Foundry 616, December 3 8/10 All music that is not idle display is a dialogue of sorts. Across this night came dialogues between music and room, music and audience, players and compositions, players and their instruments, improvisers and their collaborators and even between the first act and the second. In…
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Blue Mountains Theatre, November 25 9/10 Too often in music where improvisation plays a central role a string section is merely used perfunctorily, providing sweetening, padding or wallpaper. Paul Cutlan’s writing for string quartet is infinitely more sophisticated. In place of either blandness or shock-tactics it pursues the nuanced development…
Foundry 616, November 12 7.5/10 Singer Gian Slater was a fitting artist to round out this year’s Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival, as her collaboration with pianist Barney McAll and drummer Simon Barker is all about opening up possibilities rather than closing them down in the pursuit of a specifically…