Afro Blue Impressions (Concord) If Louis Armstrong was jazz’s great innovator (and its heart) and Duke Ellington its key composer, John Coltrane remains its supreme improviser. In extending the saxophone’s potential he also stretched the music’s very fabric. Never had such boiling energy been unleashed; never had exultancy and anguish…
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Sometimes it could be an audience crusher: a sound that gained such mass as to have a physical impact, even though you knew it was just an alto saxophone. But then David Ades (pronounced “Addiss”) generated a singularly wide, wild and potent braying. He also summoned surging joy and…
Sound Lounge, November 16 Don’t miss this show if it returns. It gives a too-rare chance to hear pop singer Jade MacRae reveal her potential to be the finest jazz vocalist Australia has produced. This was the second incarnation of Bloodlines, a collaboration between MacRae, her pianist father Dave and…