Various Artists: It Takes Two to Tango (W&W/Birdland) Paul Motian: Standards Plus One (W&W/Birdland) Various Artists: Introducing M-Base (W&W/Birdland) Reijseger/Fraanje/Sylla: Count Till Zen (W&W/Birdland) Record companies are routinely depicted as the music business’s evil exploiters, the tales of rip-offs, mismanagement, bullying and cocaine being legion. Thankfully there are also many…
Category: Album Reviews
The Voyage of Mary and William (PathsAndStreams) Like Paul Grabowsky, Matt McMahon waited decades before recording his first album of solo piano. You can hear that distillation of ideas: a certain clarity of intent, without compromising the spontaneity that lies at the heart of McMahon’s art, for the 12 pieces…
Mutiny Music (http://www.mutinymusic.org/) This was a labour of blood-line love. In 2011 Rick Robertson, who is descended from Fletcher Christian, unveiled a suite tracing the history of the nine Bounty mutineers and 16 Tahitians who settled on Pitcairn Island in 1790, and the 194 people who relocated to Norfolk Island…