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…
Irony is standard
August 1, 2022
The heading for this post was the title I was going to give an album of standards I planned with my trio. We were going to play ‘No-one can like Read the full article…
More from Browne – Haywood – Stevens
July 4, 2022
Recently the marvellous Mal Stanley discovered a recording that he had made of Allan Browne, Nick Haywood and myself at the 2000 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, for Jim McLeod’s Jazztrack Read the full article…
Don’t get so upset about it
June 4, 2022
Here’s a little post about feeling overwhelmed by artistic experience. I was listening to Leonard Bernstein conducting Brahms’s Haydn variations. I said to my nearest and dearest, as the seventh Read the full article…
The Penny Quartet at the Melbourne Recital Centre
May 10, 2022
6pm on a Monday evening isn’t the easiest ask for a family man like me, but some calls are louder than others. The highly-regarded and -awarded Penny Quartet was to Read the full article…