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New CD "Doin’ The Charleston" By Greg Poppleton And The Bakelite Broadcasters
With the same maverick spirit that produced The Phantom Dancer (the sold-out first CD and the award-winning, national community radio show), Doin' The Charleston, is the long-awaited second album from Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters “Captures that decade's [1920] vocal style to perfection," Kevin Jones, 102.5FM Fine Music Sydney, formerly jazz critic for The Australian ...
Take Five With Lisa Young
by AAJ Staff
Meet Lisa Young:Lisa Young is on a constant voyage of exploration and creation of vocal works using a diverse vocal language resonating from a personal sound bank aesthetic built over many years as an improvising singer.She performs and records with her jazz quartet, and with vocal and percussion group Coco's Lunch. Her ...
Take Five With Paul Zaborac
by AAJ Staff
Meet Paul Zaborac:Paul Zaborac is a versatile saxophonist, composer, and educator. Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1987, he began studying the saxophone at the age of 11. After receiving a bachelor degree in music education from Simpson College (2010), he proceeded to obtain a master of music degree in saxophone performance at the ...
Jeremy Woolhouse: The Persistence of Dreaming
by Dan Bilawsky
Dreams and reality have an odd relationship that's neither completely antagonistic nor complementary; either one can influence the other, as thoughts bleed across different worlds in obvious or subtle fashion, but they exist in separate realms. Minute-to-minute, real life actualities and imagined, in-the-mind occurrences are inextricably linked, yet permanently separated by an impassable divide, and this ...
Tim Nikolsky: Australian Jazz Real Book
by Ian Patterson
Australian Jazz Real Book Tim Nikolsky 662 pages ISBN: 979-0-9009613-5-8 Australian Jazz Real Book 2013 It's been five years in the making, but finally, Melbourne guitarist Tim Nikolsky's one-man crusade to assemble an Australian Jazz Real Book has succeeded. In fact, as Nikolsky related ...
Jon Anderson Takes Solo Show To Australia And New Zealand For First Time Ever!
Asheville, NC - Music fans 'down under' are buzzing with excitement about the upcoming solo tour of Australia and New Zealand by legendary vocalist Jon Anderson, YES's singer/songwriter for 35 years along with his successful work with Vangelis, Kitaro, and Milton Nascimento. This will be the very first time Jon has performed solo in either country. ...
The Lisa Young Quartet lauches "The Eternal Pulse" Official Music Video in celebration of International Women's Day
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Lisa Young Quartet, launches it’s official music video release, featuring the single “Tha Thin Tha" (Ta Din Ta) from their new album The Eternal Pulse. Filmed on a winter’s day at Ferdydurke in Melbourne, director Tabata Piccinelli’s vision was to weave the creation of the Eternal Pulse album artwork by ...
Marialy Pacheco: Spaces Within
by Ian Patterson
Spaces Within is Cuban pianist Marialy Pacheco's first trio CD since making Brisbane, Australia her home in 2009, though it's her fourth overall. It follows Songs That I Love (Pinnacle Records, 2011), an impressive solo outing where Pacheco displayed all the strengths that won her the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition award in 2012. As ...
Jeremy Woolhouse: The Persistence of Dreaming
by Dan McClenaghan
The translation of melancholy into music can be a beautiful thing in any genre. Jazz, with its focus, on improvisation (to varying degrees), allows an artist to explore the nuances of mood. A framework that gives way to in-the-moment rumination or flights of fancy can make for the most evocative of sounds.Melbourne, Australia-based pianist ...
Trichotomy: Fact Finding Mission
by Bruce Lindsay
So what is a “Fact Finding Mission"? It might be a pretty dull trip to gather data; it may be a euphemism for something a little more sordid. If it's being undertaken by Australian piano trio Trichotomy, then it's a whole heap of musical fun, for this particular Fact Finding Mission is the band's fifth album: ...
