Few players – though brilliant on paper – could make something this good out of such freedom. Chops alone can’t do it – in fact chops often work in the opposite way. It is the subsuming of the ego and the meshing of consciousnesses that will get the players, and we the fortunate audience, there. And, here, The Hunters & Pointers do it every time.
Category: Album Releases
Milman’s pieces tend to ride on slippery Afro and Latin grooves, have inbuilt airiness and be laced with lyrical melodies. Who better to breathe life into such material than Bukovsky (trumpet, flugelhorn), James Greening (trombone, trumpet, pocket trumpet), Jeremy Sawkins (guitars), Alister Spence (piano) and Fabian Hevia (drums, percussion)?
What you can also hear is Daniel Susnjar’s easy dexterity and his knack of playing right inside the music.
What Felucca’s CD itself reminded me was that jazz, as a contemporary music, is being fed constantly by many influences, with the interesting paradox that many, if not most, younger jazz musicians can be more open to these influences and ideas than some in their audiences.
Alluvium (Alluvium Records) May 2014 Tiny Hearts Review by Mick Paddon Jazz and improvised music is performed in a wide variety of combinations of instruments […] Read More
When we knew we were going to be talking about Lekker on the AustralianJazz.net podcast, we thought it might be good to ask him a […] Read More
Paris-based Canberra Musician Alex Stuart has released a new CD today through Gaya Music Productions / Abeille Musique Interested in reviewing Place to be for […] Read More
‘an ingenious and dramatic ride, a deft examination of the spectrum of Ben Hauptmann’s musical ambition’
Rivett has broken cover not with yet another musical artefact from a schooled and accomplished improvising musician, but with a true work of the imagination.
‘…his trio has played together intermittently without homicidal incident since 2011.’