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Podcast: The Music Show
Episode: Kurt Elling's chops and an Extremely Serious Musical Comedy: The Dismissal
Description: Kurt Elling is probably best known as a purveyor of vocalese, having inherited the mantle from Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross. But Elling is scratching a whole new itch with his SuperBlue project. Electro- funk meets hip-hop beats. Is this jazz? Find out when Mr Elling is in the house paying his respects to jazz greats that came before.Laura Murphy is the composer and lyricist for a new musical The Dismissal. It takes audiences back to that fateful day in November 1975 and a constitutional crisis that overshadowed the Whitlam years. This world premiere is seen through the eyes o...