ESSAYS
This section includes essays on various jazz subjects, written by a number of writers. Contributions are welcome. Writers interested in contributing are welcome to contact the editor by filling out the form in the CONTACT tab. Photographs to illustrate those essays are welcome. Readers can click on the INDEX button for a list of articles in this folder.
Jack Thorncraft
THE LAST STRAW & BERNIE McGANN TRIO AT JENNY’S 1983
by Anthony Stanton
Jazz Magazine, May/June, 1983
So far 1983 has seen few highlights on the modern scene. After the non-event which was the Sydney Festival my own highlights have consisted of hearing the music of five bands: the two listed above as well as Roger Frampton's new band Intersection, Guy Strazzullo's In Focus, and the Miroslav Bukovsky Sextet. Few of us who had enjoyed the artistry and musical profundity of The Last Straw in the 70s believed that the band would ever get back together. I last heard them at The Basement in 1978 and came away from the final night suspecting that was going to be their swansong. I wasn't completely mistaken as the band played one more time at the end of that year. Their audiences were still enthusiastically turning up but no-one who booked jazz in Sydney appeared to be interested…