City Recital Hall, January 9 6.5/10 Finally Sydney Festival returned Australia’s improvising musicians to its program. Ignoring the musical treasures in its own back yard has been a monumental failure of knowledge, taste, programming and balance. That it was Stu Hunter who broke the drought was heart-warming. The pianist’s first…
Category: Concert Reviews – Archive
1 Eric Harland’s Voyager 505, June 3 Eric Harland’s daring music was like a glimpse of jazz circa 2020. A once-in-a-generation drummer, he is also a composer of sufficient breadth to transcend idiom, presenting his collaborators with diverse challenges and distinctive fields upon which to loose their highly focused improvising.…
Venue 505, December 17 Half English, half Australian and based in New York, Joanna Wallfisch is also something of hybrid musically. The songs she writes have elements of pop, art music, folk and jazz, her lyrics, in Blakeian terms, combine innocence and experience, and the two instruments she plays could…