Category: Album Reviews – Archive

December 21, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg ‘72 (ECM/Fuse) Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Last Dance (ECM/Fuse) Jim Black Trio: Actuality (Winter & Winter/Birdland) By the age of two he was singing professionally. “Yodelling Cowboy Charlie”, they called him. That was in the Haden Family Band, a star attraction on the US country music…

December 5, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

  John Coltrane: Offering (Verve)  Trevor Watts: Veracity (FMR) Cedar Walton: Reliving the Moment (HighNote/Planet) Various Artists: Black Fire! New Spirits! (Soul Jazz) He changed the lives of listeners, and he changed the course of jazz. John Coltrane inspired people to take up the saxophone or rethink the way they…

November 15, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

Tokyo 1972 (Splitrec) An alternative title for this extraordinary double album might have been The Shock Of The Now. That an album of improvisation made 42 years ago can sound so blindingly new is a marvel, and a tribute to the artistry of this ground-breaking Sydney band. In 1972 David…