Jazz Articles about The Necks

The Necks: Hanging Gardens

by Glenn Astarita
March 1, 2002

This Australian jazz-fusion trio creates quite a bit of music magic via a relatively simple framework. Marked by a repetitive passage that sways in and out of the overall proceedings for the better part of sixty-minutes, the musicians embroider a cavalcade of trance grooves amid drummer, Tony Buck’s peppery beats. Thus, jazzy riffs coalesce with Miles’ “In A Silent Way” style imagery as illusory patterns ride above the rhythm section’s pumping motifs. Keyboardist, Chris Abrahams’ steers the production with his ...