Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

March 13, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot Lounge, March 6 8/10 George Xylouris’s is a voice in which you could imagine Homer intoning The Illiad 3,000 years ago, and part of the fascination of the music of Xylouris White is that it is a collision between two worlds. Xylouris champions the music of his native Crete,…

March 5, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, February 25 9/10 Jazz, like all improvisational idioms, is a dialogue, and it is this element that Wynton Marsalis especially emphasises in his Swing Symphony – that and the rhythm implicit in the title. Marsalis’s third symphony is a seven-movement work for unamplified jazz band and orchestra, and…

February 25, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Slide, February 18 8/10 We critics, overexposed to the good, the bad and the ugly, will die puzzling why the untalented X became a star and the gifted Y did not. Thankfully there is still time for the rest of the world to catch on to just how good Tim…