Joe ‘Bebop’ Lane sings ‘Body and Soul’

In this great ‘home video’ from the collection of drummer Barry Woods, Joe ‘BeBop’ Lane lets rip with his inimitable raw and wild vocal improvisations on ‘Body and Soul’ . Playing with him are Alan Turnbull on drums, Evan Lonhing on the keyboard, Rolf Stuube on bass, Freddie Hill on trumpet, Ken James on tenor sax and Freddy Wilson on baritone sax.

Gest8 – The Emperor’s Old Clothes

Gest8 perform Tony Gorman’s piece ‘The Emperor’s Old Clothes’, at the SIMA Sound Lounge in Sydney in 2008. Featuring Sandy Evans on soprano saxophone, Phil Slater on trumpet, Carl Dewhurst on guitar, Steve Elphick on bass, Paul Cutlan on bass clarinet, Satsuki Odamura on koto, and Greg White on computers and electronics.

MIJF – Celebrating lineage

We may not be used to seeing Tortoni ‘front and centre’ at the MIJF but he’s played a role consistently for over a decade now. At the festival launch, he revealed what drives him, saying (twice) that he’s interested in the ‘pairing of jazz royalty with the voices of a rising generation’.