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Post by glean on Nov 27, 2006 18:06:39 GMT 10
Jazz reviews ARE less regular these days than used to be the case. The Age runs a jazz review by Leon Gettler in the Green Guide every 2nd week at best, more often every 3 weeks. The Sunday Age will run a jazz cd review by Derek Leather very occasionally. Kenny Weir might review a jazz cd in the Sunday Herald Sun every 3 weeks or so. The Australian will include a jazz cd review in their Saturday liftout some weeks, not every week (usually John Mcbeath, sometimes Ashleigh Wilson). The SMH will have a review by John Clare or John Shand once a week ; not sure what day, but you will often find these on www.jazz.org.auIn the case of the Green Guide and Sunday Herald Sun, it used to be every week. Shand and Kevin Jones do jazz cd reviews for Limelight every month. Anyone know of any other regular reviews ? I used to do a weekly cd review for The Bulletin, but they dropped their cd review section about 2 months ago. I still do a jazz cd review section for Rhythms magazine. If I haven't given marksiks a good review some time in the past, I guess I have to now ! wow it is worse than i relaised AJ ..........thanks for that but i reckon while all of us are online we could easily dash off a short letter to a newspaper asking for more jazz reviews if they get lots of letters in the same few weeks they'll seriously reconsider it letters@theage.com.au letters@smh.com.au you can write to heraldsun by going to their website www.heraldsun.com.auwww.theaustralian.com.auyou can write the same letter to all of them cos they sure aint gonna print it but they should read it |
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Post by timothystevens on Nov 27, 2006 18:12:53 GMT 10
Or you could subscribe to Music Forum.www.mca.org.au/index.php?id=46I have nothing to gain by saying this, although yes I write some of the reviews of improvised music. |
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Post by pettman on Nov 27, 2006 20:38:16 GMT 10
Yes, the Music Forum. Nice review of Mr Chindamo and Mr Grabowski. Great albums, but you have a problem with the American songbook? Or are you one of these reviewers talked of here with not much knowledge of the techniques of music?
You say you write reviews of improvised music? Maybe you shouldn't review albums of standards then?
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Post by timothystevens on Nov 27, 2006 20:49:54 GMT 10
You'd have to be winding us up. Surely no-one outside of Parliament House is that stupid.
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Post by pettman on Nov 27, 2006 21:02:53 GMT 10
Us? Are you more than one? You did not like the cowering to the tradition or am I wrong? I am outside parliament and obviously stupid in your judgment. But maybe thats the point, the sitting in judgment, reviewing.
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Post by ironguts on Nov 28, 2006 6:50:38 GMT 10
Fuck off you stupid t-r-o-l-l !! This thread is about supporting the Jazz community, not some pedantic rave from an obviously uneducated punter.
Write some letters, by some CD's and shut up.
Calling CARTMAN.
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Post by glean on Nov 28, 2006 8:16:27 GMT 10
HOORAY GUTS IS BACK!
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Post by mim on Nov 28, 2006 9:01:31 GMT 10
So, question is, who was Glen during the guts era?
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Post by glean on Nov 28, 2006 12:03:58 GMT 10
Or you could subscribe to Music Forum.www.mca.org.au/index.php?id=46I have nothing to gain by saying this, although yes I write some of the reviews of improvised music. but to get more uninitiated people to hear or buy our music , i reckon good to keep a profile of our music in mainstream publications wherever possible and it is fastly dissappearing from the mainstream |
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Post by glean on Nov 28, 2006 12:05:53 GMT 10
So, question is, who was Glen during the guts era? a nerd |
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Post by timothystevens on Nov 28, 2006 12:18:00 GMT 10
but to get more uninitiated people to hear or buy our music , i reckon good to keep a profile of our music in mainstream publications wherever possible and it is fastly dissappearing from the mainstream You're right, of course. Recently EG ('Entertainment Guide,' the Friday supplement to The Age) turned 21, hosted a birthday party and gave out some awards. This was banged on about for weeks and weeks in advance, as though it were something important. Probably few remember that when that magazine started, there were weekly columns on jazz and classical music, written up by actual human beings. Neither was represented in the birthday celebrations, as far as I could tell. All that seemed to be being celebrated was the publication as it is now: infantile celebrity-worship, movie reviews, and currently fashionable pop music. We surrender our memory and fall into line. |
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Post by aj on Nov 28, 2006 13:00:12 GMT 10
Of course, the great irony about the Age EG's attitude to jazz is that they derive a healthy slice of revenue every week from the jazz ads........yet they get away with pretending that the EG readership is too young and hip to be interested in reading anything about jazz.
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Post by alimcg on Nov 28, 2006 14:02:40 GMT 10
And now they've fucked over what used to be the best gig listings in print.
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Post by gator on Nov 28, 2006 14:51:02 GMT 10
So last weeks gig listings were not just an aberration? Thats it.. Im just gonna read the Trading Post from now on...and Music forum of course.
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Post by alimcg on Nov 28, 2006 16:40:32 GMT 10
It's been 2 or 3 weeks in a row now. It was the only reason I ever bought Friday's Age. Might just stick with the Saturday Age now.
I get the distinct impression that eg is run by a pack of dills.
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