ArtSound - Friday Night Live 2010 performances

January 22 – "Senator" Eugene Wright – American jazz bassist best known for his work as a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, in particular on the group's most famous album "Time Out" (1959) with pianist Dave Brubeck, drummer Jow Morello and saxophonist Paul Desmond. This session, recorded a few years ago at the Polish White Eagle Club, features Eugene Wright in concert with Sydney saxophonist Anita Thomas, and locals Mike Price on guitar and Mark Sutton on drums.

January 8 – Steve & Mal Sedergreen – Mistaken Identity 'jazz family'. Recorded Live at Paris Cat June 209 and Bennets Lane 1998.

Febuary 5 – Steve Newcomb and Hannah Macklin – recorded at the Trinity Bar Dickson by Eric Pozza.

February 26 – Miles Davis special provided exclusively to Artsound by Radio Netherlands. You’ll hear the Rein de Graff trio with guest musicians in two sets recorded live in Nick Vollbrecht’s Jazzhus in Laren in the Netherlands. Rein de Graff on piano, Marius Beets on bass, Eric Ineka on drums, Sjoerd Dykhuisen on tenor sax, Benjamin Herman on alto, and featuring Jarbra Hoegendyke on trumpet. The session is called “The Musings of Miles” and includes the well-known standards that have become household names in the jazz field, all compositions of Miles Davis.

March 12 – Cleo Laine and The John Dankworth Group – recorded by Radio Netherlands in 2000 in concert at Nick Vollebregt's Jazzcafe in the Netherlands.

March 26 – Sydney Women’s Jazz Collective recorded at the God’s Café March 2010. Featuring Sandy Evans (tenor and soprano saxes), Alex Silver (Trombone), Jess Green (guitar),Monique Lysiak (piano), Zoe Hauptmann (bass), Ali foster (drums), and Stephanie Badman (alto sax). Recorded by Eric Pozza, Produced by Chris Deacon

April 9 – Final concert in the Generations Tour of the Mark Ginsberg Band, recorded at the God’s Café April 2010. Featuring Mark Ginsberg – saxophones, Greg Coffin – keyboard, Carl Dannicliffe – bass and Tim Firth – drums

April 23 – Jacam Manricks recorded at The University of Canberra's Innovation Centre in March 2010 – featuring Jacam Manricks on sax, Aaron Goldberg on piano, Andrew Emmer on bass and Danny Fisher on drums.

May 7 – Lloyd Swanton, Sandy Evans, James Greening, Fabian Hevia, Jonathan Pease, Bruce Reid and Hamish Stuart. Recorded live in concert at the Sound Lounge, Sydney, Australia.

May 21 – The three leading tenors of Europe; Ferdinand Povel (Tenor sax), Tony Lakatos (Tenor sax), Frank Delle (Tenor sax), Lex Jasper (piano), Martin Wind (bass) and Martijn Vink (drums). Recorded at Jazzpodium De Tor.

June 4th – a concert recorded live at the late Nick Vollebregt’s Jazzcafe in Laren, The Netherlands. Featuring Rob van den Broek –piano; Dick Vennik – tenor/soprano sax; Harry Emmery – bass; Arnout Gerritse – drums; Jan Oosthof, Jan Hollander, Henk Heyink, Ruud Breuls – trumpets, Bart van Lier; Paul woesthuis – trombones; Martin van de Berg – bass trombone.

Reuben Lewis Quintet

The Reuben Lewis Quintet is a group led by trumpeter Reuben Lewis and features some of Canberra’s finest young musicians. The music of this ensemble explores many styles within the contemporary jazz idiom, combined with classical, latin and reggae influences.

The band has a strong focus on individual, group and textural improvisation combined with arranged and structured composition and aims to compose original music that is exciting, honest, adventurous and continually evolving.

The Reuben Lewis Quintet will be releasing their debut CD in early 2010 and features Reuben Lewis (Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn), Max Williams (Tenor Saxophone), Matthew Lustri (Guitar), Chris Pound (Bass) and Aidan Lowe (Drums).

In All Languages

Supernova

In All Languages is a new septet with a focus on original compositions and improvisation. It embraces music of many genres and a multiplicity of working methods. The group's focus is on the free exchange of ideas and keeping all aspects of the creative process open to experimentation. In All Languages functions as a sonic laboratory where anything is possible and where methodologies and aesthetics are mutable.

Matt Lustri – guitar
Simon Milman – double bass and bass guitar
Reuben Lewis – trumpet and flugelhorn
Andy Campbell – guitar
Alex Raupach – trumpet and flugelhorn
Aidan Lowe – drums
Thomas Fawcett – tenor sax

Nightless Lovers

Nightless Lovers, named eponymously after a Percy Mayfield tune, are a thinly veiled side project of Leo Joseph where he has decided to stray from using his usual Key Grip band moniker. That’s because Nightless Lovers are dedicated only to performing Percy Mayfield’s tunes the way he recorded them in the 1950s. You got it: Nightless Lovers – All Percy Mayfield, All The Time. In the Nightless Lovers, Tony Haley brings to new life Mayfield’s own evocative lyrics and vocals, the Gripping Stuff Horn Section recreates the superb horn lines of that genius Maxwell Davis (why bother trying to improve perfection?), and Leo Joseph on piano, Mitch Preston on drums and Phil Jenkins on bass hold the show down underneath.

Los Jovenes del Tango

Los Jovenes

A new Canberra quintet of classical and jazz musicians that plays traditional and modern dance music from Argentina – tangos, milongas, valses and more.

Liena Lacey – harp, viola
Simon Milman – contrabass
Natalya Tacheci – vocals
Valdis Thomann – accordion
Lathika Vithanage – violin

Johnny Huckle

Nightless Lovers

Award winning singer Johnny Huckle has been performing around the country for over thirty years. John is more than a singer and musicia, he is an entertainer with an infectious ability to engage his audience to the max. One minute he is comical and funny, the next moving and poignant.

With a big voice and dynamic guitar work, John is one hugh package of talent. his musical diversity includes the blues, country, contemporary, folk, R&B and rock.

Alex Raupach Quartet

The Alex Raupach Quartet is a new group from Canberra, dedicated to playing original music and participating in the truly global conversation of modern jazz. The group strives for lyricism, harmonic fascination and groove in both composition and interactive improvisation.

The Quartet features:

Alex Raupach – trumpet
Andy Butler – piano
Simon Milman – bass
John Milton – drums
Rachel Thoms – vocals

_motion (Melbourne)

_motion

_motion is the creative talents of Andrew Brooks, Berish Bilander, Nick Abbey and Hugh Harvey. Performing original contemporary improvised music, _motion draws on jazz, contemporary classical, experimental rock and minimalism, the group attempts to blur the lines between composition and improvisation, with a focus on spontaneous interaction.

Andy Campbell Quartet

Alex Raupach Quartet

Andy Campbell presents a new quartet featuring his latest compositions. joined by some great young musicians, each member has their own voice to add and the music will hopefully reflect everyones individual musical journey up until this point.

The Quartet features:

Andy Campbell – Guitar
Andy Butler – Piano
Chris Pound – Bass
Luke Keenan-Brown – Drums

Frequently Asked Questions

_motion

Frequently Asked Questions is a four-piece jazz band which has been providing its intimate, sophisticated sound to Canberra and other local venues since 2002, playing a wide repertoire of jazz standards interspersed with blues, lounge and Latin.

FAQ features Sarah Byrne on vocals, James Groves on piano, Peter McDonald on electric bass (plus occasional tuba), and recent arrival, since last year’s Friday Night Live session, Bruce Smyth on drums.

Link: www.frequentlyaskedquestions.com.au

Anton Wurzer & Samuel Berthod

Anton Wurzer and Samuel Berthod

An international duo featuring Canberra-based accordion player Anton Wurzer and French clarinet player Samuel Berthod will be entertaining Canberra audiences for one hour as an amazing instrumental duo that came together by pure chance.

The duo will perform mostly originals not heard in public before and a number freshly arranged covers.

Lakeside Circus

_motion

Lakeside Circus formed in early 2009 to experiment with playing creative music that has no limit to style or compositional tradition. Performing around the Canberra region and after a brief N.S.W. tour, the band has accumulated a strong repertoire of originals that features ‘personality’ improvisations and solos. In 2010 the band ventures forth to do more playing and continue with ever changing ideas and approaches to original music. They have made plans to release their first album in August this year made of all original music.

Patrick Langdon – Trombone
Mark Levers – Drums
Andrew Fedorovitch – Alto Sax
Max Williams – Tenor Sax
Shane Spellman – Trumpet
Alec Coulson – Double Bass
Jono Lake – Piano

Jim Fuller Trio

The Jim Fuller trio has recently resurfaced after a long break, and this will be its first public hearing since this formation started. Jim Fuller and Mark Sutton have performed together many times and Lachlan has fit into the group beatifully on Bass.

Jim Fuller has been performing jazz for 20 years with some of Australia's finest musicians including Dale Barlow, Bernie Mcgann, Mike Knock and Cameron Undy.

Mark Sutton has been playing drums at the highest level in Australia for more than 20 years, and has performed with all the above listed players, and also with James Muller and Carl Dewherst.

Lachlan Coventry is a fine guitarist in his own right and also plays bass. He has been performing around Canberra's Jazz scene for 12 years and has performed with, among others, Bernie Mcgann, Miroslav Bhucosky and John Mackey.

Rafe and The Well Dressed

Engaging lyrics, memorable arrangements, talented and immaculately dressed musicians. Rafe and The Well Dressed are a local outfit who bring life to the left-of-centre songs written by local musician, Rafe Morris. Formed earlier this year, Rafe and the Well Dressed got off to a flying start with a sell-out-season cabaret at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre, receiving rave reviews and many a kind word. This will be their first performance since their successful début and excitement is high!

Rafe and The Well-Dressed consists of Rafe Morris (songwriter, vocals, guitar, arrangements), along with Bec Taylor (piano, backing vocals), Zach Raffan (trumpet), Nicola Menser Hearn (bass clarinet), Catherine Keely (double bass) and Nick Peddle (drums).

Luke Sweeting and Rachael Thoms

Luke and Rachael have been performing and collaborating for the past 3 years after meeting through the ANU School of Music Jazz Department. During that time they have formed a great friendship and developed a unique musical chemistry. Luke and Rachael have recently recorded their debut EP as a duo; "Sad as a Gypsy, Crazy as a Loon" featuring unique and beautiful arrangements of several well loved jazz standards such as; Skylark, Someone to Watch Over Me, and Round Midnight.

The duo are currently working on their next project, an album of mainly original works.

Luke is a Masters Graduate from the ANU School of Music, and has recently returned from performances in China at the Shanghai World Expo. An emerging improviser and composer, Luke has received two awards; the Dennis Griffin Scholarship to undertake his post graduate studies, as well as the Sprogis Woods Jazz Composition Competition at the Canberra International Music Festival. He is a highly sort after teacher and performer, and a valued member of the ANU Jazz faculty, teaching in the pre-tertiary and MUST programs.

Rachael will be graduating from the Bachelor of Music Jazz Performance degree at the end of this year. She trained classically for many years prior to commencing her jazz studies and intends to return to her classical roots next year as a post-grad student in ANU's classical voice department. Rachael is also a member of the jazz school's pre-tertiary teaching staff.

The Daniel Hunter Quartet

Ex Canberra guitarist Daniel Hunter has been living in Geneva for the past 3 years where he leads the Daniel Hunter Trio, with whom he has been performing throughout Switzerland and France for the last 12 months. The trio was formed to showcase Daniel's original compositions which have been composed over a number of years, on both sides of the globe. The tunes feature rich harmonies and bright melodies with clear influences from John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Mikkel Ploug.

Back in Australia for Christmas, Daniel is taking the opportunity to put together an Australian version of his band, this time as a quartet with some of the best most active players on the local scene.

Daniel Hunter Quartet: Daniel Hunter - Guitar, Niels Rosendahl - Tenor Sax, Phil Jenkins - Bass and Aiden Lowe - Drums.