SAND LINES (Earshift) 7/10 The dreamily enigmatic cover image is a perfect pointer to the musical contents. The expansive title track has skipping propulsion without ever seeming to burn any energy, and its melody and subsequent improvising dance across this propulsion without ever touching the ground. It is the musical…
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Camelot Lounge, May 20 8.5/10 This is the real multicultural Australia: neither threat, failure, myth nor aspiration, but a thumping reality. Migration can be a glue rather than a source of division, because it is something most of us share, even if coming from spectacularly diverse places. Express this diversity…
Randwick Town Hall, May 13 7/10 This concert may well not have happened. The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, the country’s preeminent large jazz ensemble, has just lost its Australia Council funding, and Randwick Council’s commendable Twilight Concert Series may well be jeopardised by forced council mergers. So we should be grateful…