Jazz Articles about The Necks

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Live From Tallinn: The Necks, Phlox & The Jimi Tenor Band

by Martin Longley
May 2, 2026

The Necks Paavli Kultuurivabrik Tallinn, Estonia April 25, 2026 The Necks revel in their improvisatory nature, but they do observe a handful of self-imposed parameters. Their free-form excursions customarily evolve over the span of around an hour, and their gigs usually involve a pair of sets, mostly navigating contrasting approaches. Here they are at Tallinn's major alternative venue, which adopts a standing-space stance, just as if we're inhabiting a rock gig. This eternally-running Australian trio ...

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New Music From Lovato, Burrows, Garcia, Faye, and More

by Bob Osborne
December 11, 2025

On this edition a set of 12 pieces tracing rhythmic invention, ensemble interplay, and tonal contrast across multiple continents and decades. The selections move from suite-based composition and archival live recordings to contemporary quartet work, solo piano abstraction, and layered studio arrangements. Formats include trio, orchestra, and collaborative studio ensemble, with instrumentation spanning reeds, brass, percussion, electronics, and voice. Styles range from modal jazz and Latin jazz to avant-garde improvisation and structured groove, with label origins including independent, cooperative, and ...

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Jazz and Wine of Peace 2025, Part 2

by Luca A. d'Agostino
November 17, 2025

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The Necks a Firenze per A Jazz Supreme

by Neri Pollastri
November 26, 2024

The Necks Sala Vanni A Jazz Supreme--Musicus Concentus Firenze 8 novembre 2024 Per la prima volta a Firenze, all'interno della rassegna A Jazz Supreme del Musicus Concentus, venerdì 8 novembre sono saliti sul palco della Sala Vanni The Necks, notissimo piano trio australiano di lungo corso (si sono formati nel 1987 e i suoi membri hanno tutti passato la sessantina), dalla cifra decisamente originale. Tenendo fede alla loro abituale modalità di ...

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The Necks: Bleed

by Rob Garratt
November 23, 2024

There is a diverting theory that modernist developments in the visual arts were mirrored in the evolving language of jazz: the rigid melodies of classic swing analogous with the formal representation of realism; the harmonic blurring of modalism an impressionistic step towards ambiguity; and the breakdown of order that came with free jazz the divisive audio equivalent of abstract expressionism. It is a compelling if imperfect notion: Jackson Pollack's “action painting" was famously fueled by his jazz LP ...

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Duration Show - Joshua Abrams, The Necks, Made to Break, etc.

by David Brown
April 18, 2023

This week, I'm interested in exploring duration. 100 years ago this month, Louis Armstrong made his first recordings with King Joe Oliver. Those tracks were all 3 minutes or less--not a great vehicle for improvisation--but they made it work. Over time our ability to capture longer artistic expression increased, but attention spans vary. Tonight, we'll be spinning six tracks lasting between 15 and 20 minutes. Each artist using the time differently. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live ...

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The Necks: Three

by Mike Jurkovic
April 21, 2020

With their stubbornly spiky, hold-onto-your-hat mindset firmly rooted, a high fever runs wild on Three, The Necks' twenty-first release in its thirty-three year, unhindered-by-genre career. It starts like most of the trio's existential, kaleidoscopic excursions do: some minimalist point of blurred melodic frenzy is acted upon and the rest becomes an amalgam of theory and system... jazz, rock, industrial, whatever suits the moment. It can be irresponsibly reckless, remotely ambient, soulfully rewarding, cantankerous, glaringly indulgent or plain brilliant at any ...