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Amanda Suwondo: Revisit
by Mike Jurkovic
It's genuinely odd and oddly gratifying that a young native Indonesian whom, after traveling to LA to study with Tamir Hendelman, mentor in New York with Christian Sands, and who now calls the land down under home, can remind one of America's lost, defiant lilt and how badly we need to get it back. Gigging around Sydney has brought Amanda Suwondo many an accolade, and those early and late sets have bequeathed the pianist with a graceful, Dave ...
read moreStefano Rocco Quartet: A New Night, A New Day.
by Edward Blanco
Sydney, Australia-based Italian guitarist Stefano Rocco may not be a familiar name to most jazz audiences, especially without a discography of his own. Well, that now changes with the launch of his debut album as leader, the crisp and audacious A New Night, A New Day. After studies at Middlesex University, London and playing as a sideman in the local music scene, he relocated to Sydney armed with a degree in Jazz and quickly began to immerse himself in the ...
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