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June 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Newbop Quintet (June 10, Wellington)

Newbop Quintet Meow, Wellington Jazz Festival Thursday, June 10 An Auckland “supergroup” of session stalwarts was put together to sell classic hard bop-era jazz to casual fans, to purists, to, well, anyone that might turn up. It was a shame more people weren’t there to hear them at Wellington’s Jazz Festival performance, the group’s Capital […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2021, Bop, Covers, Festival, Frank Gibson Jr., Gig Review, Gig Review: Newbop Quintet (June 10, Hard Bop, Jazz, Jazz Festival, June 10, Kevin Field, Live, Live Gig, Meow, Mike Booth, Newbop Quintet, Pete France, Standards, Thursday, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Wellington, Wellington Jazz Festival, Wellington Jazz Festival 2021, Wil Goodinson ·

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December 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Dixon Nacey: The Edge of Chaos

Dixon Nacey The Edge of Chaos Rattle Auckland-based guitarist and teacher Dixon Nacey has recorded for Rattle previously as part of the trio Samson Nacey Haines – here with a record under his own name he pulls together a few of the usual suspects (Kevin Field on piano, Roger Manins manning the saxes, Andy Keegan […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Andy Keegan, Dixon Nacey, Dixon Nacey: The Edge of Chaos, Guitar, Guitarist, Jazz, John Scofield, Kevin Field, Kiwi, NZ, Olivier Holland, Rattle, Rattle Records, Roger Manins, The Edge of Chaos, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Dog: Dog

Dog Dog Rattle When I first heard Kevin Field’s piano playing – nearly two  decades ago now – I likened it to the work McCoy Tyner offered up on several key John Coltrane recordings. There was just something there in the tone, in the spacing, the phrasing – and there it is again toward the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Auckland, Dog, Jazz, John Coltrane, Jonathan Crayford, Kevin Field, McCoy Tyner, NZ, Olivier Holland, Rattle, Roger Manins, Ron Samsom ·

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