NINE LIVES SLIPPING — HAYDEN JONES
CD REVIEW JONES’S voice skates, floats, skips, darts and dives over an ever-changing sea of notes. The words — most from the pen of partner Deanne Adams — dance lightly, insightfully, into life’s pivotal and precious moments. Hayden, as on his ARIA-nominated 1997 album Whisper Not, is ably accompanied. This line-up — Mark Fitzgibbon on piano, Eugene Ball on trumpet, Sam Anning on bass and … Continue reading NINE LIVES SLIPPING — HAYDEN JONES
GRAEME BELL & HIS DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND — 1947 & 1948 Sydney Prague Paris London
CD REVIEW WHAT began in the 1930s as Gay’s Swing Band at Deepdene Scout Hall took Graeme and Roger Bell and their Dixieland revivalists to Prague in 1947 (helped by the Eureka Youth League), then newspaper front pages and the Hot Club in Paris and to London’s Soho in 1948 to start the London Jazz Club, which initiated “jazz for dancing”. The band was greeted … Continue reading GRAEME BELL & HIS DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND — 1947 & 1948 Sydney Prague Paris London
LOST CITY — ANTON DELECCA QUARTET
CD REVIEW THERE’S a cool elegance, complexity and delicacy of touch to tenor saxophonist Delecca’s second quartet album, but one track stands out. On Regulated, Delecca and Marc Hannaford on piano build excitement through barely suppressed tension, ably backed by Daniel Farrugia on drums and Jonathan Zion on acoustic bass. It’s gripping, draining and satisfying. The all-new quartet, plus Elvis Aljus on congas in the … Continue reading LOST CITY — ANTON DELECCA QUARTET