Blue Mountains Theatre, February 15 9/10 Thirty-eight years on, the wonder only increases that The Necks’ simple formula results in music without limits. It’s not just a formula for long-form improvisations with evolving cells of repeated information, it’s a formula of musical personalities, and pianist Chris Abrahams, bassist Lloyd Swanton…
Category: Concert Reviews
St Stephen’s Church, November 1 9/10 Her voice sparked and flared even more than her blue-and-gold gown in the lights. One moment it was chomping and grinding in her contralto range, and then, like an inverse shooting star, it dashed up to pitches beyond the stratosphere. Quite simply, Jazzmeia Horn…
Concert Hall, October 11 9/10 Herbie Hancock has never made music: he’s always shared it. This was already the case when, aged 23, the pianist joined arguably Miles Davis’s greatest band, and created harmonic atmospheres that suddenly made jazz weightless, while still under maximum propulsion. Simultaneously, he became a notable…