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Sunday 25 July 2010

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Renee Rosnes & Bill Charlap: Double Portrait ( piano-centric weekend )  View Playlist

It's "a delicate business", there's "a lot of nonverbal communication" & "clarity" is crucial when husband & wife apply 20 fingers to 176 keys. Renee Rosnes & Bill Charlap's loving hands make sublime duo music on Double Portrait, the heart of our piano-focused weekend's 2nd chapter.

Saturday 24 July 2010

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Jex Saarelaht: Fiveways ( piano-centric weekend )  View Playlist

Jex Saarelaht is one of Australia's greatest improvising pianists & you've probably heard him on other people's records, but he's remarkably under-recorded as leader. Chapter one of our piano-centric weekend revolves around Fiveways - Jex's splendid new, 'live' quartet album.

Fiveways was recorded at the 2009 Stonnington Jazz Festival. Its written notes were composed by Jex, who improvises & interacts with drummer Niko Schäuble, saxophonist Julien Wilson & acoustic bassist Jonathan Zwartz.

Sunday 18 July 2010

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John McCusker/ Aidan O’Rourke ( revisited )  View Playlist

The music of fiddlers John McCusker & Adrian O’Rourke's work is quietly ambitious - informed by Scottish traditions, yet new. Their Under One Sky & An Tobar offer highly distinguished gatherings of players & singers.

Saturday 17 July 2010

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Loudon Wainwright III: High Wide & Handsome. The Charlie Poole Project ( revisited )  View Playlist

Only one man could have made High Wide & Handsome: the Charlie Poole Project to such crazy-perfection: Loudon Wainwright III. It's historical, hysterical, it'll make you laugh...a& you'll probably shed a tear, too.

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