This performance by Paul Grabowsky paid tribute to the 1975 Jim Hall album Concierto, featuring Hall’s arrangement and performance of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez – specifically, the renowned slow movement.

That wasn’t new for jazz of course. Miles Davis performed it on Sketches of Spain and Chick Corea pinched it for Spain, but Hall’s performance of the piece was nonetheless as detailed and imaginative as you’d expect from one of the finest jazz guitarists of the 20th century.

I have two initial quibbles with QPAC’s advertising team. It seems a massive disservice to the immensely talented musicians – James Sherlock (guitar), Tamara Murphy (bass), Angela Davis (sax), Matthew Jodrell (trumpet) and Darryn Farrugia (drums) – not to mention them on the promo page. It seems like an absolute no-brainer that for a Jim Hall-inspired concert, you might want to mention, for instance, who’s playing guitar, right?

Also, who labelled this as ‘classically inspired jazz’ in the program and categorised it as classical music on the QPAC website?

Paul Grabowsky. Photo supplied

In any case, the concert was an electrifying echo of Hall’s original. The band began with Cole Porter’s You’d Be...