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.
Chris Cody
CHRIS CODY: MOUNTAIN TO SEA
Album review by Eric Myers
Music composed by Chris Cody + free improvisations
AJAZZ 106, August, 2025
For some reason I wasn’t expecting Mountain to Sea to be as good as it is. Perhaps I was spooked by the fact that there’s no drummer, and therefore the album has to be considered as something of an experiment. There’s an old truism in jazz which I’ve come to believe: change the drummer and you have a new band. But how do we categorise the music, when there’s no drummer to give the music its essential character? The instrumentation on Mountain to Sea is very unusual: a quartet with two saxophones atop a rhythm section of piano & bass…