Concert Hall, October 11 9/10 Herbie Hancock has never made music: he’s always shared it. This was already the case when, aged 23, the pianist joined arguably Miles Davis’s greatest band, and created harmonic atmospheres that suddenly made jazz weightless, while still under maximum propulsion. Simultaneously, he became a notable…
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City Recital Hall, September 26 6/10 He really should have had a band. Just bass and drums – like a certain previous trio that benefitted from Andy Summers’ guitar playing. If you’re going to use backing tracks on virtually every song, it seems lame and even cheap not do what…
Where We Are Now 7/10 Following in the giant footsteps of Ten Part Invention comes Mosaic, a new Sydney band with the same 10-piece instrumentation, and with the same shared emphases on improvisation and original compositions (from both inside and outside the band). Formed at the Sydney Conservatorium by trombonist…