Category Archives: Rants
Lucian’s poster presentation, Rhythm Changes Conference, Amsterdam
This past weekend I attended the Rhythm Changes conference, whose topic was Jazz & national Identity. The conference committee generously allowed me to present my thesis arguing for comprehensive ethnographic enquiry in Australian jazz as a poster presentation there. You … Continue reading
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Room Wanted
Last night I was at a Sydney underground venue, which shall remain nameless here. I played in a larger (8-piece) modern jazz ensemble: some well written original music by Glenn Doig featuring wonderful jazz players from the younger side of … Continue reading
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Lucian’s top 5 trombone influences at The Dilworths
Over at The Dilworths blog Eamon Dilworth has been engaging local musicians in discussions, including ‘top 5′ style list of influences on their instruments. In my contribution, I thought I should put my influences in context of how, and through … Continue reading
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Articles posted now too
Head to writings to read all two of my articles. I’ll add more as they come. You can download them as pdf too if you wish. L
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touring is fun
It’s been fantastic to play with Remco, James, Mike and Matt every other night for a while. I can’t remember the last time I got to explore a set of music to this extent – which says something about how … Continue reading
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