TO HELL AND BACK, THE BEAT GOES ON
INTERVIEW / STONNINGTON JAZZ 2010 Before his quintet ushers the Stonnington Jazz audience into A Season In Hell, Allan Browne tells ROGER MITCHELL of his personal journey to the brink ALLAN Browne has...
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ALLAN BROWNE CELEBRATES 50 YEARS IN JAZZ at Chapel Off Chapel Two sets, two eras. Allan Browne took us back in time with his favourite in jazz combinations, the trio. Then, with his quintet and his...
View ArticleUNE SAISON EN ENFER — ALLAN BROWNE QUINTET
CD REVIEW (A SEASON IN HELL) 4 stars HELL has never been this appealing. In its second interpretative journey into the works of Arthur Rimbaud — after The Drunken Boat — the quintet takes as...
View ArticleWYNTON MARSALIS SENDS HIS APOLOGIES
Ausjazz blog previews Stonnington Jazz 2011 — May 19 to May 29 The days are suddenly much colder and the nights have that stay-at-home chill. Many of us are suffering from sore throats, persistent...
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Allan Browne Quintet and Trio, Chapel Off Chapel, May 22, Stonnington Jazz 2011 Allan Browne drums, Eugene Ball trumpet, Phil Noy saxophone, Geoff Hughes guitar, Nick Haywood bass, Marc Hannaford piano...
View ArticleLIVE AT BENNETTS LANE, BUT 15 YEARS IN THE MAKING
GIG: CD Launch at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne, Tuesday, November 15, 8.30pm Rob Burke plays Bennetts Lane When Robert Burke, Tony Gould, Nick Haywood and Tony Floyd launch their album Live At...
View Article1234 — NICK HAYWOOD QUARTET
CD REVIEW 3.5 stars (but it’s really a 3.8 or 3.9) Bassist Nick Haywood leads this superb quartet from behind, with a clear commitment to collaboration and spontaneity. The group is well chosen....
View ArticleISN’T IT GRAND, NORWEGIAN BAND
REVIEW Ausjazz blog picks some highlights from the 2012 Melbourne International Jazz Festival: A festival highlight: Haaken Mjasset Johansen with Motif from Norway. All up, Ausjazz went to all or part...
View ArticleSNEAK PREVIEW: LYNCH MOB AT UPTOWN
Duelling guitars: Ren Walters and Steve Magnusson GIG Yes, it hasn’t happened yet, but there are already pictures circulating. In a few hours, at 6.30pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012, Uptown Jazz Cafe...
View ArticleNOT TO MENTION …
___________ 12. MANY OTHER FANTASTIC PERFORMERS Ausjazz blog has not exhausted the myriad reasons why you should not miss the opportunity to be at all or part of Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival...
View ArticleFIRST A DRUNKEN BOAT, THEN PIANO ROMANCE
Allan Browne plays Uptown Jazz Cafe SNAP PREVIEWS: MIJF CLUB SESSIONS Monday 2 June 2014 BENNETTS LANE 7pm: Allan Browne Quintet performs The Drunken Boat, a suite exploring Rimbaud’s poem about a...
View ArticleEVERY FACE TELLS A STORY
Attentive Allan Browne. PICTORIAL UPDATE MIJF Club Session at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club 7pm Monday 2 June: Allan Browne Quintet performs The Drunken Boat I had not heard The Drunken Boat performed live,...
View ArticleWANGARATTA 2017: JAM-PACKED JAZZ
Sure to be a highlight: Jen Shyu Image: Steven Schreiber PREVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, November 3 – 5, 2017 The 28th Wangaratta Festival of Jazz...
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