Recording: Sunstone

Artist: Sunstone

Song: You've Got to Have Freedom [composer: Pharoah Sanders]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), June 2, 2023.

Sunstone - You've Got to Have Freedom

Some joyfully-blasting explorations through standards and spiritual jazz jams from this crew of younger musicians. Adrian Russouw (double bass) was the most familiar face to me, and from my digging it looks like there are some different folks shifting in and out, but so far as I can make out the lineup here was completed by Luke Nickel (trombone), Ali Rashid (sax), Eugene Kwong (sax), Ezra Schell (drums) and Matthew O'Halloran (piano). (Do correct me if I'm wrong there!)

This gig was a solid reminder that there is a whole cadre of musicians who have been honing their chops while there were fewer gigs in the past few years — hopefully they keep getting more chances to play and we get more chances to hear them.