It's jazz time again!

SIMON SWEETMAN
Last updated 10:38 28/05/2015
Despite not being on the best terms with Wellington's Jazz Police jazz is one of my great loves - as a reviewer that means, unfortunately, you sometimes have to say that something didn't live up to the hype, or didn't deliver on the night.


And local jazz fans and players don't like that - because they want their discount tickets to as many international acts as possible; if you say the guy or girl on the night didn't deliver it might mean we don't get as many shows.

Anyway, it's very much jazz time once again - the Wellington Jazz Festival, featuring local and international guests, kicks into gear next week. Click on that link to see the highlights of a long weekend of jazz and jazz-derived music. Many of the bars in Wellington have DJs and live acts, the Lighthouse Cinema is playing jazz-themed films. And the Opera House will host a handful of international names - as well as a fascinating collision of styles/worlds when The Rodger Fox Big Band and Michael Houstoun perform together on stage (I'm really looking forward to that one).


It's almost always jazz time in my house - the bulk of my record collection is jazz or jazz-related. I got to funk and soul and hip-hop through jazz. I got to psychedelic rock's extremes and noise and improv and some minimalist/soundscape music through jazz.

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