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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…
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The album is a journey
April 18, 2021
I know you own a copy of Kind of blue. Hopefully it’s placed alphabetically under D for Davis, and you’ll be able to find it quickly. Go on, locate it and Read the full article…
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They changed me
June 20, 2017
‘Morning, listeners. Bit late starting. Sorry. Here’s the Flaming Groovies.’ – Helen Garner, ‘Did he pay?’ from Postcards from Surfers As an incurable romantic, and a sort of delusional lazybones, my Read the full article…
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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…
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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…