Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

January 21, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

State Theatre, January 18  Perhaps it’s the absence of gravity, but exploring outer space via the music of Sun Ra for 57 years has made Marshall Allen the youngest 89-year-old man I’ve seen. Each time he detonated the incendiary device known as his alto saxophone the State Theatre’s glorious ceiling…

January 17, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

City Recital Hall, January 11   Had Ernest Rutherford not worked out how to split the atom science would only have had to wait until Ambrose Akinmusire came along. Where Rutherford used alpha particles Akinmusire uses something much more lethal: a trumpet. No other instrument seems to scythe through the…

December 3, 2013 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Clarendon Guesthouse, November 30 Check each egg before you eat it. Mikelangelo told us he was hatched from one (an indeterminate time after a frenzied splicing of his parents), and dipping your spoon into something similar would be a disturbing way to start your day. It was alarming enough entertaining…