7th october 2004

ANDY FIDDES

SURVIVAL of the FIDDES

"Australian jazz is getting richer, partly because audiences are more educated, partly because each new generation has more sources of inspiration to absorb. Trumpeter Andrew Fiddes’s compositions continue to elicit open-ended creativity from his young colleagues. So-called modern jazz now constitutes over two-thirds of the music’s history, and Fiddes draws on it as he pleases. An impressive debut."

John Shand, Limelight Magazine (ABC Australia), August 2003.