THE OUTSIDER 8/10 Like traffic, music can be free-flowing, bustling, impatient or static. Pianist/composer Chris Cody begins his tribute to the great French writer Albert Camus with the frenetic Procession, inspired by an African funeral parade that Cody witnessed. The rhythm initially churns beneath the stabbing melody before skittering through…
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Keith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert 8/10 Dale Barlow Quintet with Bernie McGann: Memories of McGann 8/10 They’re like children, records, living on after the artist has retired or died – proof that he or she once breathed and sweated music. And, a bit like illegitimate or adopted offspring, new ones can suddenly…
Disruption! The Voice of the Drums (Earshift) 8/10 Everything about this project is unusual. Jeremy Rose’s compositions, for instance, were reverse-engineered from ideas first espoused by Simon Barker and Chloe Kim on their respective albums of solo drums. These were so complete in themselves that Rose’s challenge was to find…