The Jazz community of Australia and New Zealand
“The music of Temporary Blessings is very much influenced by Jazz and Improvisation, with a lot of the music from Italian and French soundtracks from that time being heavily influenced by American Jazz and improvised music, but also in the melding of styles, in classical and jazz, soul and funk.”
The 2025 Melbourne International Jazz Festival again left the jazz audience spoilt for choice, leaving them with some hard choices to make between so many international and local acts.
An adventurous guitarist, a daring performer, an inventive composer, a dedicated educator, and a champion of equity and inclusion in music and academia, Jess Green has made a name for herself, chasing that creative spark that happens when music takes a turn you didn’t see coming. Now she’s bringing that same fearless energy to her new role, as program director of the Sydney Women’s International Jazz Festival.
Great band, Zodiac. Young ones. Amazing players. High energy. Deep feeling. Fresh sound. Impressive jazz sensitivity. Seamless blend of different styles. Chill, yet intense. Definitely one to watch.
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.
The ‘Soundproof the Future’ fundraiser gig at The Night Cat was everything I love about Melbourne music and more. A veritable melting pot of musical culture and style; multi-cultural, multi-age and cumulative decades upon decades, of honed skill and talent.
Talented pianist and composer Blakey presents a set of varied tunes which are performed by a band that is not only great, but one that has at its heart, the spirit of creativity.
“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.”
