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Short Takes Australia<br />
Jazz Festivals continue through the southern warm weather, with the<br />
Jazzgroove Summer Festival fom 1/17-1/20 in various venues in Sydney’s<br />
central suburb of Surry Hills, and this year’s kinetic Jazz Festival in the nearby<br />
suburb of Enmore from 1/22-1/27 exploring more exotic styles and headlining<br />
flute master Kaoru Watanabe, while a range of top pianists enjoyed the<br />
beautiful Stuart piano on site.....the NSW country town of Forbes hosted the<br />
67th Australian Jazz Convention from as always 12/26-12/31 to delight the traditional<br />
fans.....recently introduced jazz venue The Dome Bar, in inner Sydney’s<br />
Strawberry Hills, now has drummer Andrew Dickeson controlling the talent<br />
selection each Wednesday and Thursday and tasting nice success, while close<br />
by the 505 in Cleveland Street presents top talent to good audiences, and the<br />
Sydney Improvised Music Association also mounts well-attended concerts in<br />
the same street twice weekly – three regular jazz venues in about four blocks.....<br />
two world-established south Australian singers home for quick visits and<br />
one great concert each in Adelaide – Anita Wardell, based for some years in<br />
London, England, and Jo Lawry, now working in NYC.....another internationally<br />
successful Sydney-based trio, the Necks played Melbourne’s Corner Hotel<br />
1/29-30,31 to strong acclaim.....11/27 marked the twentieth anniversary for<br />
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club in Melbourne, while the Melbourne Jazz Cooperative<br />
began regular Sunday concerts at the venue in January 1983 which continue<br />
to the present, regardless of the State Government’s 2013 decision to cut the<br />
group’s funding completely.....Melbourne trumpeter Peter Knight selected to<br />
take over artistic control of the Australian Art Orchestra, succeeding pianist Paul<br />
Grabowsky, who has worked for twenty years to bring the AAO to its present<br />
position of excellence and success.....a young German-born alto saxophonist<br />
based in Switzerland was brought to Australia to teach a summer course in the<br />
country centre of Armidale in NSW, and has been making a national tour with<br />
the three other members of the Andreas Bohlen Quartet, Sebastian Bohlen<br />
guitar, Jakob Dreyer bass and Severin Rauch drums.....Australian pianist/<br />
composer Barney McAll, for some years based in NYC, played Bennetts Lane<br />
on 1/20 with Frank di Sario bass and Danny Fischer drums during a home<br />
visit.....with the assistance of the Musicians Union and their recently acquired<br />
partner Eastside FM Radio, the NSW Jazz Action Society is presenting later<br />
this month a special concert by the Evan Lohning Jazz Orchestra with guest<br />
vocalist Sue Gai-Dowling and as Master of Ceremonies, the ailing drummer/band<br />
leader John Pochee,.....Ulverstone Tasmania has a new venue The<br />
Wharf which featured Launceston singer Denise Sam and her quartet 2/8.<br />
Alwyn and Laurie Lewis<br />
36 | CadenCe Magazine | april May June 2013
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