Music of grief: Janacek, Ellington, Liszt, Brahms, et al

April 2, 2023

This paper was written all the way back in 1996 and delivered on April 18 of that year. I was in the second year of a Master of Music Performance 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…

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…