Bruce Cale Quartet - On Fire – The Sydney Concert (1980)

13th May, 2009
Review by John McBeath

Darren Heinrich Trio - New Vintage Tunes for Hammond Organ

13th May, 2009
Review by John McBeath

James Ryan Trio - Bitter Sweet

13th May, 2009
Review by John McBeath

Barney McAll - Flashbacks

19th April, 2009
Review by Mark F. Turner

Greg Coffin Trio - It’s Neither Either Or. It’s Both And.

19th January, 2009
Review by John McBeath

Gerard Masters Trio - Pendulum

14th October, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Murphy’s Law - Tanuki’s Revenge

7th October, 2008
Review by John McBeath

West End Composers Collective - Driving Hat

1st October, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Kidney

1st October, 2008
Review by John McBeath

James Le Fevre Quintet - Point A

8th September, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Tina Harrod - Worksongs

25th August, 2008
Review by John McBeath and John Shand

Sally Ford - Births, Deaths & Marriages

19th August, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Logic? - Native Strut

3rd August, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Andrew Robson Trio - Radiola

26th July, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Wanderlust - When in Rome

7th July, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Richard Maegraith Band - Free Running

7th July, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Oehlers, Grabowsky and Beck - Lost And Found

30th June, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Tim Stevens Trio - Mickets

30th June, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Julien Wilson Trio - Sound Vault

30th June, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Bunbury International Jazz Festival

26th May, 2008
Review by Peter Kenyon

Joe Chindamo - Duende: The Romantic Project

17th March, 2008
Review by John McBeath

The Vampires - South Coasting

12th March, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Matt Keegan Trio - Tone Imagination

27th February, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Wangaratta Panorama

30th June, 2009

We are approaching the 20th anniversary of the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues. I have reviewed every year but one, writing at first for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, then in more recent times for the SIMA website. To mark this extraordinary anniversary, SIMA have assembled below all the Wangaratta reviews I have done for them...

Tour Reviews

3rd June, 2009

Australia has recently played host to some of the most creative musicians playing jazz-based music. Here are some responses to concerts held in Melbourne and Sydney.

Creative Flight of a "Fabulous Flamingo"

13th May, 2009

Looking back pianist and composer Mike Nock describes himself as a “bit of a wild kid.” At the age of 16 he pawned his saxophone and travelled from his New Zealand hometown of Nguarawahia to Wellington. Once there, he played piano in a Maori/Pakeha...

Mike Nock honoured at Bells

23rd April, 2009

Pianist, composer, educator and jazz icon Mike Nock was honoured this evening at the 2009 Australian Jazz "Bell" Awards with induction into the Graeme Bell Hall of Fame.

Barney McAll In New York

19th April, 2009

Composer and pianist Barney McAll is a leading light of the new Brooklyn—the New York borough that is the fount of much that is new in jazz. The spectrum of McAll's music is wide, ranging from mood-setting jazz ensemble recordings to electronica. But it all comes down to the notes, and their relation to each other...