When You Get There.....

Jasmine Lovell-Smith (ss) Jake Baxendale (as/b.cl) Daniel Hayles (p) Emma Hattaway (b) Cory Champion (d)  It seemed like it had been quite ...

You gotta dig Joe’s relaxed focused intensity  I couldn't think of a better place to be on a stormy Friday night. Although it had b...

Tim Hopkins:  Seven  (Rattle) Hopkins (ts) Dixon Nacey (g) John Rae (d) Richard Nunns (taonga p ū oro) 2011 Last month featured the l...

Alan Broadbent has been keeping me company on the roads this week. Of these three discs, my preference is for the trio outings - Better Da...

The 3-Out: Move   Mike Nock (p) Freddy Logan (b) Chris Karan (d) Years before I heard Move , a friend (hi John!) played me a singl...

The 3-Out were featured in the March 16, 1962 issue of the NZ Listener . I remember hearing Mike mention that this was the group everyone a...

Nathan Haines – The Poet's Embrace (Haven Music) Haines (ts) Kevin Field (p) Thomas Botting (b) Alain Koetsier (d)  Shift Left ...

The finalists for the Recorded Music NZ Best Jazz Artist and APRA Best Jazz Composition have been announced.  Does anyone know why chan...

Next up in the NZ Music Month articles is the April 1992 issue of  NZ Musician.  This issue featured  Nathan Haines  following his first so...

During May I will be uploading a few articles on NZ jazz that I stumbled into while poking around the library. First up is the winter 1993 ...

I recently updated the blog to include a couple of pages regarding New Zealand Jazz (see navigation bar towards the top left of the page). T...

Root 70: Luxury Habits ( nWog Records ) Nils Wogram (trb) Hayden Chisholm (as) Matt Penman (b) Jochen Rueckert (d) The latest alb...