John Shand Posts

December 21, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg ‘72 (ECM/Fuse) Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Last Dance (ECM/Fuse) Jim Black Trio: Actuality (Winter & Winter/Birdland) By the age of two he was singing professionally. “Yodelling Cowboy Charlie”, they called him. That was in the Haden Family Band, a star attraction on the US country music…

December 17, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, December 11 Ian Anderson may be the first rock star to lead a cover band doing his own material. Having fronted Jethro Tull from 1967 until its apparent demise earlier this year he now performs under his own name a live repertoire that is billed as the “best…

December 16, 2014 / Features - Archive

Richard Havers Thames & Hudson, $95 In its heyday the Blue Note jazz label was just like a great band: a fortuitous combination of disparate skills and personalities. Its founder, Alfred Lion, produced the albums, and his partner, Francis Wolff, took the moody, evocative photographs gracing covers designed by the…