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The Idea of North: Live at The Powerhouse
by Barry O'Sullivan
Like the great vocal groups that have preceded them such as Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Singers Unlimited, The Swingle Singers and The Manhattan Transfer, The Idea of North has learned from the best and taken the art form to new levels with its Live at The Brisbane Powerhouse CD/DVD combo. This vocal ...
Mark Isaacs: Resurgence
by C. Michael Bailey
Australian pianist and composer Mark Isaacs has done more than most any other jazz musician to seal the fault line between serious modern jazz improvisation and “contemporary jazz or “adult oriented jazz. I tend to classify the former as the jazz father's and earlier genre traditionalists (bebop, hard bop, modal) and the latter as well-behaved, unobtrusive ...
Mark Isaacs: Resurgence
by John Kelman
After two albums exploring jazz standards and popular contemporary music--Keeping the Standards (Vorticity, 2004) and --Visions (Vorticity, 2006)--Australian pianist Mark Isaacs returns to original composition on Resurgence. A fixture on the Sydney scene, Isaacs has recruited his dream band for a strong program of contemporary mainstream jazz.. Isaac's American compatriots--bassist Jay Anderson, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and, ...
Ten Part Invention: Live at Wangaratta
by Jack Bowers
"Bittersweet, according to Webster, is anything that is “pleasant yet painful. And that is an apt description of Live at Wangaratta,, taped at the Jazz Festival bearing that name by the east Australian ensemble Ten Part Invention during a concert on the last day of October, 1999. All of the music for the occasion was written ...
Angels and Rascals
Label: ABC Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: The House; One; One Am I; Resting Place; Twenty-Ten; Angels and Rascals; The Wolf Pack; Tough Guy;
Prague 10; Machine Gun Piano; Life That Lingers; When Sometimes We Become What We Were Born
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The Andrea Keller Quartet: Angels and Rascals
by Bev Stapleton
British blues enthusiasts often reflect on how, in the '50s and early '60s, they chanced upon what seemed like music from another planet. Tracks heard on crackly US service radio frequencies, or the acquisition of the occasional record brought in by a merchant seaman uncle, opened up worlds of sound that bore no relation to what ...
Mike Nock's Bigsmallband: Live
by John Kelman
With relatively few recordings as a leader over a career that is now in its fifth decade, any new release from New Zealand pianist Mike Nock is an event. After living in the US for twenty years where, amongst other things, he was a member of the early fusion group Fourth Way, Nock returned to Australia. ...
