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April 19, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Archie Shepp & Jason Moran: Let My People Go
Archie Shepp & Jason Moran Let My People Go Archieball Archie Shepp is 83, a living legend of jazz, a musical polymath and star of one of the best hip-hop albums of last year too! Jason Moran, some 30+ years younger than Shepp is one of the great modern jazz pianists – steeped in tradition […]Archive
March 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Anja Lechner and François Couturier: Lontano
Anja Lechner and François Couturier Lontano ECM Records Anja Lechner is a German cellist, François Couturier is a French pianist. They both have full classical training behind them – and both learned to improvise. They combine these two distinctly different disciplines to make a type of “night” music that is so perfect for the ECM […]Archive
March 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Michel Petrucciani Trio: One Night In Karlsruhe [Live]
The Michel Petrucciani Trio One Night In Karlsruhe [Live] SWR Jazzhaus The French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani lived his life in pain. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, brittle bone disorder. He was one of the greats of jazz piano across the 1980s and early 1990s – despite being in enormous pain whenever he played. […]Archive
November 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 17 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, “Seriously Orchestral…Hits of Phil Collins”
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Seriously Orchestral…Hits of Phil Collins, 1990 I’ve always been a fan of orchestral recreations of pop music – at least a fan until I’ve heard them. They often don’t work at all, but that’s not going to stop me from trying them out first. I’m a sucker for it… Light cheese. Orchestral […]Archive
July 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Young Torless (July 9)
The Wellington Film Society’s program will soon take a break for a couple of weeks to welcome The International Film Festival but there’s still a couple of weeks of films and then the program returns in mid-August for another few months. Following on from last week’s showing of Les Cowboys we travel back in time […]Archive
March 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
NZ Festival Writers Week: The Kids Are Alright
The Kids Are Alright: Embassy Theatre Saturday, March 12 For this Writers Week event it was Sally Gardner (UK), Cornelia Funke (Germany) and Ted Dawe (NZ) in conversation with Mandy Hager, the subject: YA fiction. A thoughtful hour of panel discussion looked at how YA fiction is for everyone, not just “young adults” – and […]Archive
June 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman