Music Reviews and Essays
My new Bob Dylan article: ‘Listening To Our Parents Talking’
Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Sydney Opera House (7 March 2010)
Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet Part I and Part II
Californian Pastoral: The Beach Boys’ ‘Friends’ Revisited
Concert Notes: Brian Wilson at the Sydney Festival (8 & 9 January, 2008)
Hugo Friedhofer’s Boy On A Dolphin (1957)
Reading Notes: Dusty In Memphis by Warren Zanes
Other Music Posts
Warwick Alder’s ‘Brendance’ / Big Sur (early version) / Brian Wilson’s That Lucky Old Sun: Full Album Stream / Sydney Underground Music / National Jazz Writing Competition 2008 / Elvis Costello: When I Was Cruel No. 2 / Miklos Rozsa’s El Cid (Tadlow Music) / Avant Garde Moments: Stockhausen’s ‘Helikopter Quartett’ / Dylan Performances: Idiot Wind / Dylan’s Hard Times in New York Town
Jazz Clips on YouTube
Miles Davis Live 1969: Bitches Brew / Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn & Johnny Hodges: Isfahan / Bud Powell: Anthropology / The Dale Barlow Band Live: ‘Oleo’ / Duke Ellington on the Fringe of the Jungle / Louis Armstrong’s set at 1958 Newport Jazz Festival / Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers in San Remo ‘63 / Freddie Hubbard (1938-2008) / Sonny Rollins / Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (Paris ‘59) / Jazz on Youtube: Duke & Art
