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Album review: ECILA (Alice Humphries)
ECILA (Alice Humphries) Independent release December 2012 Review by John Hardaker Elizabeth Bogoni’s striking cover of the new album by WA composer/arranger Alice Humphries’ ECILA shows a deep blue...
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The new release by Jonathan Zwartz The Remembering & the Forgetting of the Air From the Birdland Records site (where you can purchase the CD) If The Sea looked in the direction of Kind Of Blue by...
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CD Release: Words (Collider)
Debut Album by Collider is out now and being launched at Uptown Jazz Cafe in Melbourne on Friday 1 March Words (Collider) Recorded in 2012 Collider’s first album Words looks for inspiration from the...
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CD Release: Fact Finding Mission (Trichotomy)
Trichotomy Fact Finding Mission (Jazzhead) 28 February 2013 Sean Foran (piano), Patrick Marchisella (bass), John Parker (drums) with James Muller, Tunji Beier & Linsey Pollak From the media release...
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Album releases: Origami
Origami Karaoke and The Usefulness of Art (Fatrain) From the media release ‘Origami, with masterly technique, embraces some of the most vital aspects of jazz tradition and yet has an utterly...
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Album Release: A Dove, A Lion, A Coast, A Pirate (Luke Howard Trio)
A Dove, A Lion, A Coast, A Pirate (Luke Howard Trio) Which Way Music (WWM018) Information from the media release Recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio with legendary engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug, A Dove, A...
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CD Review: Theseus and The Minotaur (Captain Kirkwood)
Theseus and The Minotaur Captain Kirkwood (view on Bandcamp) Review by John Hardaker Composer and trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood is known for her inventive and genre-busting arrangements for Sydney’s Sirens...
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Ellen Kirkwood Q&A – with John Hardaker
Prior to publishing his review of Theseus and The Minotaur (Captain Kirkwood), John Hardaker asked Ellen Kirkwood some questions about the album and Here are her responses. 1. The most obvious first –...
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CD Review: The Subterraneans – Live at The Townie
The Subterraneans – Live at The Townie (Rippa Recordings) available from Birdland Records Review by John Hardaker The Subterraneans I once heard John Coltrane’s playing described as the sound of a...
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Nat Bartsch Trio | John Clare reviews two releases
by John Clare Art and music traditions are abiding fascinations for me, and for most viewers of this site I imagine. Any genre that has been around long enough to be called a tradition will have moved...
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CD Review: the remembering and forgetting of the air
the remembering and forgetting of the air Jonathan Zwartz Review by Phil Sandford This is a stunningly beautiful album, full of warmth, with touches of Ellington and Mingus, of soul and pop, and...
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CD Review: The Subterraneans – Live at The Townie
The Subterraneans – Live at The Townie (Rippa Recordings) available from Birdland Records Review by John Shand Is this a new genre? Pub jazz-rock? I remember that hearing the Subterraneans for the...
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Album Release: Lost In The Stars (Allan Browne Trio)
lost in the stars | allan browne trio Released June 2013 on Jazzhead From the media release The Allan Browne Trio with Marc Hannaford and Sam Pankhurst present Lost In The Stars, an album inspired by...
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CD Review: Aaron Michael (Aaron Michael)
Aaron Michael – Aaron Michael (Independent Release) available from CD Baby CD Review by John Hardaker Aaron Michael | picture by Aaron Blakey (www.aaronblakey.com) In James Ryan’s liner notes to Aaron...
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Shadow Boxing – Encountering Chameleons of the White Shadow
Shadow Boxing – Encountering Chameleons of the White Shadow Chameleons of the White Shadow – Joseph Tawadros (ABC Music) A take on the CD by Arjun von Caemmerer If an index of the ‘success’ of any art...
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Album review: Oneirology (~ study of dreams) | Compass Quartet
Oneirology (~ study of dreams) - Compass Quartet Earshift records (EAR07) Review by John Hardaker Chamber ensembles can be a beautiful thing. Intimacy, flexibility, improvisation, new tone colours,...
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CD Review | The Sword and The Brush (Red Fish Blue)
Red Fish Blue The Sword And The Brush (Keynetic Records KR0022013) Review by John Shand One of the most mesmerising subjects for underwater filming can be not the fish but the swirling plant-life....
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Album release: Live (Cannonball)
From the media release Melbourne based jazz group Cannonball proudly announces the release of its new CD ‘Live’ featuring Chantal Mitvalsky on vocals. The album was recorded live over two nights at...
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Album Review: AK (Adam Katz)
Adam Katz AK (Newmarket NEW3321.2) Review by John Shand One of the tricks when combining jazz and rock is to avoid the players’ virtuosity spiralling into bombast. A cunning way of escaping that dismal...
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Album release: The Revolution Continues (Tina Harrod)
From the media release ‘Harrod pours herself, every inch, sinew and synapse, into the songs…she gives you goosebumps.’ John Shand, SMH Tina Harrod Like many great artists, singer songwriter Tina...
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