Guitarist Sam McAuliffe talks new improv release
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Sam McAuliffe may be the freshest muso on the Hobart scene. He kicked off 2017 with a move to the island […]
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Taking a breath with Dan O’Connor
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE For Dan O’Connor, the function of a musician’s breath is as significant as the sound it produces through the instrument. In […]
Blobs and the Death of Classical Music
BY BENJAMIN MARTIN Blobs, and the death of classical music. Minus ‘blobs’, it’s a phrase often repeated nowadays. However, determining why exactly it might […]
Perspectives on Improvisation: Peter Evans
BY SAMUEL COTTELL Sitting in a café amidst a busy street in the leafy suburb of Crows Nest, in Sydney’s Northern Suburbs, I caught […]
We’re playing classical music all wrong…
BY CLIVE BROWN, Professor of Applied Musicology at University of Leeds After a very drawn out and fraught construction, the Philharmonie de Paris is finally […]
Key to Jazz: Tom Vincent
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If there’s one style that’s stayed timelessly cool since it first hit the clubs, it’s gotta be jazz. Australian pianist and composer […]