Gathering Rains (Kimnara) Simon Barker unveiled this band last year in an unforgettable concert at Campbelltown Arts Centre. While the music is improvised, it is he who “composed” the band, assembling the collective brilliance of these six musicians. Korean Pansori singer Il Dong Bae has previously collaborated extensively with Barker…
Category: Album Reviews – Archive
Billie Holiday: The Centennial Collection (Columbia) Cassandra Wilson: Coming Forth by Day (Sony) Ben Goldberg: Orphic Machine (Bag) How did a woman with a smallish voice and modest range come to be celebrated as one of the twentieth century’s greatest singers? It seems unthinkable in the era of TV talent…
Astral Transference/Seven Dreams (Orenda) Los Angeles has a habit of throwing up musicians at odds with the mainstream. Ornette Coleman’s free jazz revolution began there, for instance, and Frank Zappa’s genre-bending body of work is among the twentieth century’s most distinctive. This is the third Daniel Rosenboom opus reviewed in…