Purists loathe him, and the feeling, it seems, is mutual. John McLaughlin calls purists “the bane of the world”, and has variously upset the jazz ones by being too rocky, the fusion ones by being too Indian and the Indian ones by being too western. Meanwhile he has left a…
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Bruce Cale does not just live in Katoomba, he plays the Mountains in his music. The connection, after all, could not be deeper. He was born in Leura and grew up in Katoomba where, as a child, he took violin lessons above a shop on the main street – a…
From playing with charades with Beyonce and Jay Z to performing with traditional Algerian musicians is admittedly a stretch, but Barney McAll and Greg Lloyd headed overseas with the same idea: to expand their horizons. McAll went to New York and Lloyd to Paris, neither jazz pianist knowing what would…