Lloyd Swanton

Gather

By Alister Spence

Label: Alister Spence Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Gathering; Homeland Introduction; Homeland; Crossed Over; Beginning Of The End Of The Beginning; Falling From the Top Of The Sky; Moment Between; Antidote For Lean Times.

Alister Spence Trio: Gather

by Glenn Astarita
July 26, 2025

Alister Spence Trio's Gather arrives like a mischievous breeze, stirring the leaves of modern jazz with a blend of precision and playful abandon. This Australian ensemble--Alister Spence on piano, Lloyd Swanton on double bass, and Toby Hall on drums--delivers an album that feels like a conversation among old friends who happen to be virtuosos. The eight ...

Max Alduca: Monastery

by Barry O'Sullivan
July 1, 2025

Max Alduca is an Australian in-demand bassist who regularly tours nationally and internationally. On this debut album as a leader, he draws inspiration from a personal journey through music, reflecting themes of interconnectedness, trust and hope while paying homage to his teachers and collaborators. It is a culmination of his experiences touring Scandinavia with a Danish ...

Mountain To Sea

By Chris Cody

Label: Chris Cody Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Stepping Out; Soprano; Journey; Piano; Mountains; Alto; Dream; Bass; Quiet; Slow; Gathering

The Necks a Firenze per A Jazz Supreme

by Neri Pollastri
November 26, 2024

The Necks Sala Vanni A Jazz Supreme--Musicus Concentus Firenze 8 novembre 2024 Per la prima volta a Firenze, all'interno della rassegna A Jazz Supreme del Musicus Concentus, venerd�� 8 novembre sono saliti sul palco della Sala Vanni The Necks, notissimo piano trio australiano di lungo corso (si sono formati ...

The Vampires: Nightjar

by Pat Youngspiel
May 7, 2023

Australian saxophonist Jeremy Rose's admiration for minimalist trio The Necks is of great depth, to the extent that he published an essay on the group, entitled “Memory and Mindfulness in the Musical Rituals of the Necks," examining musical ritualistic practices “beyond the African American realm capable of scaffolding transcendent experience." And he is not the only ...

The Outsider

By Chris Cody

Label: Chris Cody Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Procession; Anticipation; The Outsider; la Goutte D'Or; Catching the Bug; The Truth; Alone; Reflection; Waiting For You

Asteroid Ekosystem

By Alister Spence

Label: Alister Spence Music
Released: 2021

Three

By The Necks

Label: Northern Spy
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bloom; Lovelock; Further.