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LOUDMOUTH ARTICLES & REVIEWS

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LORETTA PALMEIRO: BANDLEADER, COMPOSER, ARRANGER, SAXOPHONIST/WOODWIND SPECIALIST

Interviewed by Eric Myers

Loudmouth, November 1, 2024

ABC Jazz’s artist-in-residence for October 2024, Loretta Palmeiro, is a sought-after saxophonist and woodwind player, recognized for her work across jazz, classical, popular, and world music. In early 2020, her duo with internationally celebrated pianist and composer Mark Isaacs gained widespread attention with a live-stream performance for SIMA's “Meditations in Jazz” series. This performance was released as their debut album, All Who Travel With Us, which earned 4.5 stars from John Shand in his review for the Sydney Morning Herald. With this album, the duo were finalists in the 2021 APRA AMCOS Australian Art Music Awards in two categories: Jazz Performance of the Year and Jazz Work of the Year…

GREGG ARTHUR SINGS DUKE ELLINGTON AT THE LOUNGE

Reviewed by Eric Myers

The Lounge, Chatswood Concourse, October 10, 2024

Loudmouth, November 1, 2024

This performance presented music at such a standard of excellence that we can only compare it to the fare we normally hear from American jazz masters. So it’s a tonic that this sort of music is available on our doorstep in Sydney. Jackie Thomas-Piccardi, whom I understand is responsible for curating/producing Jazz At The Lounge, with the support of Willoughby City Council, is to be congratulated in bringing this relatively new venue into fruition in the highly impressive Chatswood Concourse arts complex. Gregg Arthur drew a capacity audience, which many people estimated to be in excess of 200, in a venue which, to all intents and purposes, showed itself to be splendidly set up for this sort of presentation…

GIAN SLATER OPENS WOMEN’S JAZZ FESTIVAL

Reviewed by Eric Myers

Loudmouth, November 1, 2024

The opening concerts of the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival have been somewhat anti-climactic in recent years. For example, I was surprised that last year’s opening in 2023, featuring the duo of Melbourne saxophonist Flora Carbo and Sydney pianist Wilbur Whitta, took place on level 4 of the Women’s Club in Elizabeth St, Sydney. It was a lovely performance by two great musicians but there was some tension in the air, taking place as it did in a small, rather obscure venue, with seating for only about 40 people. The 2024 opening concert took place on Thursday October 24 at Johnston Street Jazz, in Annandale, the performers being Melbourne’s Gian Slater (piano, vocals), with Sydney musicians Freyja Garbett (keyboards), Phil Slater (trumpet), and Simon Barker (drums)…