Skip to content
  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Features
  • The Scene
    • Listening Room
    • Melbourne Jazz
    • Jazz in Sydney
    • Adelaide Jazz
    • Perth Jazz
    • Brisbane Jazz
    • Canberra Jazz
    • Darwin Jazz
    • Hobart Jazz
    • Kiwi Jazz
  • Nostalgia in Fed Square
  • About
    • Policies & Guidelines
    • How to support us
    • Contact

AustralianJazz.net

  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Features
  • The Scene
    • Listening Room
    • Melbourne Jazz
    • Jazz in Sydney
    • Adelaide Jazz
    • Perth Jazz
    • Brisbane Jazz
    • Canberra Jazz
    • Darwin Jazz
    • Hobart Jazz
    • Kiwi Jazz
  • Nostalgia in Fed Square
  • About
    • Policies & Guidelines
    • How to support us
    • Contact

Author: Nikolas Fotakis

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. Also a father, a husband, a writer, an editor, a coffee addict, a type 1 diabetic and an expat. Born and raised in Athens. Based in Melbourne. Jazz is my country.
Gigs and concerts, Perth Jazz, Reviews Posted on18 May 202518 May 2025

REVIEW: Hank Marvin, gypsy jazz guitar hero

It’s very obvious that Hank Marvin loves what he does, what he’s been doing for a lifetime, and this love spreads through his fingers, his guitar’s body, the PA system and wraps the listener in a heartwarming embrace.

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
Interviews Posted on7 May 2025

Dan Barnett’s biographical playlist

“I am lucky enough to have had a song or two written about me, but you will have to find them.”

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
Adelaide Jazz, Festivals, Gigs and concerts, Interviews Posted on30 April 20251 May 2025

Chelsea Lee: ‘I have this deep compulsion to re-create sounds and moods I hyper-fixate on’

“The creativity and exploration harmonically and rhythmically is so special within those relationships [of the Miles and Coltrane bands of the ’60s], and I wanted to emulate that same feeling with my own group.”

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
Interviews Posted on29 April 20251 May 2025

Anna Setton: ‘My music breathes the freedom and harmony of jazz’

Anna Setton is the little drop of dew sparkling on a little leaf, at 5.30 am in the morning; she is the sea breeze caressing […] Read More

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
Gigs and concerts, Interviews, Melbourne Jazz Posted on16 April 2025

Adam Rudegeair: ‘Herbie Hancock can be an inspiration to us all’

Adam Rudegeair really knows how to pay tribute to his heroes. His love for Prince led him to create the ultimate homage to the Minneapolis […] Read More

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
Melbourne Jazz, Reviews Posted on12 April 2025

Ray Pereira and Julian Wilson’s The Mouth: loud and clear

The Mouth is easily one of the best live acts in Melbourne at the moment, a must-see (or rather, must-experience) performance

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
Interviews, Melbourne Jazz Posted on14 March 202514 March 2025

Mark Morand, what is the 32 Bars in 32 Bars project?

“On a personal level, this simple play on words — 32 bars, in 32 bars — gives me both a great goal-setting framework and a quiet assurance that, after 32 songs, I will have scooped out enough of the melodic, harmonic and lyrical cacophony to settle my fevered mind.”

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
Concerts and tours, Festivals, Gigs and concerts, Interviews, One Question Posted on22 January 202515 April 2025

Q: Mary Ancheta, who are you?

“I have a great band, I feel very supported, but with that support I can also take some musical chances, it’s kind of like jumping off the edge of a cliff and knowing that someone will catch you, something will break your fall.”

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
Interviews Posted on17 January 2025

Linda Taylor: ‘I hope for open ears, open hearts, and maybe a few new fans’

“Lexicon is defined as the vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge. I took this definition and applied it to my love life quite literally. Each song title on the EP is a word the definition of which encapsulates an experience I had in my dating life.”

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
Festivals, Gigs and concerts, Interviews, Jazz in Sydney, One Question Posted on12 December 202412 December 2024

Q: Lucy Clifford, what’s the story behind your debut album, Between Spaces of Knowing?

“The album is dedicated to this idea of finding presence, and listening to one’s honest self, a process that exists most powerfully between all the motion and all the thoughts.”

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print

Posts navigation

Older posts


Tags

3 Questions Allan Browne Andrea Keller Arjun von Caemmerer Barney McAll Bird's Basement Chris McNulty Eugene Ball Gian Slater Jamie Oehlers Jazz on Lockdown Jeremy Rose JMI live John Clare John Hardaker John Shand Jonathan Zwartz Julien Wilson Kristin Berardi Mace Francis Marc Hannaford Matt McMahon melbourne international jazz festival Melbourne Recital Centre MIJF Mike Nock NJA Paris Cat Jazz Club Paul Grabowsky Peter Knight Phil Slater Sam Anning Sam Keevers Sandy Evans Saxophone Scott Tinkler Sean Foran SIMA Simon Barker Stephen Magnusson Stonnington Jazz The Jazz Lab Vince Jones voice Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues

What is Australian Jazz?

https://australianjazz.net/wp-content/uploads/Peter-Knight-Way-Out-West-04-Latest-and-Breaking.mp3


LIKE!

LIKE!

Australian Jazz: the playlist (work in progress)

Top-10

  • REVIEW: Hank Marvin, gypsy jazz guitar hero
    REVIEW: Hank Marvin, gypsy jazz guitar hero
  • Bob Lanzetti: 'In Snarky Puppy we're almost always game for the same thing'
    Bob Lanzetti: 'In Snarky Puppy we're almost always game for the same thing'
  • Mama Alto: "We can all aspire to bear a torch against the dark"
    Mama Alto: "We can all aspire to bear a torch against the dark"
  • Solomon Young: 'Being a multi-instrumentalist is really fun!'
    Solomon Young: 'Being a multi-instrumentalist is really fun!'
  • CD Release: A Glorious Uncertainty (David Ades and friends)
    CD Release: A Glorious Uncertainty (David Ades and friends)
  • Introducing Nikos Fotakis
    Introducing Nikos Fotakis
  • Zela Margossian: 'The Road is my journey to new experiences and discoveries through music'
    Zela Margossian: 'The Road is my journey to new experiences and discoveries through music'
  • Nicole Zuraitis: 'Love is beautiful and heartbreaking'
    Nicole Zuraitis: 'Love is beautiful and heartbreaking'
  • New digital project puts St Kilda's jazz heritage on the map
    New digital project puts St Kilda's jazz heritage on the map
  • Koi Kingdom: "We've had to adapt our friendship to a working relationship"
    Koi Kingdom: "We've had to adapt our friendship to a working relationship"

KEEP IN TOUCH

Enter your email address to subscribe to AustralianJazz.net and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 3,345 other subscribers


OUT OF THE PAST

May 2025
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Apr    

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

 

Australian Jazz acknowledges that we live and work on unceded Aboriginal land.

We acknowledge Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website may contain images or names of people who have since passed away.

Learn more about The Uluru Statement

Social

  • View australianjazz’s profile on Facebook
  • View australian_jazz’s profile on Instagram
© 2025 AustralianJazz.net
Powered by WordPress / Theme by Design Lab