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.
Miroslav Bukovsky
TEN PART INVENTION
by Anonymous
On The Street, July 20, 1987
Now that Charlie Watts has organized and recorded with a really big band (30 plus musicians), it may become fashionable for star musicians to indulge themselves by forming groups of similar size. There's nothing yet on the Australian horizon led by say, Iva Davies or Joe Camilleri, but a few larger modern jazz outfits like Miroslav Bukovsky's Major Minority, Bruce Cale's Orchestra and Ten Part Invention are, for me, required listening. Already this year Major Minority (nine pieces) played a wild concert at the Piccadilly and a few days later Bruce Cale's band (11 pieces) played host to US tenor man Ernie Watts in two memorable gigs at The Basement…
Roger Frampton
A TEN PART INVENTION THAT SHONE SO BRIGHTLY IT HURT
by John Clare/Gail Brennan
Sydney Morning Herald, July 23, 1987
John Pochee's 10-piece band showed some of the inevitable symptoms of not having played in public for eight months, but in its second set all tentativeness lifted and the potential to be one of the most exciting ensembles in Australian jazz shone so brightly that it hurt. Well, it hurt in retrospect. At the time most listeners felt no pain, but after the dust had settled it was hard not to agonise over the limited opportunities for a band like this. Taking a more positive view, they do have two more jobs lined up — at the Piccadilly on Sunday 26 and Tuesday 28 — by which time Ten Part Invention should have reached the heights it attained in its second Basement appearance last year…
Lynden Barber
JAZZ MOLES REJOICE
by Lynden Barber
Sydney Morning Herald, December 24, 1987
Earlier this year, I witnessed one of the greatest jazz concerts I'd seen in ages when John Pochée 's Ten Part Invention took the stage at the (then) Piccadilly Hotel in the Cross, crack pianist Roger Frampton and drummer Pochée driving the band along like the drivers of a steaming express train on the downhill run. Had they been legendary American players charging big bucks at the door, you'd have felt it was money well spent, but the aggregate hasn't received a fraction of the attention that overseas performers have attracted for similar projects. Who said the cultural cringe was dead?