MISCELLANEOUS POSTINGS

This folder includes miscellaneous articles on jazz subjects, including performance and album reviews, written by Eric Myers, which may or may not have been published elsewhere. Readers can click on the INDEX button to peruse a list of contents in this folder.

GREGG ARTHUR’S TRIBUTE TO TONY BENNETT

by Eric Myers

Foundry 616, March 4, 2023

This performance by singer Gregg Arthur really was a blast, somewhat different in spirit to the last time I heard him in the company of the Peter Locke Trio, with Locke on piano, bassist Craig Scott and drummer Andrew Dickeson. That performance in May, 2021, which I reviewed at length, now seems in retrospect to have been somewhat inhibited, compared to the freewheeling approach that characterized this latest gig. The evening was spiced up with cameo performances from a special guest on  trumpet and flugelhorn, Billy Burton, still playing beautifully at the tender age of 90…

EMILY RYTMEISTER’S FILM “ROGER FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE“

Reviewed by Eric Myers

Dingo: Australian Jazz Journal, April, 2023

This beautiful film, which I found very moving, is an important work. The story of Roger Frampton, since his arrival in Sydney in 1968, is a large part of the history of jazz in the country’s then most significant jazz community, up to the end of the 20th Century. Frampton, a multi-instrumentalist of rare distinction, was a central figure in that history, and this absorbing documentary is enormously revealing. Emily Rytmeister, Roger’s daughter, was 25 when he died on January 4, 2000, aged 51. She acknowledged then that he had profoundly influenced her life.  This “student film”, however, part of the PhD she completed at Western Sydney University in 2021, has enhanced her appreciation of her father…

CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT HEADLINES THE WOMEN’S JAZZ FESTIVAL

Reviewed by Eric Myers

Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival

City Recital Hall, Sydney, October 31, 2023

The American singer Cécile McLorin Salvant closed the Melbourne International Jazz Festival on Sunday, October 29 with a standing ovation. Two nights later she headlined the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival at the City Recital Hall and enjoyed a similar reception. Accompanied by her trio Sullivan Fortner (piano), Yasushi Nakamura (bass) and Kyle Pool (drums), she did a 90-minute set which very much confirmed what Wynton Marsalis had said: that a singer like Salvant comes along once in a generation…