City Recital Hall, April 6 8.5/10 The trick, of course, was not to copy, but to reinvent. So arrangers Matt McMahon and Bernard Rofe, the ACO and trumpeter Phil Slater made Solea their own. The work is the pinnacle of a masterpiece of 20th-century music: Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain…
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Phoenix Central Park, February 17 8/10 At one point it ceased to be three pianos, and sounded more like a mighty choir or a vast orchestra of harps. If you closed your eyes the galaxies of notes seemed infinite, generating a formidable density of sound, while still being shot through…
Foundry 616, February 3 8/10 Here we were, stepping into the TARDIS and whooshing back three decades to a time when Australia’s most incendiary musician recorded his only album (aided by three brilliant colleagues), appropriately called Fire. Saxophonist Mark Simmonds died in 2020, the pandemic preventing any musical celebration of…