City Recital Hall, September 26 6/10 He really should have had a band. Just bass and drums – like a certain previous trio that benefitted from Andy Summers’ guitar playing. If you’re going to use backing tracks on virtually every song, it seems lame and even cheap not do what…
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Where We Are Now 7/10 Following in the giant footsteps of Ten Part Invention comes Mosaic, a new Sydney band with the same 10-piece instrumentation, and with the same shared emphases on improvisation and original compositions (from both inside and outside the band). Formed at the Sydney Conservatorium by trombonist…
Mention The Police – the band, not the law enforcement agency – and we tend to firstly think of Sting: he of the boyish voice and blithely melodic songs. Drumming aficionados will certainly remember Stewart Copeland’s flamboyant, reggae-tinged playing, and only then do we come to Andy Summers, the trio’s…