Reverent, loyal, and very well arranged, “Needle In The Hay” is for Elliot Smith fans and newbies alike
In 1968 a relatively unknown Irish singer-songwriter walked into a recording studio in New York, with a bunch of session musicians, few of whom he knew, and produced one of the greatest albums of all time. The singer was Van Morrison, and the album was Astral Weeks.
In 1956, acclaimed jazz vocalist Ella Fitzerald did a season at Zardi’s Jazzland in Los Angeles. On her final night, the entire show was recorded for an album release which never happened.
The Zephyr Quartet’s Between Light returns to the stage for the third time since its creation in 2014.
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).
This was a terrific, value-for-money show, presented with tightness, energy and passion.
The New Cabal is everything jazz should be and if you’re a regular at the wonderfully eclectic La Bohème, you most certainly should have heard of them!