by Kev Rowland | Aug 6, 2023 | Reviews
Formed in Mumbai by American guitarist /composer D. Wood and Indian bassist/composer Storms, here we have one of the more unusual styles of jazz fusion I have come across. The Indica Project combines the classical and folk traditions of India together with sounds...
by Kev Rowland | Aug 6, 2023 | Reviews
Bassoon is not an instrument normally associate with jazz, and while Rabinowitz is not the first to play bassoon within the genre (Garvin Bushell and Frank Trumbauer took some recorded solos in the 1920s and Illinois Jacquet and Yusef Lateef were among those who...
by Kev Rowland | Aug 6, 2023 | Reviews
McGrath is a saxophonist who grew up in Puerto Rico, and although he is now in America he has kept very close to the musical traditions he grew up with. For some years he has been involved with Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Centre in Chicago, and when in 2017 they...
by Kev Rowland | Aug 6, 2023 | Reviews
Back in 2018, four mates got together to have some fun and ending up recording an album just for the hell of it, never expecting anything to come from it, but it kicked up quite a storm and sooner or later thoughts started to turn to another one. Of course, that...
by Kev Rowland | Jul 30, 2023 | Reviews
I first came across Wellington quartet This Silent Divide a few years ago with their excellent single, “Lucinda”, since when I have followed their career with interest and even managed to see them live when they came up to Auckland (and have the t-shirt to prove it,...
