MODULAR (www.joshbennier.com) 7.5/10 Josh Bennier astutely builds improvising into the structures of his compositions, rather than just decorating song-forms with solos, so each player is given a context in which to carry the work forward on its multifaceted journey. The exceptional young trombonist bristles with so many ideas that he…
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Belvoir St Theatre, May 22 7/10 It hits you most at the end, with a view from Belvoir’s stage of the massed empty seats. The lights being switched off is such an eloquent statement of the plight; of the hole in our lives, and especially in the lives of everyone…
QUIRKS (www.stevearie.com.au) 7/10 Many musicians change their primary instrument in their teens, and the odd one (like guitarist Ralph Towner) in their 20s. But to spend 30 years as a double bassist in such stellar projects as Ten Part Invention and John Turnbull’s beat-poet show, Birth of the Cool, and…