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Unwired and unimpressed in Sydney

Being in-between homes at the moment, one thing I am particularly missing is my broadband internet connection. My laptop has become a pretty prison for all the information it contains, while I must use my hosts’ computer to access webmail using their connection....
Pianists and Projects

Pianists and Projects

What is it about the piano? At this month’s Sydney Festival (sadly the last one under the direction of the brilliant Fergus Linehan) a proliferation of piano-related events has brought into focus the peculiar ability of that instrument to appeal to high and low...

The losing of wisdom

Ouch. That’s the verdict, one week after the multiple extraction of all my wisdom teeth in one literal sitting, in the chair in the Park Street rooms of my dental surgeon and his anaesthetist, who drops by on Tuesdays. “Tuesdays are extractions,” the...

So says Said

Working – finally – on a new project, I’ve been engrossed in a collection of cultural critic Edward Said’s writings about music. Released earlier this year, Music at the Limits spans 30 years of his reviews and articles about music. It turns...

Blasts from the past

Today my past came rushing up to meet me, in two very different ways. In the morning I saw an old familiar face, belonging to someone who knew me – back then – better than I knew myself; and in the late afternoon I discovered that this former employee of...

Jazz and politics: “Pass it On”

A former regular reader of this blog got in touch recently and reminded me that I used to write about jazz a bit. Which reminded me I’d been remiss in not describing the wonderful Dave Holland Sextet gig I attended at Birdland in midtown a few short weeks ago. I...
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