Category: Features – Archive

June 25, 2016 / Features - Archive

He always thought differently. At high school he wrote “Mr Weird” on his clarinet case. No one argued. Wayne Shorter’s verbalised thoughts come out like his saxophone lines: squalls of rapid–fire ideas, some cryptic asides, and big pools of lucid silence while he lets what he’s said sink in. His…

March 9, 2016 / Features - Archive

Bryce Rohde and Jack Brokensha arrived in Canada in 1953 filled with optimism about pursuing their musical careers in the Americas. The first music they heard, however, was the sound of a cell door slamming, having been jailed for landing with neither funds nor means of support. They were bailed…

January 15, 2016 / Features - Archive

In late February Stu Hunter will try making music on destroyed guns. By comparison his Sydney Festival premiere of The Migration looks quite conventional, being performed by Hunter and his dream team on piano, horns, guitar, bass and drums. But in fact this concert is just as improbable in its…