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Joy Yates at Tauranga Jazz Festival 2012 review

Culture Vulture — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:12:57 +0000

In the old Church at the Jazz Village, a perfect venue for an intimate soulful performance from Joy and David MacRae (piano). Wonderful vocals of old standards with nice bluesy soulful accents and great piano. Could have listened for hours. Sadly I was disappointed with the CD I bought but only because it didn’t reflect [...]

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Boogie Train at Tauranga Jazz Festival 2012 review

Culture Vulture — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:10:28 +0000

Good set including lots of covers from the likes of Canned Heat. Good listening

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Jan Preston Trio at Tauranga Jazz Festival 2012 review

Culture Vulture — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:06:59 +0000

Jan Preston Trio including Jan, her husband on percussion, and Nigel Master of Kokomo on Bass. If you like Boogie Woogie piano you love Jan. If you don’t, you still have to love her boundless enthusiasm, great Boogie Woogie skills and “showpersonship”. Pleased a large crowd at Red Square for several hours.

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Sassy & the Pocket Books at Tauranga Jazz Festival 2012 review

Culture Vulture — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:56:14 +0000

While funk is not really my thing, it was obvious that this band has talent in abundance, can set up good grooves and deliver a solid performance around them. I love bands with ättitude”and they have that for sure!

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Shaken Not Stirred at Tauranga Jazz Festival 2012 review

Culture Vulture — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:52:36 +0000

Another good performance from a band well known at this festival. Maybe a little shaky in places, perhaps after a big gig on the Strand the night before. Playing lots of standards with their own flavour – the sort of music that appeals to many of the middle of the road jazz audience. Easy to [...]

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The Hispanics at Tauranga Jazz Festival 2012 review

Culture Vulture — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:49:15 +0000

Sadly due to clashes with other bands I also wanted to catch, I only saw a couple of numbers by this talented and highly energetic band from Auckland. I think they will probably rate as “the best Tauranga Jazz festival band that I didn’t see enough of”. What I did see was great, high energy [...]

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Malcolm McNeil at Tauranga Jazz Festival 2012 review

Culture Vulture — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:47:51 +0000

With a guitar and a bass (Nigel Masters from Kokomo), this didn’t seem like the tightest performance, but hey that’s Jazz, and maybe they haven’t played together much. His voice faltered at times and some of the improv seemed out of synch but we can live with that. Malcolm has been in this business a [...]

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Adam Page at Tauranga Jazz Festival 2012 review

Culture Vulture — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:43:57 +0000

What can you say when you see someone this musically talented. Adam plays everything from a U-bass (tenor sized bass ukukele), to flute, great Jazz Sax (his instrument of choice), to two PVC pipes that made a key changing Digeridoo, kalimba (african thumb piano), indian flute, keyboard and more, plus beat box vocals and Tuvan [...]

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Whirimako Black & Nigel Gavin Coromandel Concert Review

Culture Vulture — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:35:32 +0000

Whirimako Black & Nigel Gavin’s concert at Coromandel town on 25 Nov 2010 was a real treat. Both exceptionally talented musicians, they captivated the audience throughout with everything from jazz standards to originals in both English and Maori. Whirimako’s originals, some written by family members, were so heartfelt that they were still strongly meaningful to [...]

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An Evening of Song and Dance

Culture Vulture — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:24:30 +0000

The World Youth Peace Foundation in conjunction with Mercury Bay Community Choir presents: An Evening of Song and Dance Featuring… The Bay Festival Choir (formerly the Big Sing Choir) performing the ‘Repertoire for Peace’ Dr James Niblock, visiting choral director Carol Niblock, guest soprano Adam Maha, guest violinist SPYL Dance per forming ‘Transcend’ Diana Morcom [...]

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