In these short interviews I ask musicians and composers, from various backgrounds, the same 3 simple questions about music. 1. Why do you have music in your life? 2. How do you make music? 3. What excites you musically right now?
“The music we’re playing is heavily funky, fast and at times frenetic. If I had to bring someone in I would probably choose either Freddie Hubbard or Hiromi Uehara.”
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Jazz Music Institute (JMI) is a higher education provider based in Brisbane, Australia delivering accredited courses in music specialising in jazz performance. JMI also runs […] Read More
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In these short interviews I ask musicians and composers, from various backgrounds, the same 3 simple questions about music. 1. Why do you have music in your life? 2. How do you make music? 3. What excites you musically right now?
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” I was having a lesson with the great Caroline Henbest, preparing Rebecca Clarke’s ‘Sonata for Viola and Piano’. It was the first time I had ever played a solo viola work by a woman composer, and I felt so connected with her composition. Everything about this work spoke to me. I just had this crazy epiphany, that I didn’t want to play the music anymore, I wanted to speak about it!”
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The club may be closed, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the JMI LIVE gigs are still going ahead online
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Pavlidis’ approach to improvisation is equal parts spontaneity and structure.
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Now more than ever, we need the healing power of music; we need the community building experience of live music performance to cope with the new normal we are trying to adapt to. Self – isolation, quarantine, lockdown, physical distancing – you name it, it will affect our lives for longer than it actually lasts.
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“Portuguese music is there not because I put it there intentionally, but because I’m from Portugal; then I have a little of American folk, because my dad used to listen to a lot of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell; then I went on my own and I started listening to my own music and I started finding other things, getting more into the jazz world, and I mean instrumental jazz. Now I’m a bit far away from jazz, but still all the things that I listen to during my life are there.”
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Andrea Keller’s piano is central to her Transients trios, a thing of wonder that binds together these conversations with her fellow musicians.
