CLIMB (Vegetable/Planet) 8/10 Hot on the heels of his unsettling Fluid to the Influence comes a very different opus from the Necks’ keyboard hypnotist, Chris Abrahams. But then change, surprise and contrast are in his DNA. In the course of an almost 40-year career Abrahams has played with an extraordinary…
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SENSATIONS (Navona) 7/10 Fighting to save one’s home from a bushfire may seem a long way from the contemplative activity of composing music, but the two are inextricably linked for Margaret Brandman, whose Firestorm Symphony is a programmatic depiction of her experiences at Glenbrook in the lower Blue Mountains. This…
SOME OTHER TIME (Resonance/Birdland) 9/10 Imagine finding a bottle of 1968 Grange under your house. This album is a greater coup. A ’68 Montreux Jazz Festival recording of pianist Bill Evans’ trio with bassist Eddie Gomez and new drummer Jack DeJohnette was always thought to be their only album together.…