“I don’t wait to be asked to join a band that plays a style that I am interested in – I just put one together myself. It’s extremely hard work keeping it all going but very rewarding at the same time.”
Hammerhead Launch Wednesday 13 August, Venue 505, Surry Hills By David Sampson Less than a year before his premature death in 2008, I asked Tony Hobbs, one of Australia’s most passionate saxophonists, if he had any plans for a new band. ‘I guess I’m just a hard-bop muso’, he replied. ‘Who wants to hear hard …
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When I listen to music that has an important place in history I sometimes gaze out the window and feel the here and now more intensely, while also feeling myself in the time when this particular style emerged. I do the same with Haydn, Ornette Coleman and the Beatles. I’m not sure why, but it makes you feel very alive.
