Venue 505, August 22 If there is a goddess of music she was smiling on this. Ra-Kalam Bob Moses has been among jazz’s key drummers for 50 years, his associates including Pharoah Sanders, Roland Kirk, Pat Metheny and Gary Burton. In the heady 1960s his regular collaborators…
Category: Concert Reviews
Concert Hall, July 14 She steamed on stage with the sort of feistiness that league players save for Origin games, and dared us to argue that Peace And Understanding Is Hard To Find. Then she throttled I Wanna Be Around with something of the conviction of the old Renee Geyer,…
Blue Beat, July 12 Where George Harrison’s guitar gently wept, Reg Mombassa’s gnashes its teeth. The one he uses for playing slide is bright red: the colour of habanero chillies, war wounds and prostitutes’ lipstick. It howls and shrieks, protests and laments, and yet all the time is slyly celebrating,…