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Posts Tagged Norman Meehan

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February 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

UNWIND Chisholm/Meehan/Dyne: Orange

UNWIND: Chisholm/Meehan/Dyne  Orange  Rattle  I first heard Hayden Chisholm (saxophones) – well at least first really took notice on the glorious collaborative album Small Holes In The Silence featuring Hannah Griffin’s voice and Norman Meehan’s piano. The music was sparse, the lyrics drawn from famous New Zealand poems. Griffin and Meehan have an ongoing project in collaboration with Bill Manhire. Chisholm was the silent star of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bass, Chisholm/Meehan/Dyne: Orange, Hayden Chisholm, Instrumental, Jazz, Kiwi, Norman Meehan, NZ, Orange, Paul Dyne, Piano, Rattle, Saxophone, UNWIND Chishom/Meehan/Dyne: Orange, UNWIND: Chisholm/Meehan/Dyne, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 130 – Bill Manhire

Welcome to episode 130 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. It’s Poetry Day! So I had a chat with Bill Manhire. We had in fact planned this for last year’s Poetry Day but I dropped the ball I guess, got behind, I can’t quite remember…but I do know I’ve […]
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August 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Norman Meehan: New Zealand Jazz Life

New Zealand Jazz Life Norman Meehan Victoria University Press Norman Meehan – an amazing musician in his own right, working, largely in and around jazz – is also an accomplished writer and educator. And his books, to date, have focussed around conversations. But where previously, it was all conversations with one person for a published […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Anthony Donaldson, Book, Book Review, Brian Smith, Jazz, Jeff Henderson, Kim Patterson, Kiwi, Mike Nock, Nathan Haines, New Zealand, New Zealand Jazz, New Zealand Jazz Life, Norman Meehan, Norman Meehan: New Zealand Jazz Life, NZ, VUP ·

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July 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 71 – Norman Meehan

Welcome to episode 71 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with musician, author, critic and educator Norman Meehan. I’ve been a fan of Norman Meehan’s writing and music for some time – I loved his album, Modigliani and […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Author, Bill Manhire, Chat, Collaboration, Composer, Concert FM, Conversation, Critic, Don McGlashan, Educator, ep.71, Episode Seventy-One, Hannah Griffin, http://normanmeehan.co.nz/, Interview, Jazz, Kiwi, Le Petite Chocolat, Mike Nock, Music, Musician, Norman Meehan, NZ, Paul Bley, Piano, Podcast, Radio, Radio New Zealand Concert, Reviewer, RNZ, Simon Sweetman, Songwriter, Songwriting, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 70 - Rodger Fox, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 71, T Leaf T, Teacher, Tutor, Writer, Yeastie Boys ·

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April 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Being There: My Liner Notes for ‘Making Baby Float’

I was there. Watching the concert. And I couldn’t believe how good it was – now in some sense I had a tip-off. I knew Hannah Griffin was a great singer, I knew Norman Meehan was a thoughtful and gifted musician/arranger/composer and I knew the source material was top-shelf. The other names in the band […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Being There, Being There: My Liner Notes for 'Making Baby Float', Bill Manhire, Classical, Concert, Hannah Griffin, Jazz, Liner Notes, Live, Making Baby Float, My Liner Notes for 'Making Baby Float', Norman Meehan, Notes, Poetry, Songs, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #173 – Meehan and Manhire, Wellington, 2011

The collaboration between Norman Meehan and Bill Manhire has been important, fruitful – but it’s as much been about a collaboration, a deep connection between Meehan and his chosen vocalist, Hannah Griffin. I worked with Hannah years ago so hearing her on the recordings and watching her perform these poems-made-into-music has something of that Proud, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2011, Bill Manhire, Gig, Hannah Griffin, Jazz, Live Gig, Lyrics, Meehan and Manhire, Music, Norman Meehan, Poems, Poetry, Rattle, Review, Songs, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #173 – Meehan and Manhire, Uni, Victoria, VUP, VUW, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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October 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Meehan/Griffin/Chisholm: Small Holes In The Silence

Norman Meehan/Hannah Griffin/Hayden Chisholm Small Holes In The Silence Rattle/VUP Norman Meehan’s framing of Bill Manhire poems – taking them from the page to the stage with the assistance of the pure-voiced Hannah Griffin – resulted in a winning project across the Buddhist Rain and Making Baby Float albums, across the multimedia project, These Rough […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Alistair Campbell, Bill Manhire, Buddhist Rain, David Mitchell, Eileen Duggan, Hannah Griffin, Hayden Chisholm, Hone Tuwhare, James K. Baxter, Kiwi, Making Baby Float, Meehan/Griffin/Chisholm, New Zealand, Norman Meehan, Norman Meehan/Hannah Griffin/Hayden Chisholm, NZ, Poems, Poetry, Rattle, Small Holes In The Silence, These Rough Notes, Victoria University, VUP ·

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April 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Greg Crayford’s Pleasure Point: Rattledog!

Greg Crayford’s Pleasure Point Rattledog! – The Chicago Sessions Greg Crayford Greg Crayford’s regular jazz session features his band Pleasure Point – a loose collective as much as one defined band, for it features some of the big names in Wellington jazz, something of a rotating cast. Hear Nick Granville on guitar, Norman Meehan’s piano, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ann Pacey, Greg Crayford, Greg Crayford's Pleasure Point, Jazz, Michelle Scullion, Nick Granville, Nick Tipping, Nils Olsen, Norman Meehan, Patrick Bleakley, Rattledog!, Rattledog! - The Chicago Sessions, Simon Jones, Wellington, Wellington Jazz ·

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