ARTEFACT (jeremysawkins.com) 7/10 If life has you grinding your teeth down to stumps, this may be the antidote. The opening Blues For Sera has such a relaxed, loping swing that you can’t help but exhale deeply in a contented sort of way, and think things aren’t too bad. A bass…
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LEFT HAND PATH (Downstream) 9/10 When the clarinet faded from favour as a front-line jazz instrument (in favour of the saxophone and or sometimes the bass clarinet) the music lost a singularly expressive array of colours. These colours and effects did not need to be restricted to the leaping, pert…
DISTRICT SIX (Losen/Birdland) 7/10 Among all the indigenous idioms with which jazz has intermingled the music of South Africa has been an especially natural fit. Such rainbow nation musicians as Abdullah Ibrahim, Dudu Pukwana and Louis Moholo have been responsible for some of the most distinctive and ebullient jazz ever…