The 6×3 notes

January 19, 2015

Dear reader, I wrote these notes for the Origin re-release of Browne, Costello & Grabowsky’s landmark album 6×3. I submitted them and asked to see the proofs before they were Read the full article…

Genesis of identity in Australian improvised music

December 1, 2014

Paper presented at ‘The charisma of dissonance: The 37th international conference of The Musicological Society of Australia,’ 1 December 2014. The thing with jazz, as we’re all told, is to Read the full article…

The death of Isabella Dunn Sangster

November 28, 2013

John Sangster (1928-1995) was a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose origins in the traditional jazz community in Melbourne during the 1940s were later effectively eclipsed by his involvement in a wide Read the full article…