It’s quite amazing how musicians can perform the one song is so many different ways. In the show for Sunday May 27, we’re going to be looking at one song, recorded by literally hundreds of musicians, and listening to how …
Read moreBrothers
Tonught’s show is going to be featuring musical brothers. With a bit of cheating. There’quite a few musical families out there, and we certainly enjoy the fruits of their labours. The Marsalis family in the US, for one, and of …
Read moreFruity Jazz
Tonight we played music with references to fruit. Charlie Parker’s Scrapple From The Apple, for instance, and a version of Tangerine by Ray Brown with John Pizzarelli. We stretched the friendship just a tad with Art Pepper Red Pepper Blues, …
Read moreBye Bye Empire
Tonight was the last night for the Empire in its current guise. Thje music room is being closed down for renovations; when it reopens, and with what sort of agenda, is anybody’s guess. The Wednesday jams move to the Bridge …
Read moreMelbourne Done
Been there, done that. Had a great time, but spent way too much time doing photography stuff and nowhere near enough time on music stuff. Such is life. A couple of interesting observations from the trip: Melbourne taxi drivers are …
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