jOHN Pochée BIOGRAPHY
This folder contains reviews and articles pertaining to Eric Myers’s biography of the late Australian drummer/bandleader John Pochée, who died in November, 2022, Readers can click on the INDEX button for a list of reviews or articles in this folder.
John Pochée
INVENTION IS A DREAM BAND
by Julie Earle
Gold Coast Bulletin, Friday July 8, 1990
John Pochée, the musical director behind Ten Part Invention, describes the group as his “dream band”. John formed the band, which critics say will set a new standard in modern jazz, for the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1986. "My original concept was to have a band with my friends in it," he said. "I have known most of the guys in the band for 20 or 30 years, and there is also some young talent." John can recall touring Canada with the band's alto sax player, Bernie McGann, in 1956…
Cameron Undy, Roger Frampton, John Pochée
PUBLICITY MATERIAL ARMIDALE JAZZ & ART FESTIVAL JULY 1990
John Pochée, sometimes known as 'the silver fox', was commissioned by the Adelaide Festival in 1986 to form the band Ten Part Invention, bringing together some of the most exciting talent in Australia. Bernie McGann, Pochée’s friend and partner for 30 years commands attention with his virile, inventive and searching style. Then there's pianist and composer, Roger Frampton, frenetic, exploratory and surprising. Add to this the original compositions of Miroslav Bukovsky and Roger Frampton and the rest of the band, and you have pure energy and innovation in jazz…
Alexander Fischer & Daniel Kramer
THE JAZNOST DUO: WHEN HOSPITALITY TURNS HOT
by Gail Brennan/John Clare
Sydney Morning Herald, October 2, 1990
Different criteria must apply when reviewing jazz from Russia. The isolation is very real, as a member of the Australian band Clarion Fracture Zone confirmed. He gave some Russian musicians tapes of Miles Davis's Four And More and Live Evil. Indeed, these landmarks had never been available to them, and they were astounded by what they heard. Further, many Russian jazz musicians are classically trained. A certain stiffness might therefore be expected, just as a certain inappropriate looseness might be expected from an exclusively jazz-trained musician playing classical music. The allowances that had to be made in the case of trumpeter Alexander Fischer and pianist Daniel Kramer were surprisingly small…