IAN BARTLETT This is a recording of traditional English folk music .mostly over 200 years old…. except for “Diesel and Shale” (which is about the Royal Navy Submarine service in the 1950s). Ian sings and plays a lot of traditional instuments … flutes,whistles,smallpipes,concertina,bodhran drums,tambourine,bells… and some more modern ….melodean… and keyboard.Jean Reid contributes guitar Ian […]
This is guitarist Martin Winch’s first recording from 1984. Sahara is the name of a Rio suburb where migrants from the middle east settled when migrating to Brazil. I followed Martin Winch’s music career over three decades. Interviewing him for a history of New Zealand jazz. Watching Martin do a solo concert in Auckland’s Aotea […]
This is my take on this pop song imfluenced by Strong Successful Males U tube channel. The man she sings about is a wealthy Chad …. the man many women want to tie down, He walks into a party and all the women wish they could be his partner. In the chorus Carly Simon claims […]
DOLPHIN THEATRE 28/6/26 Director – Annie Whittaker Trudy Price – Mrs Robinson Nicholas Yeats – Benjamin Braddock Rose Herda – Elaine Robinson Gavin Leary – Mr Robinson Jake La Jeunesse – Mr Braddock Victoria Poole – Mrs Braddock Tia Svoboda – Desk Clerk, Stripper. And Psychiatrist. This is the stage version of the 1967 film […]
Jean Reid (winner of the New Zealand folk album of the year) opened the concert. Her pure vocal range impressed …. drawing from the British folk tradition. Singing in D, Bminor, and sometimes as high as E. Her guitar fingering was interesting … playing notes of a chord instead of strumming a whole chord. RAILWAY […]
The Glen Eden Playhouse This production is a co operation between St Peters College and Marist College. This is a musical written in the 1980s (based on the 1960s TV series “The Adams family”. Because of the production schedule there were two different teams of Actors, Actresses, singers, dancers, and understudies. That way the different […]
AUCKLAND JAZZ AND BLUES CLUB 28/4/26 BENJAMIN SHEPHERD TRIO Benjamin Shepherd – upright and electric bass Kevin Fields – piano Elijah White – drums Benjamin was born in Wellington and started playing bass at seven. At eighteen Ben moved to Los Angeles to study at the California Institute of Arts. His tutors were Charlie Haden, […]
Moslyn Cole-bass Alan Brown -organ Dixon Nacey-guitar Eliiah Whyte-drums Moslyn opened with a bassline tense as a bird on the wire ….. then an interesting musical conversation between Alan and Dixon … referencing Hendrix and Jimmy Smith (because they are the man) …. a slow boil to a cooking session…. Elijah crisp on the drums […]
MARCH 21 2026 NEW LYNN RSA Recently I met family relations who have a dance band ….. in the tradition of Maori dance bands . Like Howard Morrison ,the Maori volcanics ….. going right back to Walter Smith organising dance bands in Auckland a hundred years ago. Those musicians have a tradition of talented musicianship. […]
Roberto Magris – piano,electric piano,keyboards hammond organ ,mexican whistles Denis Razz Alto and soprano sax,flute. Karlo Iiic upright bass,electric guitar,oud. Rajko Ergic drums,precussion,and soprano sax on “Source of life” and “Echos fron the depth”. The CD opens with a Coltrane number”Some other blues”Razz playing in a Parker mood…. while Magris sparkles round him….inventive…touching on the […]