One afternoon in 1977 Herbie Hancock drove to Chick Corea’s house in Los Angeles. As Hancock recounts in in his autobiography Possibilities, the plan was to see what (if anything) happened when the pair – at the pinnacle of their generation’s jazz pianists – duetted on two grand pianos. After…
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“If I can make it there/I’ll make it anywhere,” sang Frank Sinatra about New York, the world’s jazz Mecca. Since Frank sang that jazz ceased to be a style so much as a language common to improvising musicians from Mumbai to Rio. Sydney’s annual inundation of artists from Melbourne’s International…