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.
JON HUNT ALBUM: HOUSE RENT BLUES
Reviewed by Eric Myers
AJAZZ 87, November 2020
This impressive album is from Jon Hunt, a sophisticated musician originally from Adelaide, who plays clarinet and saxophones in traditional and swing styles. He holds a PhD from Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music where he taught clarinet for six years. Moving to Melbourne in 2013, he went on to the US in 2017, where he’s been playing in what one might call the pre-bebop scene, in the “mainstream” styles that existed before the bebop revolution of the 1940s, and are still being played today…
AJAZZ 88, February, 2021
MY JAZZ ODYSSEY
by Eric Myers
AJAZZ 88, February, 2021
I was born in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1945, but grew up in Singleton, a small town in the Hunter Valley. Studying classical piano as a child, my connection with jazz during those years was tenuous. My teacher, a nun at the local Convent, would teach me stride piano, courtesy of the Art Shefte method but – significantly - only at the end of each year, after the classical exams were over. Jazz was then thought to be a trivial pursuit - for fun only - while classical music was regarded as Serious Music – a view which, in certain circles, I’m sorry to say, still survives to this day. In the late 50s, aged about 13, I visited my uncle and his family in Sydney, and my cousin played me the Dave Brubeck Quartet album Time Out, which I found fascinating…
The Pocket Trio
POCKET TRIO ALBUM “ALL AT ONCE”
Reviewed by Eric Myers
AJAZZ 90, August, 2021
In Sydney it is rare to hear a group which more exemplifies the piano/bass/drums tradition in the jazz canon than the Pocket Trio. Pianist Andrew Scott, bassist Maximillian Alduca and drummer Tim Geldens are three relatively young, highly brilliant musicians who’ve been performing every Tuesday night at Moya’s Juniper Lounge in Redfern for over four years. The result is the creation of an unusually well-rehearsed and well-integrated trio, with all players showing a virtuosic knowledge of the inner structures of the tunes in their repertoire…