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"Check Your Pulse" Short Documentary Series Released

"Check Your Pulse" Short Documentary Series Released

Check Your Pulse is the full documentary combining the 3 shorter documentaries that give an insight into the music of the Lisa Young Quartet, featuring Lisa Young voice/konnakol, Stephen Magnusson guitar, Ben Robertson double bass and Dave Beck drums/cajon. The documentary discusses the process of making of the quartet's 2012 release The Eternal Pulse, which uses ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Leigh Carriage: Get Out Of Town/Mandarin Skyline

Read "Leigh Carriage: Get Out Of Town/Mandarin Skyline" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

After just one studio album in the previous eight years--Until (Self Produced, 2004)--Australian singer/composer Leigh Carriage has released not one but two albums in less than a year, showcasing different sides of her musical personality--the interpreter of standards/torch songs, and the songwriter. Lismore, NSW-based Carriage is Head of Vocal Studies at Southern Cross University, and there's ...

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Article: Album Review

Albare: The Road Ahead

Read "The Road Ahead" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Moroccan born guitarist Albere (Albert Dadon) emigrated to Australia at the age of 27 and blossomed into a celebrated jazz guitarist who also directs the Melbourne Jazz Festival amid other jazz-related endeavors. Here, he focuses on melodic textures via a breezy gait, employing a synth guitar and six-string electric while exhibiting an unhurried or building-block approach ...

News: Festival

International Music At Manly Jazz Festival

The Manly Jazz Festival is a major community and tourism event on the Australian annual jazz calendar and takes place in the heart of Manly along the Manly Corso and the picturesque Manly Beachfront this year on the 5th, 6th and 7th October. Up to 45,000 jazz enthusiasts from Sydney and NSW, interstate and overseas come ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Australian Allure: The Music Of Gian Slater And Christopher Hale

Read "Australian Allure: The Music Of Gian Slater And Christopher Hale" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Trying to define or pigeonhole the music and artistry of vocalist Gian Slater and bassist Christopher Hale is an exercise in futility; in fact, reductive tags like “vocalist" and “bassist" don't even really do them justice. Slater and Hale have each managed to transcend the normal parameters of their chosen instrument(s), reaching a place where they ...

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Article: Album Review

Nicola Milan: Forbidden Moments

Read "Forbidden Moments" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

It should be no wonder that Australia produces musicians whose art reflects a broad blend of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Perth native Nicola Milan refers to the genre to which her brand of music belongs, Australasian jazz, and her own pedigree as Welsh/Anglo-Indian. That is every bit as exotic and humidly appealing as the self-description ...

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News: Recording

Pianist Tal Cohen Releases Modern Classic With New Album "Yellow Sticker"

After more than eighteen months of writing, one would think pianist Tal Cohen was being too cautious in recording his new album, Yellow Sticker. But the overtime spent on polishing every arrangement on the record has given listeners a sparkling jewel of a reward, a sublime, breathtaking effort that is a modern classic. Touring with the ...

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Article: Album Review

Lisa Young Quartet: The Eternal Pulse

Read "The Eternal Pulse" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Melbourne jazz singer Lisa Young has been a mainstay of the Australian jazz scene for over two decades, whether leading quartets or as a member of Coco's Lunch, the award winning a cappella group she co-founded in the mid-1990s. The Eternal Pulse--her fourth album as leader--marries konnakol with Young's personal take on vocal improvisation in an ...

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News: Festival

Dubbo Jazz Festival 2013

Dubbo is a thriving regional city and services a huge geographical area of one third of NSW. The city is ideally located is at the intersection of major routes for road, rail and air transport in the Central West of NSW, about 400 Km from Sydney. The city’s population exceeds 41,000, with a catchment population in ...

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News: Recording

New CD "Doin’ The Charleston" By Greg Poppleton And The Bakelite Broadcasters

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 ...


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