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Melbourne guitarist Nick Freer releases "The Unsuspecting"

September 29, 2015

The Unsuspecting is Melbourne guitarist and composer Nick Freer’s latest offering. An all Australian affair, The Unsuspecting unites some of the finest Australian jazz-fusion talent based locally and internationally. Exploring a diverse repertoire, The Unsuspecting engages with post-tonal harmony from a Schoenberg perspective rather than the jazz lexicon. Fans of Allan Holdsworth, Chick Corea and Tribal ...

News: Music Industry

Alfi Records US Label Launch: Sandoval, Turcio, Orozco, Chindamo/Black, Albare

September 17, 2015

ALFI Records Celebrates International Label with Diverse Releases Featuring Arturo Sandoval, Joe Chindamo/Zoe Black, Phil Turcio, César Orozco and the Company’s Own Founder, Albare ALFI Records, the new international, multicultural record label founded by virtuoso jazz guitarist Albert Dadon (aka Albare) celebrates its worldwide launch with five releases by a roster of lauded musicians, including 10-time ...

Article: Live Review

Brisbane International Jazz Festival 2015

by Ian Patterson
June 23, 2015

Brisbane International Jazz Festival Various locations Brisbane, Australia June 3-8, 2015 Celebrating its third edition, the Brisbane International Jazz Festival may be one of Australia's youngest jazz festivals but the state of Queensland is no stranger to jazz. The non-profit organisation Jazz Queensland has been curating concerts, developing audiences and working ...

Article: Album Review

Isaiah B. Brunt: Just the Way That It Goes

Read "Just the Way That It Goes" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 31, 2015

Less amorphous than most present-day jazz has become, contemporary blues has remained, more or less integrated and within recognizable genre. Not that classifications provide anything more than an inferior roadmap to the new listener, they do come in handy. Australian Guitarist, composer, and producer Isaiah B. Brunt has managed to stake out a corner of the ...

Article: Album Review

Albare: Only Human

Read "Only Human" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 9, 2015

Australian guitarist Albare (Albert Dadon) celebrates ethnic diversity and cultural threads common to all people with the effervescent Only Human. Together with pianist Phil Turcio they have penned a set of ten catchy, impressionistic tunes that the band interprets with tastefully understated performances. The breezy music coalesces around a few clean and elementary motifs ...

Article: Album Review

Casey Golden Trio: Outliers

Read "Outliers" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
April 17, 2015

In the past twenty years the jazz piano trio has branched out from the standards format into e.s.t..--influenced, virtuosity-leaning trios and song-based units like the Neil Cowley Trio and GoGo Penguin. Of course, that's not the full piano trio picture, but it's refreshing to come across an alternative to both the traditional American trio and the ...

News: Recording

Dan Papirany Release A New Album Titled "2015"

April 9, 2015

Pianist Dan Papirany's new album entitled 2015 was recorded in Queensland Australia. It features Papirany on piano playing mostly standards and one original tune. The music has a mix of swing and Latin. 2015 was recorded over several days in the beginning of April 2015 and is now available via digital downloads through cdbaby.com. Dan's approach ...

Article: Album Review

Marcos Eduardo Villalta: Sir Kep's Mummy Tummy

Read "Sir Kep's Mummy Tummy" reviewed by Stephen Hornby

by Stephen Hornby
April 1, 2015

We live in a world in which anyone who has a laptop has access to an almost infinite array of sonic possibilities and can draw inspiration from any corner of the earth or pocket in time. This kind of freedom can be creatively paralysing for some while others may respond by narrowing their gaze. Marcos Eduardo ...

Article: Album Review

Roil: Raft of the Meadows

Read "Raft of the Meadows" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
March 30, 2015

Established in 2007, Roil comprises three Australians from the Sydney jazz scene, sharing pianist Chris Abrahams with that other better known Antipodean combo The Necks. Like that last outfit Roil manifests as an egalitarian concern, continuing in the lineage trailblazed by Bill Evans in the 1960s via Howard Riley's trio with Barry Guy a decade later. ...

Article: Album Review

Exhaustion / Kris Wanders: Exhaustion / Kris Wanders

Read "Exhaustion / Kris Wanders" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 24, 2015

The marriage of punk rock to free jazz is a natural fit. Both art forms are DIY; punk a rejection of corporate rock-n-roll of the 1970s and free jazz, the stasis of jazz, some fifty years post-birth. Today, we find Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore playing with The Thing, Borbetomagus, The Ex and Ken Vandermark, John Zorn's ...