Results for "Toby Hall"

Toby Hall

Sounds Have Dreams

By Asteroid Ekosystem

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Cirrus; Storm Advance; April Dance; Blue Drift; Catch Breath; Off Axis; Open To; Perpetual Fantastic; Space Buzz; Sun Spiral; Sounds Have Dreams; A Slower Dance.

Asteroid Ekosystem: Sounds Have Dreams

by Glenn Astarita
May 9, 2026

Sounds Have Dreams is the audacious third album (and second studio effort) from Asteroid Ekosystem, the project led by Australian pianist and composer Alister Spence. He has assembled an unlikely quartet that sidesteps genre boundaries: punk and post-punk guitarist Ed Kuepper, The Necks bassist Lloyd Swanton, and the precise, inventive drummer Toby Hall. Spence ...

Gather

By Alister Spence

Label: Alister Spence Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Gathering; Homeland Introduction; Homeland; Crossed Over; Beginning Of The End Of The Beginning; Falling From the Top Of The Sky; Moment Between; Antidote For Lean Times.

Alister Spence Trio: Gather

by Glenn Astarita
July 26, 2025

Alister Spence Trio's Gather arrives like a mischievous breeze, stirring the leaves of modern jazz with a blend of precision and playful abandon. This Australian ensemble--Alister Spence on piano, Lloyd Swanton on double bass, and Toby Hall on drums--delivers an album that feels like a conversation among old friends who happen to be virtuosos. The eight ...

Asteroid Ekosystem

By Alister Spence

Label: Alister Spence Music
Released: 2021

Live At The Side On Café

By Paul Cutlan

Label: ABC Jazz
Released: 2019

Alister Spence: Live

by Duncan Heining
February 17, 2016

Alister Spence Trio: Live is, apparently, this Australian group's sixth recording. Sadly, the others have passed me by and pianist Alister Spence only recently crossed my CD deck in the company of Scottish saxophonist / improviser Raymond MacDonald. To be honest, much contemporary piano trio jazz--EST, Brad Mehldau, The Necks--bores me. Perhaps unfairly so but to ...

Hip Flask 2

By Roger Manins

Label: Rattle Records
Released: 2014

Sandy Evans: When the Sky Cries Rainbows

by Ian Patterson
January 27, 2012

The multifaceted Sandy Evans is often described as one of Australia's finest jazz musicians and composers. True enough, but as When the Sky Cries Rainbows amply demonstrates, this saxophonist surely ranks as one of the best contemporary jazz composers/musicians anywhere. A musical response to her husband, clarinetist Tony Gorman's multiple sclerosis, this sixty-minute, suite-like work conveys ...