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January 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Seemingly By Fluke

Twelve years old when we finally got a CD player – not the last house in the street I’m sure, but certainly not the first. First album though, what a strange one, ‘Tutu’ by Miles Davis. Not his worst but a very strange entry point. I’m so grateful, I loved that album. And I dig […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 80s, Billy Hart, CD, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis, Omar Hakim, Poem, Poem: Seemingly By Fluke, Seemingly By Fluke, Sonny Rollins, Tutu ·

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December 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Dinner Party: Dinner Party – Dessert

Dinner Party Dinner Party: Dessert Sounds of Crenshaw / EMPIRE In the middle of this year (the American summer) a supergroup rather quietly snuck into place. All of its members had worked together in various combinations or at least mixed in the same musical circles – but it’s a stacked deck: Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 9th Wonder, Album Review, Alt. Versions, Bilal, Dessert, Dinner Party, Dinner Party: Dessert, Dinner Party: Dinner Party - Dessert, Edit, EP, Herbie Hancock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Kamasi Washington, Mini-Album, Phoelix, R'n'B, Remix, Robert Glasper, Snoop Dogg, Sounds of Crenshaw / EMPIRE, Supergroup, Tank and The Bangas, Tarriona 'Tank' Ball, Terrace Martin, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Connie Han: Iron Starlet

Connie Han Iron Starlet Mack Avenue What an extraordinary talent Connie Han is – and what a band! This is her third album out front and her best to date. And as it bursts from the speakers, with all the surety that jazz was never dead, has not only always had a pulse but is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Wysaske, Black Codes (From The Underground), Connie Han, Connie Han: Iron Starlet, Herbie Hancock, Iron Starlet, Ivan Taylor, Jazz, Jeremy Pelt, Keith Jarrett, Mack Avenue, McCoy Tyner, Piano, Walter Smith III, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Mike Clark: Indigo Blue Live At The Iridium

Mike Clark Indigo Blue Live At The Iridium Ropeadope Mike Clark literally wrote the book on funk drumming. And I’m using the word ‘literally’ quite correctly here – see here for the very book he wrote, called: Funk Drumming. He is best known, to this day, for the records that made his name, started his […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Antonio Ferao, Christian McBride, Donald Harrison Jr, Drums, Herbie Hancock, Indigo Blue, Indigo Blue Live At The Iridium, Live At The Iridium, Mike Clark, Mike Clark: Indigo Blue Live At The Iridium, Randy Brecker, Rob Dixon, The Headhunters, Thrust, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems 

Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn  The Transitory Poems  ECM  Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, two of the finest pianists of the current crop, first worked together back in the early and mid-00s as part of Roscoe Mitchell’s band – this album marks their first work together as a duo.   If you love/d the Herbie Hancock/Chick Corea album or any of Keith Jarrett’s solo piano explorations then you’ll want to sign […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2018), 2019, Album Review, Budapest, Chick Corea, Classical, Craig Taborn, Duo, ECM, Francesco Turrisi, Herbie Hancock, Instrumental, Jazz, Keith Jarrett, Live, Live at Liszt Academy, Pianists, Piano, The Transitory Poems, Vijay Iyer, Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 167: Marnie Karmelita previews The Wellington Jazz Festival 

Welcome to episode 167 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Here’s a conversation with Marnie Karmelita – she’s the […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Alicia Olatuja, Ambrose Akinmusire, Anchor, Anchor/FM, Apple, Arts, Arts Festival, Chat, Conversation, ep 167, Herbie Hancock, Interview, iTunes, Jazz Festival, La Petite Chocolat, Lex French, Marnie Karmelita, Marnie Karmelita previews The Wellington Jazz Festival, Music, Podcast, Podcasts, Rodger Fox, Shelagh Magadza, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast # 167:, Sweetman Podcast # 167: Marnie Karmelita, Sweetman Podcast # 167: Marnie Karmelita previews The Wellington Jazz Festival, T Leaf T, The Wellington Jazz Festival, Wellington, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Ghost-Note: Swagism

Ghost-Note  Swagism  ROPEADOPE  If Kamasi Washington is exploring the Albert Ayler/Coltrane connections in a modern landscape then Ghost-Note is doing something similar with templates created by Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock…which is to say on Swagism they hint at the late-80s/early-90s hip-hop influenced and inflected funk and R’n’B jams of those masters whilst also adhering to the types of grooves Hancock and Jones […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acid-Jazz, Album Review, Ghost-Note, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Kamasi Washington, Quincy Jones, Snarky Puppy, Swagism, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Jazz Festival: 2019 Headliners Announced

The Wellington Jazz Festival usually pulls together a great line-up, we’re talking over 100 gigs in just a few days. A real showcase for local talent – and of course some international headliners. The full reveal is a week or so away – but the international headliners have been confirmed. And it’s one of the best […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, 5-9 June, Alicia Olatuja, Ambrose Akinmusire, Ghost-Note, Herbie Hancock, https://www.jazzfestival.nz/, Jazz, Jazz Festival, June, PR, Promo, Wellington, Wellington Jazz Festival, Wellington Jazz Festival: 2019 Headliners Announced, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 400

Bobby McFerrin, Spontaneous Inventions (1986) I’ve loved Bobby McFerrin and I’ve hated him too – and just recently I’ve decided the guy might be a genius. Yes, it’s hard to give his career an appraisal that’s fair because Don’t Worry Be Happy gets in the way. But I was taken with this album – and […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1986, 80s, a capella, Bobby McFerri, Bobby McFerrin, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Live, LP, Manhattan Transfer, Record, Robin Williams, Spontaneous Inventions, The Vinyl Countdown # 400, Thinkin' About Your Body, Vinyl, Vocal, Vocalist, Vocals ·

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October 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Always Starting, Never Ending

jesus, FUCK! – Alan Bennett is 83. I better get watching – and reading – his books, his TV, his films, scripts… Shit! There’s too much for me. (I’ve read some, seen some – but there’s much to revisit, and so much to try, to find, to hunt, to line up). A name gets mentioned, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Actors, Alan Bennett, Always Starting, Always Starting Never Ending, Art, artists, Bob Dylan, Books, Clive James, Comedians, Comics, Film, Filmmakers, Garry Trudeau, Graphic Novels, Herbie Hancock, Joan Didion, Musicians, Never Ending, Norman Lear, Patti Smith, Peter Cook, Plays, Poem, Robert Crumb, Roger McGough, Theatre, Tracey Ullman, TV, Tyshawn Sorey, Woody Allen, Writers ·

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May 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Mickey Roker

It was sad to hear of the passing of the great jazz drummer, Mickey Roker. He was 84, he died of natural causes, he played drums his entire adult life – Roker worked with so many of the greats. He was a force, as a progressive bop drummer, as a legendary sideman. I have records […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art Farmer, Bobby Hutcherson, Dizzy Gillespie, Drummer, Drums, Eulogy, Gene Ammons, Gene Harris, Hank Jones, Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, Jazz, Joe Pass, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Mickey Roker, Milt Jackson, MJQ, Modern Jazz Quartet, R.I.P., R.I.P. Mickey Roker, Ray Brown, Ray Bryant, Roy Ayers, Sonny Rollins, Stanley Turrentine ·

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November 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Drummers You Just Can’t Beat: # 14 – Vinnie Colaiuta

I first met him (in a musical sense) with the Sting album Ten Summoner’s Tales. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing – the sharp cymbal sound, the crisp snare; the fact that Colaiuta had his head around 5/4 and 7/4 time signatures – playing in 7/8 here on St Augustine In Hell. I think […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alf, Barbra Streisand, Don Henley, Drummer, Drummers You Just Can't Beat, Drummers You Just Can't Beat # 14, Drummers You Just Can’t Beat: # 14 – Vinnie Colaiuta, Drumming, Drums, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock, Jeff Beck, Joe's Garage, Peter Gabriel, Steely Dan, Stewart Copeland, Sting, Ten Summoner's Tales, The Police, Vinnie, Vinnie Colaiuta ·
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