The Studio, October 30 7.5/10 This could be cast as a win for composition over improvisation, although one could attend Freedman Jazz happily oblivious to its being a competition at all, and simply enjoy a celebration of creative music. This 15th edition again emphasised the diversity of music performed under…
Category: Concert Reviews
Foundry 616, October 26 9/10 He could write melodies as exultant as a leap in the air, and first lit up the world 60 years ago, his radical conception already fully formed. This was a complete reimagining of what an alto saxophone, a bass clarinet or a flute could be;…
Foundry 616, October 21 8/10 Dialogues between serenity and agitation have long been a mainstay of the western canon. Having those two extremes in play simultaneously is rather harder to achieve and therefore much rarer. This is the wonder of Jef Neve’s compositions for piano, bass, drums and strings, largely…