More Next Blog» Create Blog Sign In Canberra Jazz blog Promoting modern jazz and other arts in Canberra, Australia 27 January 2014 SoundOut2014/1 (Friday night) continues... CJ Blog Continues ... Return to >> CanberraJazz.net I was particularly interested in CanberraJazz.net's reports & pics the paired bassists, especially CJ: Promoting modern jazz in Canberra, given one was playing my bass. Australia. Slawek and Clayton, both bass, CJ is brought to you by Eric Pozza, long time with Cor piano and Sean drums. jazz lover, bassist, and CJ's author, editor, This was a more conventional photographer, webmaster, owner and general dogs body. format, and the masculine side of the night. Strong from the > Click on pics to view larger images start, then into tortured, Initials in the Labels/Names index below are pressured, intense, manic for contributors other than Eric playing. Piano was punctuated Subscribe and with some harmony; the basses were bowed, pizzed, explored, tapped, loud and This work by Eric Pozza is licensed under a intense; the drums were Creative Commons Attribution- sometimes rabid, never steady, NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License. all fills and explosions and space and just some quieter passages. > See my full names index below ... I was interested in the tones and the aggression of it all while somewhat fretfull for what the Search CJBlog instruments were enduring, respectful for the search for Search newness, aware of the excessiveness and volume of it all, dismissive of some of the CJ Blog Archive techniques. (This was an early and wrong impression. I was ▼ 2014 (77) pleasantly surprised by the bass ► May (20) ► Apr (12) chops I heard next day from ► Mar (17) both bassists. But as I've found ► Feb (13) before, manic intensity at this ▼ Jan (15) level drives out the staid Canberra-Gothenburg connections traditions and correct techniques of many arts; often, but not SoundOut2014/2 (Saturday afternoon) always, with justification). If SoundOut2014/1 (Friday night) these guys were playing their continues... SoundOut2014/1 (Friday night) own basses, I may have relaxed AYO2014/8 (Orch 4) and warmed to it, but as it was, AYO2014/07 (Orch 3) I didn't relax enough to enjoy in AYO2014/6 (Brass) this performance. (BTW, the bass AYO2014/5 (Comp) was perfectly OK, as promised). A jazz interlude AYO2014/4 (Chamber) It still perplexes me that new AYO2014/3 (Perc) music is so often played on old AYO2014/2 (Orch 2) instruments. Given the AYO2014/1 (Orch 1) Old friends traditional instrumentation, I Happy New Year warm to a musician who displays ► 2013 (202) impressive traditional technique ► 2012 (195) or knowledge. I noticed this with ► 2011 (174) bassist Clayton when he was ► 2010 (137) warming up for the end-of- ► 2009 (125) session jam with a very steady ► 2008 (119) and nicely developed bass ► 2007 (93) groove, and also with his ► 2006 (58) traditionally-styled pizz and ► 2005 (32) ostinatoes during that jam. The harmonies and feels may have been new, but the techniques More Canberra blogs and groove were of long established. The group Cyberhalides Jazz development was more unitonal Wayfaring Chocolate and textured and atmospheric, but here was a family or Whispering Gums historical connection with other music. So too, Richard's baritone sax in this set, that picked up on Labels / Names index the groove and permuted it. The first set had Richard on soprano sax and drum playing with 1927 Bar (1) clarinet, two altos and one tenor 1984 (1) 20th Century Dog (1) sax. The whole merged in my 3ofmillions (1) ears into a melange of tonguings 3x2 (2) and tones and drones, but in 606 Jazz Club (1) openings I could pick out some 8 ball (1) wonderful ostinato lines from 9/11 (2) Richard, fast, clear, nicely 93 Project (2) structured around a quick _motion (1) passage and a long note, with A de los Santos (1) slow minimalist change. This was A-Trane (1) impressive chops and lovely, A.I.R. (An Infinity Room) (1) understated accompaniment. It Aaron Chew (1) was not always obvious and Aaron Choulai (1) sometimes hidden in the mix, Aaron Flower (6) but impressive when it appears. Aaron Goldberg (1) So too, with bass clarinetist Aaron McCoullough (1) Krista in this session. She had ABC Radio National (1) classical tone, toyed with varying ABC666 (1) lengthy intervals that sat so intriguingly and gloriously, even ABCFM (3) Abel Cross (6) contrapuntally, in this busy mix. The distinct tone helps. In another Abigail Burrows (1) set, Kim's guitar was somewhat a crossover in technical matters. I Abraxas (1) felt it held its session together Academy of Ancient Music (1) with sweet fingerpicking and Acca Daiquiris (1) regular strumming, although ACO2 (2) only sometimes of chords; Acoustic Path (1) othertimes it was open strings or ACT election 2012 (1) harmonics, so undefined ActewAGL (1) Actis Dato Quartet (1) harmonies. But this worked, Active Pure Sound (1) especially interspersed with a Ada Goldsmith (1) similar-sounding zither-like Adam Donaldson (1) instrument. It worked also due Adam Guzowski (1) to clarity of the instrumental Adam Hadley (1) mix. Richard on gourdaphone Adam Kabak (1) and Reuben on trumpet and Adam Mamula (1) these are distinct sounds. This is Adam May (1) also where I appreciated the Adam Orlando (1) skilled techniques in much new Adam Pache (1) music. I know Reuben as both a Adam Simmons (3) bopper and a more experimental Adam Sofo (1) musician. Here it was all breath Adam Solta (1) and tongue and unformed notes Adam Szabo (1) and mutes. It's a technique Adam Turdy (1) requiring competence and Adams Dharma at Big Sur (1) training, although not traditional. Adelaide (8) Not surprisingly, it can take Adelaide Cello Festival (1) Admin (6) knowledge of the instrument and Adnoisiam (1) the form to understand its Adrian Biodnar (1) complexities. Knowing a Adrian Cunningham (1) crossover artist can help. Adrian Klumpes (2) Adrian Sherriff (1) SoundOut is our local incarnation Adrian Tonkovicz (2) of this worldwide branch of new Adrian Walter (2) music. Not easy, always a test to Affiliation (1) these ears, but a worthy wakeup Agamemnon (1) call to your own conservative Agartha Jazz Club (1) tendencies. Looking forward to Agnieszka Kosacka (1) another session. ABC FM were Ahmad Jamal (1) recording, Julian Day was MC- Ahmad Saifuddih (1) ing. You can hear SO Aidan Lowe (27) performances over coming Aimee Fitzgerald (1) weeks on Julian's New Music Up Air and Space Museum (1) Late. Air Raid Tavern (1) AJ (2) Aki Espiritu (1) Psithurism Trio + played the first Aki Takase (1) set, Richard Johnson (soprano Al McGrath (3) sax), Rhys Butler (alto sax), John Porter (tenor sax), Krista Al McGrath-Kerr (1) Martynes (bass clarinet) and Rosalind Hall (alto sax). Second set Alan Hicks (3) was Slawek Janicki (double bass), Sean Baxter (drums), Cor Fuhler Alan Lee. Allan Penicook (1) (piano) and Clayton Thomas (double bass). Last set was Kim Myhr Alan Richards (1) (guitar), Reuben Lewis (trumpet) and Richard Johnson Alan Vivian (1) (gourdophone, drum, soprano sax). The end-of-night collective Alana Valentine (1) improvisation comprised Richard Johnson (baritone sax), Rhys AlasNoAxis (1) Butler (alto sax), John Porter (tenor sax), Clayton Thomas (double Alastair Kerr (1) bass), Cor Fuhler (guitar) and Reuben Lewis (trumpet). 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