By John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald This one instantly passes the hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck test – that slightly creepy chill, not unlike the first waft of cool night air following a … Read More
By John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald When John Coltrane visited Nagasaki on a Japanese tour in 1966, 21 years after the atomic obliteration, he was not with his band … Read More
By John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald A LIFE BETWEEN (Soundsabound) ★★★★ Perhaps it was inevitable that Chase Baird would be a jazz saxophonist, with his first name referencing a Coltrane … Read More
By: John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald Aaron Whitby – COUSIN FROM ANOTHER PLANET (Ropeadope) ★★★½ Music, like storytelling, is partly the art of balancing the predictable and the unpredictable. You lead … Read More
By: John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald You have to be equally committed and imaginative to even think about doing it. The harp first appeared in jazz in 1934, and a … Read More
by John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald ★★★★ She’s spent her career enhancing the music of Michael Jackson, Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, Cher, Chaka Khan, Pink and others. But, as with … Read More
John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald ★★★★½ The impetus was Sly and the Family Stone’s In Time from the 1973 album Fresh, crowned by Andy Newmark’s drumming. Miles Davis walked into the rehearsal … Read More
John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald Andy Milne & Dapp Theory THE SEASONS OF BEING (Sunnyside) ★★★★☆ Ah, the old chestnut of music and healing. Even born sceptics like me subscribe … Read More
John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald If ever an opening line was going to transfix you, “I followed whiskey into the country of Legionella” should do it. The Kerouac-influenced poem Open Water is … Read More
John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quartet LONDON LIVE (ARC) ★★★★☆ No, I hadn’t heard of Jeff Siegel either, but the American drummer leads a storming band. This … Read More
