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…

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…