The Bennetts Lane website had announced a special guest will be performing there on the opening night of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival (Thursday 3rd May). Well that special guest will be Chick Corea.
He will be playing with the same line up he is performing with at the Jazz Festival on Saturday May 5th; and of course that will include ex-Canberran Frank Gambale on guitar.
You can now get tickets on-line by going to the Bennetts Lane website
I have met Mike Stern many times, and he is one of the truly genuine people in this world, and I always enjoy the discussions I have with him. Mike took time out to talk to me about his latest album - “Who Let The Cats Out” and you can listen to part 1 of the Podcast here…
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I interviewed legendary drummer Dave Weckl about his latest CD release on Stretch Records - Multiplicity, and a Podcast of the discusion can be heard here…
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The Melbourne International Jazz Festival starts later this week.
Jazz great Herbie Hancock will be here with an amazing band.
Guitarist Lionel Loueke, Drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and Bassist Nathan East will be here.
The band is quite amazing and very powerful, with alot of very funky sounds.Not to be missed.
Chick Corea will also be here with that great Aussie guitarist Frank Gambale.
Keep checking this site for news on interviews and specials with some of these great musicians.
Listen to Bitches Brew every Tuesday nights at 8 pm for updates.
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Hadrein Feraud, electric bassist from France has a new CD and we will feature it on the show.
This is amazing work and must not be missed.
Also you can hear music from John McLaughlin’s Industrial Zen CD featuring Hadrien Feraud on Bass
Also Music from a live Concert at Yoshi’s in Oakland California featuring Jimmy Haslip-Allan Holdsworth-Chad Wackerman-Alan Pasqua.
French electric bassist Hadrien Feraud has just released his own self titled debut CD.
Some of Hadriens work recently featured on the stunning new John McLaughlin CD; Industrial Zen. I discussed the “Industrial Zen album with John McLaughlin recently and this was a feature on my PBSFM Radio Show- Bitches Brew.
I also recorded a Podcast with John McLauglin where we discussed this album as well as his legendary musical career. You can hear that Podcast here in the near future
I hope to talk to Hadrien about his latest project soon as well as feature music from his CD on upcoming radio shows.
Not surprisingly John McLaughlin described him amongst other things as “simply amazing”.
