I snuck this CD on one night when friends were sitting in the backyard. No fanfare, no announcement. I was curious to see what effect, if any, the music might have on the listeners, a couple of friends with great ears and a love of fine music.
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Review: Moments in Time (Alex Pertout and Nilusha Dassenaike)
Review by Peter Kenneally: “It’s all driven along by and part of the rhythmic net around it: when this happens, and it does often, the album draws you in and entrances you.”
Compass points in multiple musical directions!
“Compass succeeds on its combination of strengths, technical and compositional, yet as a saxophone quartet what sets it apart and makes it so listenable is that each player has quite a contrasting approach to tone and articulation.”
Mike Nock: Past and Present
Review by Phil Sandford: The quintet format has proved an enduring one in jazz and this excellent album shows that it still provides a powerful vehicle for creative compositions, solos and group interaction.
Sines of the Times – Loops + Topology: airwaves
“To the marvels enfolded within this album, airwaves, there is literally no end…”
Review: Fish Boast of Fishing (Peter Knight)
… the hum, buzz, & electric crackle coalesce at times into the sounds of the everyday
John McBeath in The Australian on Origami ‘Blues for Joy’
“Simmons wrote six of the widely differing nine tunes, and the surprise opener, ‘Sometimes I Dream’ comes from country singer Merle Haggard. It starts with Cairns’s ultra-slow acoustic bass before Simmons’s alto emerges as if from mantles of mist, continuing the almost funereal tempo suffused with deep feeling.” Link to the full review in The [...]
Review: Shreveport Stomp, Browne, Anning, Hannaford
Shreveport Stomp (Jazzhead, 2011) Allan Browne, Marc Hannaford, Sam Anning Review by Daniel Sheehan It’s amazing how a performance can be inseparable to a particular time and place, and so unique to the voices involved, even when the material in question is universally well-known and frequently documented. The trio of Allan Browne, Marc Hannaford and [...]
Review: Intangible Asset #82 and Daorum
Simon Barker has long been one of my favourite Australian drummers. Rest assured, he would have earned that place on the strength of his drumming in Mark Simmonds’ Freeboppers alone, without consideration of the extraordinary body of work he has produced since. For me, the Freeboppers’ album Fire (1993) remains one of the cornerstones of Australian jazz: four musicians – Simmonds, Scott Tinkler, Steve Elphick, and Barker – interlocking with a ferocious and burning intensity, their music exploding like a supernova.
Suites of Grey
It is fortunate that I allowed myself several exposures to this album before approaching Tom Heasley’s website where, prefixed to Tuba, the word Ambient is so prominently and alarmingly highlighted.
