Now This (ECM) 9/10 Gary Peacock, who turned 80 since this album was recorded, remains the preeminent living jazz bassist. He was a part of the 1960s free-jazz explosion with Albert Ayler and helped fashion the very bones of modern piano-trio jazz with Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett.…
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Keith Jarrett: Creation (ECM) 8/10 Nils Okland Band: Kjolvatn (ECM) 9/10 Colm Mac Con Iomaire: And Now The Weather (Plateau/Planet) 7/10 Paul Cutlan: Across the Top (Tall Poppies) 8/10 Music genres might not quite be, as our former prime minister would have it, “dead, buried and cremated”, but they are…
Silly Winds (Rouseabout) Some albums should be consigned to history at the earliest convenience, while others deserve resurrection and eternal life. Silly Winds is a compilation drawing on two of Cathie O’Sullivan’s albums from the 1980s. A long-time member of the Larrikins and subsequently an academic, O’Sullivan has an important…