“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.
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.
The Mouth is easily one of the best live acts in Melbourne at the moment, a must-see (or rather, must-experience) performance
“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.”
” I was really working on the things that I wasn’t good at, but now I am going into another period of lots of practice over summer, when I’m not teaching and I’m going to be focusing on things that think I am good at and trying to make them better.”
The classically trained Brandee Younger impressed with her technical dexterity across the harp but also with her jazz feel and strong rhythmic sense.
