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The Eye is the First Circle

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Eye is the First Circle; What a Time to Be Alive; Hill of Grace; Meet Me at Phoenix Street; Song for Cleo; Still We Rise; Love and War.

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Vanessa Perica Orchestra: The Eye is the First Circle

Read "The Eye is the First Circle" reviewed by Jack Bowers


In a review of Love Is a Temporary Madness, the debut recording by Australian composer/arranger Vanessa Perica, the observation was made that “Perica's impact in the realm of big-band jazz should be anything but temporary." Perica's second album, The Eye Is the First Circle, has added an exclamation point to that assertion. Again, ...

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Love is a Temporary Madness

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Spaccanapoli; Dance of the Zinfandels; Woody's Lament; Saint Lazare; Love Is a Temporary Madness; Scar for Charlie; Rebrahmanization.

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Vanessa Perica: Love is a Temporary Madness

Read "Love is a Temporary Madness" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Even as the year 2020 has slid ignobly into the dustbin of history, music-lovers have been buoyed by a number of encouraging signs that the future of big-band jazz is in capable hands. While splendid recordings by old hands Mike Barone, Steve Spiegl, Mark Masters and Maria Schneider have helped keep the flame burning brightly, their ...

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Abstract Playgrounds

Label: Earshift Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: (outtakes from the); Snake Charmers' Convention; Shithead; (intakes from the) Snake Charmers; Deleuzian Lawn Bowls; Forest Song; Afro 1; Afro 2; Time with Black Water; Remember what we Said.

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Monash Sessions: Tony Gould and Mike Nock

Label: Jazzhead (Australia)
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1. Indifference 07:53 2. Somewhere Called Home 06:39 3. Transitions 06:59 4. Reflections 04:48 5. Natal Lagal 06:54 6. Lamp is Low 07:38 7. Embracing You 05:50 8.Palhaco 08:00 9. Duality 02:16

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Tim Davies Big Band: The Expensive Train Set

Read "The Expensive Train Set" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Tim Davies, who led a big band in his native Australia before relocating to Los Angeles in 2000, reprises that experience on parts of The Expensive Train Set, returning home to supervise his Melbourne ensemble on four selections, presiding over his Los Angeles-based band on four others, and somehow managing to blend the two groups together ...

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Monash Sessions: Kenny Werner

Label: Jazzhead (Australia)
Released: 2015
Track listing: 1. Yump 10:45 2. Autumn in 3 08:44 3. Follow Up 10:12 4. Lorraine 06:34 5. Ivoronics 07:20 6. Chach 05:18 7. Balloons 08:22 8. Freewheelin' 08:07 9. Beauty Secrets 12:38

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Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra: Return Journey

Read "Return Journey" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Return Journey, the fourth recording --and first in four years --by Daryl McKenzie's splendid Jazz Orchestra from Melbourne, Australia, was inspired in part by McKenzie's visit to the States in 2012 wherein he renewed ties with many of his onetime musical mates and colleagues and briefly returned “home" to the University of North Texas in Denton. ...


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