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Jazz In Conversation – Kate Wadey

Jazz In Conversation – Kate Wadey

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Each Friday, Barry O’Sullivan invites a studio guest onto Friday’s A Jazz Hour at noon. This week’s guest is jazz songstress and composer, and Fine Music Sydney Weatherley Scholar, Kate Wadey.

CD Review – Forever Like This

CD Review – Forever Like This

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Wadey is songwriter and vocalist on an album of delightful original compositions. From the first track, If Only, the album’s tone is set to capture the affinity between the instrumentalist’s music and Wadey’s voice.

Jazz In Conversation: Julian Curwin

Jazz In Conversation: Julian Curwin

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Friday 29th - Each Friday, Barry O’Sullivan invites a studio guest onto Friday’s A Jazz Hour at noon. This week’s guest is Australian guitarist and composer Julian Curwin. His recent release is Midnight Lullaby is a blend of jazz, classical film music and Latin sound, with a stellar ensemble.

CD Review – Smaller Worlds

CD Review – Smaller Worlds

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Smaller Worlds has songs written at various times over the past ten years by Golden. While most of it was not composed for solo piano, throughout the first year of the pandemic and the ensuing isolation, Golden found all these chosen songs evolved to work best for him as solo pieces.

CD Review – Isolation Emancipation

CD Review – Isolation Emancipation

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Mace Francis employs a hint of Nelson Riddle, a tilt to Count Basie, definitively some Duke Ellington, a splash of “cool school” Gerry Mulligan, a little of Thad Jones, and a hint of Charles Mingus. But, mostly it’s just Mace’s music to make you happy.

CD Review – Somnambience

CD Review – Somnambience

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Jeremy Sawkins’ fifth release as a leader has delivered an album that doesn’t require too much analysis. Being a solo project on nylon-string guitar, it features some beautiful melodies and chords in counterpoint, very minimal improvisation, and a lot of space to create a very pleasing musical ambiance.

Jazz In Conversation

Jazz In Conversation

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Each Friday, Barry O’Sullivan invites a studio guest onto Friday’s A Jazz Hour at noon. This week Barry welcomes Amy Curl, CEO of the Sydney Improvised Music Association. Listen out as she talks about her music, SIMA and managing the current SIMA Summer Festival.

CD Review – The River Tethys

CD Review – The River Tethys

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Wilcock has enormous skill and fluid versatility at the piano as well as on composition thus making this session an exciting (even though at times a blistering) summit of equals. Throughout, there is highly creative intergalactic listening to be had here, which was particularly enjoyable on the vinyl I played.

Jazz In Conversation

Jazz In Conversation

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Each Friday at noon, Barry O’Sullivan invites a studio guest onto A Jazz Hour, this week his guest is Australian trumpeter Eamon Dilworth.

Jazz In Conversation

Jazz In Conversation

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Each Friday at noon, Barry O’Sullivan invites a studio guest onto A Jazz Hour. This week‘s guest is Australian pianist, composer and conductor of classical music, film scores and jazz, Mark Isaacs.

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