All posts tagged "Jazz"
-
1.8KAdelaide FringeFringe: Spend A Night In Paris With Jazz Singer Louise Blackwell
Is an airfare to France a bit out of the question at the moment? No worries – jazz singer Louise Blackwell is bringing France to you during Fringe. Combining the beauty of French culture and jazz music, Louise and the French Set will be playing popular music from twentieth century artists including Lucienne Boyer and […]
-
1.2KEntertainmentTheatre/Music Review: Between Light
The Zephyr Quartet’s Between Light returns to the stage for the third time since its creation in 2014.
-
1.5KEntertainmentFeast Festival Review: Mama Alto – Torch Songs
Mama Alto came to the Raj House foyer with an intimate show in her unique jazz-gospel style.
-
1.4KEntertainmentOzAsia Festival Review: Haveli
This musical double-bill, jointly hosted by OzAsia and Nexus Arts, brings together two outfits with the same aim: to fuse Australian jazz with Carnatic music (the indigenous sound of Southern India).
-
2.0KLatestAdelaide Jazz Club Delivers the Cool!
The Adelaide Jazz Club's next gig on November 9th features Andy Seymour.
-
5.4KLatestAdelaide Is Finally Getting A Jazz Club
And you don't have to wait long for it - the first gig starts this week.
-
1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Little People, Big Dreams: Ella Fitzgerald, by Isabel Sánchez Vegara
One in a series of illustrated children's books about inspirational women. In this edition, the highs and lows of Ella Fitzgerald's life and singing career are brought into focus to inspire young girls.
-
1.0KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Peggy Lee: “Is That All There Is?”
Hard-core Peggy Lee fans cannot complain about repertoire choice, presentation or musical style as Brigitte Baden-Rennie performs her intelligent and entertaining homage to the great jazz/pop vocal stylist.
-
1.1KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Kind of Blue: The Miles Davis Show
This gig was one of the big successes of the 2017 Fringe, selling out, and taking both the band and Rob Pippan, by surprise. Pippan has taken a punt in reprising this performance and the punt has paid off.
-
856EntertainmentNew Orleans Comes To Adelaide At Nexus This Saturday!
Yep, you read that right! This weekend’s festivities will be of New Orleans proportions when NOLA at Nexus turns up the heat this Saturday. Chris Weber’s Banksia Orchestra will be playing old-time New Orleans Jazz, followed by Melbourne’s Horns of Leroy with one of their trademark energetic brass band performances to bring you to your […]
-
995EntertainmentJon Cleary And The Absolute Monster Gentlemen Funk Adelaide
Master of funk, blues and jazz, Jon Cleary, swept into Adelaide for one gig on Friday night at The Gov. Cleary, although originally from the UK, has made his home in New Orleans, and become very much a part of the US roots music scene. He has performed with such stalwarts such as Taj Mahal, […]
-
929Adelaide FestivalFringe Review: Bessie, Billie and Dinah
Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday and Dinah Washington are icons of jazz . All suffered the double prejudice of being female and black, during the days of segregation. And each had an influence on the next.
-
881Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
Miles Davis is one of the lynch-pins of jazz: he redefined the genre and brought together outstanding musicians, to play some of the seminal works of the contemporary canon.
-
795Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Godfrey Uke’s Tin Pan Alley
For those lucky enough to remember the roaring twenties, Godfrey Uke’s Tin Pan Alley is a stroll down memory lane. As for the rest of us, it is an insight into what we missed out on.
-
952LatestGet Your Jazz Hands Ready, James Morrison Is Heading Back To Adelaide!
For one night only international jazz great and performer extraordinaire James Morrison, together with his smoking band, will take to the stage at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
-
893LatestCelebrate Twenty One Years Of Music As Etypejazz Farewell Fans
Etypejazz bids a fond farewell to fans with a celebration concert at the Norwood Concert Hall.
-
856EntertainmentAMC’s Latest Session A Masterclass In Jazz
In a slight variation of the standard model of the Adelaide Music Collective’s bi-monthly sessions, Friday 29th May saw the event pay homage to the Jazz legends that have called South Australia home
-
701EntertainmentAMC Jazzes Things Up At This Friday’s Session
In the first event since the passing of SA Music Hall OF Fame stalwart David 'Daisy' Day, the juggernaut Adelaide Music Collective will host an array of Jazz legends, in addition to its synonymous inductions in what will be a momentous evening
-
1.1KLatestFestival Review: Fela! The Concert
A full-on Afro beat concert party of the Broadway musical, "Fela!" which traces the life of Nigerian musician and human rights activist, Fela Kuti.
-
934LatestFestival Review: Abdullah Ibrahim
Jazz pianist, Abdullah Ibrahim started playing in the 50s at the height of the popular jazz movement and recorded the first South African jazz record.
