THERE’LL BE SOME CHANGES PLAYED (www.timstevens.com.au) 7/10 The ease with which a famed Schumann fragment (the first movement of his Kinderszenen) slots in among pianist/composer Tim Stevens’ own nine pieces tells us much. Stevens’ playing has an elegant formality that can sometimes conjure up the ghost of John Lewis (of…
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THE COMPOSERS’ CIRCLE VOL. 1 (www.andreakellerpiano.com) 7.5/10 While the pandemic may have necessitated Andrea Keller keeping to her Melbourne home, the prolific composer/pianist certainly can’t be kept in a stylistic box. During 2020 she’s released four albums, with this live one coming from a residency at Brunswick’s Jazzlab, where she…
BLUES RINSE (www.georgewashingmachine.com) 7/10 George Washingmachine is best known for mainstreaming his crooning voice and cruising violin into the plump vein of jazz. Long before establishing that career, however, he used to love going bananas on an electric guitar, and it’s to this he returns on Blues Rinse, while hollering…