Wizard and Oz at The Pumphouse 30th January 2009

Probably the best Blues and Jazz duo out of Australia, have been touring NZ and gave a terrific concert at Takapuna's Pumphouse. The concert started at 7.45pm and continued until 11pm with two short 'fluid' breaks for both the audience and artists on this balmy summer evening. The music by the talented duo covered a broad range of genre including: jazz; blues; semi-classical; and ballads. The Wizard, Andrew Farrell, plays grand piano and vocals and Oz, David McMillan, guitar and vocals and the near full-house was rocking to the superb music. You can't help but recognize that The Wizard's style is a fusion of his classical piano background and jazz/blues - very original style but very, very good. They have quite a few CD's published and some of the tracks are original compositions. Some of the songs played this evening were:

McArthur Park; The Dream of Olwen (classical solo piano); The Dark Side of the Moon; Georgia (on my mind); Waltzing Matilda (hey, they are from Melbourne); Silver Thunderbird; Hallelujah.

You can visit their Web Site to check out there CD's and their current gigs calendar - http://wizardandoz.com.au/

Wizard and Oz made grateful acknowledgement of the ongoing support of Musicworks who lend them their equipment when touring New Zealand.