REFOCUS (Edition/Planet) 8/10 Tim Garland was the late Chick Corea’s orchestrator of choice, the pianist admiring Garland’s capacity for imbuing his scores with both groove and a sense of dialogue with the improvisers. ReFocus highlights this, alongside Garland’s brilliance as a tenor saxophonist. The album takes Stan Getz’s Focus (made…
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TREADING WATER (Earshift) 7/10 You relax into this music like it’s going to being a sonic hammock, and then out of nowhere, it smacks you on the jaw. The Avegicos brothers – trumpeter Tom and saxophonist Michael – have become pervasive in Sydney jazz circles over the last few years,…
TIMESLIPS (www.tangentsmusic.com) 7.5/10 Picture a narrow passage with six doors. The first is marked Exaptation, and as you remember the meaning – something acquiring functions for which it was not intended – the door springs open, and you’re sucked inside a sound world where organic and robotic elements cohabit with…