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.
Ben Winkelman
BEN WINKELMAN: HEARTBEAT
Album review by Eric Myers
AJAZZ 100, February, 2024
I reviewed Ben Winkelman’s fifth album Balance for The Australian in May, 2019, and drew attention to the challenge which his music presents to the listener. It has been a pleasure to return to that album, and compare it to Winkelman’s sixth album Heartbeat. Even if the latest album in many ways offers us more of the same, I feel it has given me a more sophisticated understanding of how to listen to Winkelman’s music… While Balance was somewhat dark, I feel that Heartbeat has a more melodic, optimistic feel about it. Winkelman wrote the nine compositions on Heartbeat during the first months of the Covid pandemic when New York was notoriously the worst affected city in the United States. No doubt this was an anxious time, but it was also simultaneously a period of hope and optimism for Winkelman, as he and his wife were awaiting the arrival of their first child…