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… Adam Simmons is producing some of the most incredible jazz in Australia or anywhere else.

/  Raphael Solarsh - Arts Hub  /

 

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At a time when funding support for art and artists is diminishing, The Usefulness of Art attempts to put forth an alternative scenario. If the composition asks the question of whether art plays a critical role in our culture, our personal lives, these musicians and this performance responded with a resounding affirmation.”

/  Des Cowley - Australian Book Review  /

 

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Travelling Tales is another marvellously assured step in Simmons' own journey as musician and composer, and a potent demonstration of the usefulness – no, the necessity – of art as an expression of our collective humanity.”

/  Jessica Nicholas - The AGe  /