Paul Cheneour – flutes, Dave Robinson – electronics, Clive Fletcher – electric upright bass. Music to a film by Annie Catford….musicians playing along with the film …sharp coloured abstract patterns…wheat fields landscape from a train. People on a platform. Bass improvisation over subtle electronics…flute takes off like a freebird over Central Asian mountains…. Bass strings […]

TRIESTE JAZZ FESTIVAL 7 July 2023 Anna Lauvergnac Quartet-Anna leader/vocals,ClausRaible piano Giorgio’s Antoniou bass,Xaver Helimer drums. Bass notes flew like birds in the evening trees… Anna opened with “The very thought of you”…a unique subtle style…a difference to what I have heard before. An improvisation over the range of the piano into bass soloing. On […]

Lennon-McCartney (Northern Songs) Those two writers ask “All the lonely people where do they all come from… all the lonely people where do they all belong? This question I will attempt to answer… Eleanor Rigby was not always a lonely person…. In 1914 she was a young married woman with a husband and a baby…. […]

The International Music Forum began in June 1989 as a single page jazz newsletter photocopied….and distributed to music shops in Auckland New Zealand. The first issue was a review of a concert featuring LA based New Zealand jazz pianist Alan Broadbent. In 1990 the highlight of the year was an issue with reviews of Stephan […]