by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 3, 2012 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
I must be missing New York’s cold January weather. How else to explain the two ice packs I’ve clutched to either end of me this past week in a hot and humid Australian climate? Visiting a dear friend in Brisbane, I fell over my own foot while hanging out...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 7, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
I am one of many people in the US and Australia and elsewhere who are always looking for ways to engage more people with some amazing music that doesn’t fall neatly into one musical category. We are still relying on a term called “jazz” that is often...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 27, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
On Saturday morning I scurried uptown to 126th Street, the home of the National Jazz Museum, for a symposium on the relationship between writing and jazz music with the unfortunate title The Pen is Mightier than the Sword. As usual I was wearing multiple hats for the...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 23, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
My latest jazz review: Chris Potter’s Underground at the Jazz Standard – rather late in being published here due to my blog presenting some degree of tech-resistance to my efforts to use it.
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 17, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
Last week I saw Australian pianist/composer Barney McAll and his band – featuring the fabulous saxophonist Billy Harper – at the Jazz Standard in Gramercy, which is possibly my favourite jazz club in Manhattan. The space is respectful of the musicians,...