Jazz Articles about Luke Sweeting

About Luke Sweeting

Album Review

Max Alduca is an Australian in-demand bassist who regularly tours nationally and internationally. On this debut album as a leader, he draws inspiration from a personal journey through music, reflecting themes of interconnectedness, trust and hope while paying homage to his teachers and collaborators. It is a culmination of his experiences touring Scandinavia with a Danish band and living in Stockholm for some time. After returning from intensive study in New York City in 2022, he began weaving elements of ...

Album Review

Sam Gill's Scattered: Perspectival

Read "Perspectival" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
May 24, 2020

Sydney-based saxophonist Sam Gill maintains a prodigious range of projects, ranging from the heady post-bop intricacies of his Coursed Waters quartet to Mind on Fire, an exploratory duo with his brother, vibraphonist Brad Gill. What animates Gill's music is a search for ways of bringing freedom to compositional forms, and finding surprising detours that defy expectations. This modus operandi is amply present on Perspectival, a subdued chamber jazz recording that merges rigor with indeterminacy, performed with consummate skill by Scattered, ...