Gefion (ECM) More than most instrumentalists guitarists influence one another across idioms as well as generations. Django Reinhardt, BB King, Paco de Lucia, Chet Atkins and Jimi Hendrix are examples, as, more recently, is Bill Frisell, who has clearly inspired the brilliant Danish guitarist Jacob Bro. It being an influence…
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Power of the Idea (Jazzhead) Although saxophonist Robert Burke calls the album Power of the Idea, what actually pushes you back in your seat is the power of the playing. It is raw and visceral, riding on momentum as unstoppable as a driverless bulldozer with cruise control. Burke and his…
Roslyn Packer Theatre, November 28 It’s all there in Lear: ultimate acts of cruelty and kindness; pinnacles of despair and triumphalism; arrogantly wielded power and a descent into beggarly madness. Masterly constructed, it is not a play of plot and sub-plots, but of tightly interwoven narratives, so that although…