The Shadow Knows What He Knows
After eight years Bob Dylan returns with his first double album of original songs since Blonde On Blonde and it’s an absolute masterpiece. By Michael Goldberg. Bob Dylan is 79 years old and he knows it. […]
CD Reviews
Loretta Palmeiro and Mark Isaacs – All Who Travel With Us (Independent, Digital release)
By Des Cowley. As I write, we’ve been living under a cloud for some three months. The last gig I attended was on 15 March, a performance by Sydney bassist Joseph Franklin held at Jazzlab […]
Mark Isaacs – Forgotten Fields
Reviewed by Des Cowley. Mark Isaacs – Forgotten Fields (Gracemusic/MGM, Digital release) Pablo Picasso once famously said: “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child”. It strikes […]
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Vanessa Perica Orchestra – Love is a Temporary Madness
Reviewed by Des Cowley. Vanessa Perica Orchestra – Love is a Temporary Madness (Independent) Big bands in jazz have a long and illustrious history. On the one side, we can point to the powerhouse swing […]
Ross McHenry – Nothing Remains Unchanged (First Word Records)
Reviewed by Des Cowley. Ross McHenry is an award-winning bassist, composer and producer, originally hailing from Adelaide. An innovative and restless musician, his music to date has genre-hopped across jazz, afrobeat, electronic, and chamber music. […]
Harry Tinney – Kingsnake (Independent)
Reviewed by Des Cowley. Harry Tinney is a young Melbourne guitarist, and recent graduate from Monash University jazz studies where he was awarded the 2018 Allan Zavod Composition Prize. He’s been making waves around the […]
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This World – Mike Nock, Hamish Stuart, Julien Wilson, Jonathan Zwartz
This World – Mike Nock, Hamish Stuart, Julien Wilson, Jonathan Zwartz (Lionsharecords) By Des Cowley This album brings together four luminaries of the Australian jazz scene, all leaders in their own right. The simple fact […]
Tribute to Jazz Guitar Legend Ike Isaacs
Review by Des Cowley. VARIOUS ARTISTS: We Like Ike: 100th Birthday Tribute to Jazz Guitar Legend Ike Isaacs (Triangle 7 / The Planet Company/MGM) While guitarist Ike Isaacs (1919-1996) is not exactly a household name, his […]
Xylouris White: The Sisypheans – A Wondorusly Odd Beast
Xylouris White is a wondrously odd beast. A duo birthed in Melbourne, comprised of a Cretan lute devotee, and one of the most joyously unorthodox drummers in modern music, their immersive, deeply resonant records – a deep, […]
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Bob Dylan’s Country Life: In a Nashville studio with Johnny Cash!
TRAVELIN’ THROUGH 1967-1969: THE BOOTLEG SERIES, VOL.15 By Michael Goldberg. Bob Dylan had vanished. In the midst of a 1966 world tour in which he played his recent rock music with the future members of […]