Time Is Moved (ABC/Ten Part Invention) 8/10 Somone’s been tinkering under the bonnet of the band I once called the Rolls Royce of Australian jazz. With a few spark plugs changed, it’s purring again – and roaring when the accelerator’s depressed. In the 20 years since Sydney’s 10-piece Ten Part…
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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…
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…