Jerron Paxton's blues and Chloe Kim's basses
Jerron Paxton’s music sounds like it could have been unearthed from a time capsule buried in the 1920s or 30s. His new album of original songs, Things Done Changed, finds the multi-instrumentalist playing guitar, banjo, piano and harmonica across blues, folk, ragtime and old-time Black music styles. He tells Andy about being glued to the radio as a young child, his deep love of acoustic instruments, and the recipe for his grandmother’s salmon court bouillon. Chloe Kim has been on The Music Show in the past in her capacity as a drummer, but this time she’s on as a sort of wrangler (and composer) for six double basses. One of the six, Jacques Emery, joins her to tell Andy about the premiere of Music For Six Double Bassists at Sydney’s Phoenix Central Park – and how this quiet, oddly fragile big beast of the orchestra can operate amongst its own kind. Music heard in the show: Title: Music for Six Double Bassists Composer: Chloe Kim Artist: Paddy Fitzgerald (double bass), Oscar Neyland (double bass), Helen Svoboda (double bass), Harry Birch (double bass), Jonathan Zwartz (double bass), and Jacques Emery (double bass) Album: Music For Six Double Bassists Label: People Sound Title: What’s Gonna Become of Me Composer: Jerron Paxton Artist: Jerron Paxton Album: Things Done Changed Label: Smithsonian Folkways Title: Things Done Changed Composer: Jerron Paxton Artist: Jerron Paxton Album: Things Done Changed Label: Smithsonian Folkways Title: Little Zydeco Composer: Jerron Paxton Artist: Jerron Paxton Album: Things Done Changed Label: Smithsonian Folkways Title: Oxtail Blues Composer: Jerron Paxton Artist: Jerron Paxton Album: Things Done Changed Label: Smithsonian Folkways Title: Music for Six Double Bassists Composer: Chloe Kim Artist: Paddy Fitzgerald (double bass), Oscar Neyland (double bass), Helen Svoboda (double bass), Harry Birch (double bass), Jonathan Zwartz (double bass), and Jacques Emery (double bass) Album: Music For Six Double Bassists Recorded by Felix Abrahams and Nathan Moas, Audio courtesy of Phoenix Central Park and Judith Neilson AM Title: Eclipse Artist: Alter Boy Album: I Don’t Live Here Anymore Label: Independent release The Music Show was produced this week on Gadigal, Gundungurra and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Land. Engineers were Tim Jenkins, Simon Branthwaite, John Jacobs and Brendan O'Neill.