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Dianne Cripps
GLENN DOIG AND DIANNE CRIPPS AT CHURCH STREET STUDIOS
Reviewed by Eric Myers
Sydney Arts Guide, July 24, 2025
This concert at Church Street Studios on July 21, 2025 was reasonably well-attended considering it was a miserably cold night. It featured two somewhat different modern jazz bands: a trio led by the pianist Glenn Doig with the flavour of art music; and a quartet led by the singer Dianne Cripps, whose ability to relate to the audience as a cabaret performer was evident. Both played music from their recent albums: Trio, in the case of Doig; and I Told The Ocean Your Name in the case of Cripps…
Judy Bailey
OBITUARY: (DR) JUDY BAILEY OAM 1935-2025
by Eric Myers
Sydney Arts Guide, August 19, 2025
Judy Bailey passed away peacefully aged 89 on Friday August 8, 2025, at Estia Health Willoughby where she had been resident since early 2021. She had already been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in August 2020, and subsequently suffered from mild cognitive impairment as a result of a failed anaesthetic during a hip replacement operation. Her two children Lisette De Gray and Chris De Gray were by her side at the end. Chris says “Both Lisette and I were privileged to have been with her and holding her right to her last breath. We are so sad right now but happy that she is free of her suffering”…
Gregg Arthur
FILM REVIEW: GREGG ARTHUR LIVE AT CITY RECITAL HALL
by Eric Myers
Sydney Arts Guide, August 19, 2025
This concert took place on April 13, 2024 at Sydney’s City Recital Hall, and shortly after, a review of mine appeared in the Music Trust’s e-zine Loudmouth. Having praised the performance in glowing terms, I’m gratified to claim that, now a film of this outstanding concert is available, the opinions I expressed in that review were pretty much on the money. In fact, the film brought me much closer to the action than where I was sitting in the audience on the night, some distance from the stage. Accordingly I now find the music here substantially more revealing about the artistry of Gregg Arthur, one of our greatest Australian jazz singers...