Jazz: NOW Wired, June 20 7.5/10 They’re not patterns so much as shadows, like an image that’s been painted over. Humans being hardwired to make connections, the links and evolutions hiding in the juxtaposition of new material with archival footage in the fortnightly Jazz: NOW Wired concert streams are almost…
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PROJECT-K (Savant) 8/10 At first you think there’s a guitar in the ensemble, and then you hear more clearly the teardrop-shaped notes of Do Yeon Kim’s gayageum, the ancient Korean cousin of the koto. Jazz being a language rather than an idiom, the instrument readily slots into this music’s neon…
STOCK (Lionsharecords/Planet) 9/10 Here’s the tangible benefit of not rushing to record a band; of letting it simmer away in rehearsal and live performance so, when it hits the studio, cohesion is a given. But this being saxophonist/clarinettist Julien Wilson, cohesion does not equate to abandoning exploration and simply settling…