Re-listening
February 15, 2025
I wrote already about a plan I have dreamed up to release a third album of Browne – Haywood – Stevens music. I have twenty-five recordings of gigs we did, Read the full article…
Twenty years of the trio
June 24, 2023
Three years ago my PhD reached its double-decade, and that felt like a bit of a moment. (I still think it reads fairly well, and scholarship has not moved so Read the full article…
We’re getting the band back together
January 18, 2023
Chris Lawson said, ‘I thought the session was really good! But when you left the studio, you looked a bit down.’ He was probably right; I wasn’t sure as I Read the full article…
Australian music needs you
April 14, 2022
There is a marvellous essay at the end of Martin Williams’s Jazz Changes entitled ‘Recognition, Prestige and Respect: They’re Academic Questions’. In it, Mr Williams argues that the centrality of composers Read the full article…
One hundred more
November 10, 2020
Following on from my last post, I write to complete the story of the quarantunes. After a hiatus of almost a fortnight, in which I thought I’d finished, I recommenced Read the full article…