John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

January 7, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive
January 1, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Venue 505, December 17 Half English, half Australian and based in New York, Joanna Wallfisch is also something of hybrid musically. The songs she writes have elements of pop, art music, folk and jazz, her lyrics, in Blakeian terms, combine innocence and experience, and the two instruments she plays could…

December 27, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Foundry 616, December 10 It wasn’t carols, but it could have been jazz for Christmas. Just when the credit card’s groaning and the heat’s oppressive, along comes a concert to restore some joie de vivre. Unlike the Greeks, who invented tragedy before coming up with the antidote of comedy, jazz’s…