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December 2015 - Christmas Edition

Dear friends,

Christmas is drawing near, and here in Australia, December is known as the silly season. It's strange to think that we celebrate Christmas during summer here in the southern hemisphere in the style of northern hemisphere celebrations -…

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November 2015 - Wangaratta Jazz Edition

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Dave Goodman Quartet
We enjoyed playing at Foundry 616 in October. Click the photo for some footage from the gig. We're looking forward to playing the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues in St Patrick's …Read more

September 2015

Dear friends, 

I trust all is well with you and yours!

Today marks five years since the day that I sent my doctoral thesis away to be marked. It took nearly six years to write, and the final product wound…

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August 2015

Dear friends,
I hope you're well, and that life is good for you and your family. I'd like to welcome you to the new look and feel of my website. My website now features updated banner photos taken by the…Read more

July 2015 - A Tribute to Allan Browne

Dear friends,
I hope you enjoyed June as much as I did! The fun, however, was not enjoyed without loss. The passing of Melbourne's Allan Browne - drummer, improviser, band leader and poet par excellence - cut deeply through Australia's…Read more

June 2015

Dear friends,
May brought with it the opportunity to once again ask the eternal question: "where does the apostrophe go?" Ella and I had a nice time celebrating a happy day for Ella's mummy, and I celebrating a happy day…Read more

May 2015

Dear friends,
I hope you enjoyed April and that it was a successfully productive month for you. If you're in Sydney, I hope you weren't adversely affected by the recent storms.

I celebrated the completion of my 38th orbit around…Read more

In Memory of Alan Turnbull, 1943 – 2014

Preface

Given immediate access to the kinds of communications technology we usually have in one of our pockets throughout the duration of most of our waking lives these days, it’s difficult to avoid sensationalising and trivialising the occurrence of…

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