AJAZZ ARTICLES & REVIEWS 2019-
This folder contains reviews and articles written by Eric Myers for the Australian Jazz Museum’s magazine AJAZZ. Myers commenced writing occasional pieces for the magazine in November, 2019. Readers may click on the INDEX button for a list of reviews and articles in this folder. Click on the title of any review or article that you wish to read.
Harry Mitchell
HARRY MITCHELL QUARTET ALBUM “MARA”
Reviewed by Eric Myers
AJAZZ 84, November, 2019
Three members of this brilliant Perth quartet were featured on the Jamie Oehlers album Night Train, released about six months ago: saxophonist Oehlers, pianist Harry Mitchell and drummer Ben Vanderwal. So Mara is another opportunity to savour the playing of three leading musicians from WA, where members of a relatively small jazz community punch well above their weight. The fourth player is bassist Karl Florisson…
BURKE GOULD QUARTET ALBUM “LIVE AGAIN!”
Reviewed by Eric Myers
AJAZZ 85, February 2020
This brilliant album is a mixture of highly developed free improvisation on the one hand, but balanced throughout by the exploration of harmonic structures which are unusually beautiful and melodic. The CD runs for an hour, with five tracks only, so the musicians are stretching out…
ANDREW DICKESON ALBUM “GROOVE!”
Reviewed by Eric Myers
AJAZZ 85, February, 2020
In a recent radio interview Sydney drummer Andrew Dickeson described Wayne Kelly as an “undiscovered genius.” While that may be an overstatement, Kelly is certainly a very fine jazz pianist, tucked away in Canberra, out of the limelight. On the evidence of his recorded work I wish his playing could be heard more in Sydney. If he were playing at a nearby jazz club, I’d be there with enthusiasm, expecting the bop idiom to be given a solid workout…