New Zealand Jazz Blogs
Syndicated items from several NZ jazz blogs
16 June 2013 - John Fenton - Jazz Local 32
Tim Jago
This band shakes all conceptions in the known musical universe and they do it by pillaging pieces of reality and cunningly re-assembling them into new and abstract forms. They are as brilliant as they are disarming. Getting under your skin with outrageous banter and constantly...
14 June 2013 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
Kevin Haines has been a bass playing fixture on Auckland's jazz scene for many decades . . . but only in recent years has he consistently made his mark in the recording studio.
Two albums with drummer Ron Samsom and guitarist Dixon Nacey (the very good Oxide and even ...
Source: THE FAMOUS...
13 June 2013 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
The plan would have been timely: a
concert acknowledging the half century he'd known and played in bands
with drummer Frank Gibson. But then everything changed.
“They gave me a year, that was a year
ago,” says 66-year old keyboard player and jazz genius McNabb about
the cancer diagnosis...
12 June 2013 - John Fenton - Jazz Local 32
Chelsea has only just graduated from the Auckland University Jazz School but she is already somewhat of a veteran performer about town. I often spot her name in gig notifications and I have seen her in the role of leader at the CJC (Creative Jazz Club) at least three times. Chelsea is...
6 June 2013 - John Fenton - Jazz Local 32
We don’t get many offshore Jazz pianists visiting New Zealand, but we have seen quite a few over recent weeks. This particular gig comes hot on the heals of hearing Sean Wayland appearing as featured guest artist with the marvellous Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra. Sean had impressed me...
5 June 2013 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
If you got togther any group of contemporary jazz drummers -- "a violence of drummers" perhaps? -- it would be the rare figure in their midst who didn't name Jack DeJohnette among their top five influences.
Born in August 1942, DeJohnette has enjoyed a career which spanned what was called the avant...
3 June 2013 - John Fenton - Jazz Local 32
Travelling with an 18 piece jazz orchestra is an exercise in logistics that would confound military experts. Luckily this herculean task was assigned to Jazz musicians who have no idea about what is possible and impossible. As they have done for the past 10 years the Jazzgroove...
28 May 2013 - John Fenton - Jazz Local 32
When the CJC (Creative Jazz Club) posted information about their Winter International Series, the first group up was the ‘Dilworths’. I quickly scanned the information and zeroed in on the two Kiwi band members. Not just because they are Kiwi’s but because they are...
27 May 2013 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
In a recent conversation with keyboard player Murray McNabb and drummer Frank Gibson -- who have played together for 50 years and founded the seminal New Zealand jazz bands Dr Tree and Space Case -- the topic turned to the problems for younger players today.
Not enough live work...
25 May 2013 - John Fenton - Jazz Local 32
The name ‘Rosie & The Riveters’ grabbed my attention immediately as I come from an activist family. The derivation goes back to WW2 when women had to work on the production lines while their men were away fighting. When the men returned after the war they were expected to...