Bryce Rohde and Jack Brokensha arrived in Canada in 1953 filled with optimism about pursuing their musical careers in the Americas. The first music they heard, however, was the sound of a cell door slamming, having been jailed for landing with neither funds nor means of support. They were bailed…
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High Energy Jazz From The Sydney Underground (michaelgordon.bandcamp.com) 8/10 You know that feeling when you are idly daydreaming on the tracks and suddenly find the Indian Pacific rushing at you? Of course you do. Pressing play on this album is like that. I don’t just mean it generates unstoppable momentum,…
Concert Hall, February 25 9/10 Jazz, like all improvisational idioms, is a dialogue, and it is this element that Wynton Marsalis especially emphasises in his Swing Symphony – that and the rhythm implicit in the title. Marsalis’s third symphony is a seven-movement work for unamplified jazz band and orchestra, and…