505, June 1 8.5/10 Gary Bartz knows that truth has a beauty deeper than mere aesthetics. When the American puts his alto saxophone to his lips he tells you some things you already know and some things you don’t, but he never tells a musical lie. He is deeply connected…
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The 3 Out: MOVE (Be! Jazz/Birdland) 8.5/10 Judy Bailey: YOU & THE NIGHT & THE MUSIC (B. Free/Birdland) 8/10 The Charlie Munro Quartet: EASTERN HORIZONS (B. Free/Birdland) 9.5/10 The venue still exists. It lurks just around the corner from the up-ramp to Kings Cross. You creep down steep stairs into…
UNSEEN SCENES (Studio Songs) 7.5/10 Respective Scene has the bass and drums initially lurching in off-kilter lockstep through a light mist of electronics. But as first the piano and then the tenor saxophone join the lockstep unravels and engrossing exchanges build over the simple root material. It is among the…