Alive with Ghosts Today (Edition) 8/10 This is Chris Potter’s magnum opus, to date. Until now, I’d thought the saxophonist’s most important artistic statements came when he was in the late Paul Motian’s band. Alive with Ghosts Today sees him ratchet up the ambition, creating a suite memorialising the 1860…
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Antahkarana 8/10 What a great title. Antahkarana, the latest instalment of The Three Seas’ 13-year voyage into a previously uncharted fusion of traditional Bengali music, jazz, dub, pop and more, is Sanskrit for “inner instrument”. This refers to the place inside us where memory, intuition, identity and soul converge. Add…
Breath (Newmarket) 8/10 Christopher Young is something of a maverick on Melbourne’s jazz scene, only occasionally releasing albums, but always having something worth saying. He’d known Dom Cheviet, a fellow reeds player from France, for 25 years before they finally got around to collaborating, and what a project it is.…