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Chris Abrahams Chris was born in Oamaru, New Zealand but grew up in Sydney. He became very active in the Sydney jazz scene in the early eighties playing with modern jazz groups including Mark Simmonds’ Freeboppers and The Keys Music Orchestra. With Lloyd he formed the 60’s modern jazz-influenced The Benders in 1982. The band broke up in 1985 after having released three albums - “E”, “False Laughter” and “Distance”. In 1984 Chris recorded and released his first solo piano album - “Piano”, followed in 1986 by "Walk". In 1985 Chris became a founding member of the Sydney indie rock band The Sparklers
Max Alduca: Monastery
by Barry O'Sullivan
Max Alduca is an Australian in-demand bassist who regularly tours nationally and internationally. On this debut album as a leader, he draws inspiration from a personal journey through music, reflecting themes of interconnectedness, trust and hope while paying homage to his teachers and collaborators. It is a culmination of his experiences touring Scandinavia with a Danish ...
John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2024
by John Sharpe
From the 200 or so discs that I heard in 2024, here are the ten new issues and three gems saved from obscurity, which gave me the most pleasure. As always these selections are entirely subjective, and take no account of the many other albums which I would no doubt have loved if I had heard ...
The Necks: Bleed
by Rob Garratt
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 ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023
by Ludovico Granvassu
If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...
Duration Show - Joshua Abrams, The Necks, Made to Break, etc.
by David Brown
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 ...
Arooj Aftab, The Necks, The Vampires, Sara Caswell & More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
At a time in which the frantic pace of this world is making record executives explore the idea of one-minute songs to satisfy the swipe-crazed Instagram generation, this playlist if full of music that may feel like a welcome act of counter-culture. Extended form songs, elegant songs, strange songs... Enjoy the ride! Playlist Ben ...
New Releases From Diego Rivera, Matt Greenwood, Nicholas Brust, And More!
by Bob Osborne
On this show variety is the name of the game with a selection of new releases from Matt Greenwood, Nicholas Brust, Astroturf Noise—Sam Day Harmet, Sana Nagano & Zachary Swanson, The Necks, Falkner Evans, Alex Weiss, Tomer Cohen, and Diego Rivera.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Matt Greenwood “Dehyah" from Atlas (Self Released) 00:43 Nicholas Brust ...
Zack Lober, Orbit, Chris Potter & Family Band
by Maurice Hogue
This one's kind of all over the place: pure free jazz from the German trio of saxophonist Frank Paul Schubert, guitarist Kazuhisa Uchihashi & drummer Klaus Kugel, hard nosed music from Chris Potter, English quartet, Family Band, trio music from France's Orbit and the Aussie avant-garde trio The Necks' latest, a further voyage into ZZAJ: Jazz ...
