Springwood Presbyterian Hall, June 14 The tenor saxophone is so deeply embedded in jazz that the sound of Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster or John Coltrane is like the music’s conscience. The recent rush of international artists through Sydney brought the profundity of Charles Lloyd’s tenor and the quicksilver of…
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John Painter Hall, June 8 To hear the Joshua Redman Quartet within four days of Charles Lloyd’s band was to hear two of the most flexible and thrilling rhythm sections in contemporary jazz. Both shared the slippery bass playing of Reuben Rogers, teamed with drummer Eric Harland in Lloyd’s band…
City Recital Hall, June 4 In layering jazz into traditional and contemporary Greek music Charles Lloyd and Maria Farantouri miraculously avoid creating another anaemic cultural fusion (to join the world-wide infestation). The triumph is how remarkably intact and separate the two elements remain while intertwining, like two lovers whose individual…