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Article: Live Review

Irene Atman at the Slide Bar, Sydney, Australia

by Barry O'Sullivan
May 17, 2008

Irene AtmanSlide BarSydney, AustraliaApril 15, 2008Slide Bar, Oxford Street is a difficult venue for a jazz vocalist. Blessed with a hi- tech sound system but hindered by a somewhat small and an almost too close stage to audience set up , it is a venue that for the inexperienced could prove ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

New Zealand: A New Destination For Improvised Music?

by Jay Collins
December 29, 2003

When one thinks of spots for progressive freely improvised music, New Zealand is hardly the first to spring to mind. But, believe it or not, the country has seen a recent upsurge and considerable growth in the scene, thanks to a small number of dedicated souls in the capital city of Wellington. This collective of independent ...

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Article: Album Review

Blume/Denley/Dorner/Mattos/Wachsmann: Lines In Australia

by Mark Corroto
September 2, 2002

If I were to tell you that the free Improvisational troupe known as Lines wholly captures the essence of the country on Lines In Australia, I’d be lying. Nothing the quintet does places them in, or downunder. But then again not much of free form music has textbook or geographical context. This recording, ...

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Article: Album Review

Norbert Stein: Pata Masters - Live In Australia

by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 2002

A resident of Cologne, Germany - saxophonist/bandleader Norbert Stein’s microcosmic view of nineteenth century scientist, Dr. Faustroll’s “Pata” physics intimates a metaphorical musical translation. Whereas the crux of the matter pertains to the band’s singular characteristics! While Stein serves as the composer and tenor saxophonist, the band is a multitasking machine, as the soloists ...

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Article: Album Review

The Houdini's: The Best of the Houdini's: Live at Kiama Jazz Festival Australia

by Robert Spencer
July 1, 1999

The Houdini's are in masterful form for this live date from the Kiama Jazz Festival in Australia. They start the proceedings off with a bang with the lively “Headlines," by pianist Edwin Hoorweg. After a high-spirited unison head, tenor man Barend Middelhoff rips through a burning solo; once the band returns to the twisty head, the ...

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Article: Album Review

Espoo Big Band: Live in Australia / Plays Carla Bley

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 1999

Here are three discs (more like two and one–half, actually) by Finland’s foremost big band, Espoo, one recorded in 1993 with guest conductor Carla Bley, the others last year during an Australian tour. Also sitting in on the earlier session is the well–known American bassist Steve Swallow. On the Jazz continuum, Espoo is definitely in the ...

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Frank Sinatra with the Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959

by Joel Roberts
July 1, 1997

During his heyday at Capitol in the 1950s, when he recorded his definitive hard-swinging albums with big bands led by Nelson Riddle and Billy May, and indeed throughout most of his long career, Frank Sinatra has seldom appeared and almost never recorded with just a small band backing. This never-before-released live recording, just ...