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,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 20, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
Last night Paris-based US expatriate pianist Kirk Lightsey asked his audience at the Sound Lounge when exactly he had last been in Australia. “I don’t know why it’s been so long,” he said. “I LOVE this place!” Lightsey is currently...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 21, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
How much fun was it to see the Modfather himself, the ageless Paul Weller, at the Enmore Theatre on Wednesday night? I haven’t jumped around in my chair so much since – well, since a gig at the Village Vanguard in February, and then the one at Sweet Rhythm...