John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

June 11, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

The 3 Out: MOVE (Be! Jazz/Birdland) 8.5/10 Judy Bailey: YOU & THE NIGHT & THE MUSIC (B. Free/Birdland) 8/10 The Charlie Munro Quartet: EASTERN HORIZONS (B. Free/Birdland) 9.5/10 The venue still exists. It lurks just around the corner from the up-ramp to Kings Cross. You creep down steep stairs into…

June 10, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

UNSEEN SCENES (Studio Songs) 7.5/10 Respective Scene has the bass and drums initially lurching in off-kilter lockstep through a light mist of electronics. But as first the piano and then the tenor saxophone join the lockstep unravels and engrossing exchanges build over the simple root material. It is among the…

June 9, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

The Joan, May 22 6/10 Jazz singer Hetty Kate reminds me of a good champagne with some bottle age: simultaneously effervescent and restrained. She also boasts natural elegance, a pretty voice devoid of any harshness, excellent diction (notable on a fleet Love Me or Leave Me) and a breezy rhythmic…