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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]