Category: Features – Archive

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…

October 16, 2015 / Features - Archive

Purists loathe him, and the feeling, it seems, is mutual. John McLaughlin calls purists “the bane of the world”, and has variously upset the jazz ones by being too rocky, the fusion ones by being too Indian and the Indian ones by being too western. Meanwhile he has left a…

August 19, 2015 / Features - Archive

Bruce Cale does not just live in Katoomba, he plays the Mountains in his music. The connection, after all, could not be deeper. He was born in Leura and grew up in Katoomba where, as a child, he took violin lessons above a shop on the main street – a…