ACROBATS 8/10 What’s this? John Farnham’s You’re the Voice?! Now there’s a song I never thought could be teased into a freer, jazzy treatment. Nonetheless, here it is on Jo Lawry’s Acrobats album, the singer proving there few barriers to her daring. She and her collaborators strip it of all…
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THE OUTSIDER 8/10 Like traffic, music can be free-flowing, bustling, impatient or static. Pianist/composer Chris Cody begins his tribute to the great French writer Albert Camus with the frenetic Procession, inspired by an African funeral parade that Cody witnessed. The rhythm initially churns beneath the stabbing melody before skittering through…
Keith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert 8/10 Dale Barlow Quintet with Bernie McGann: Memories of McGann 8/10 They’re like children, records, living on after the artist has retired or died – proof that he or she once breathed and sweated music. And, a bit like illegitimate or adopted offspring, new ones can suddenly…