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Newsletter #2

Presented by:
Make It Up Club, Half Bent, La Mama Musica, Lebowski's, Jazzhead and Sydney's Jazzgroove

The 2007 Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival is off to a cracking start with wonderful sets during the Federation Square free program by artists including Scott Tinkler, Fran Swinn and Nash Lee’s, Rabid Hawke.

The Commission Concert on Sunday was also a great event with each of the three performances enthralling the large audience. Please have a look at today’s Age (1/5 page 14) for Jessica Nicholas’ review of the concert.

Here’s a snippet:

The concert opened with two short sets by very different acts: Tristam Williams’ Diode and a trio led by Elana Stone. Williams introduced his set – an electro-acoustic experiment in real time – by walking down the steps of the auditorium as the sound of his trumpet reverberated through eight strategically-placed speakers. The next 20 minutes or so were acoustically intriguing (a slightly surreal combination of electronic processing, vocal and instrumental samples, and snippets of acoustic trumpet and drums)… Elana Stone appeared in a spare, luminous setting, accompanied by saxophonist Julien Wilson and guitarist Steve Magnusson. Without a bass or drumkit as anchor, Stone’s evocative melodies were allowed to breathe freely, creating a natural ebb and flow among the three performers. Magnusson and Wilson (both deeply intuitive musicians) played with admirable subtlety, their limpid lines emphasising the beauty and authenticity of Stone’s distinctive voice.

Colin Hopkins began his piece with a brief exploration on the strings inside the piano, making way for the actual string instruments in his ensemble as they created a drone-like, bowed resonance… A sense of space and serenity [linked] the four movements, which functioned as a series of dialogues between Hopkins’ trio and the string quartet. The trio passages were largely improvised, yet somehow shaped themselves as intuitive silhouettes of the strings’ composed parts.

Last night (Monday) La Mama Musica was packed for Vanessa Tomlinson and Mark Shepherd as was Lebowskis (Stephen Magnusson) and Bennetts Lane (Allan Browne’s Drunken Boat).

There’s so much more good music on this week. Please get out there and support local artists.

Tonight Sydney’s Jazzgroove presents Gerard Masters Trio and Trio Apoplectic at Bennetts Lane, and Make it Up Club hosts the premiere of Adam Simmons’ new project Harrow, with Falling Water Quartet and Tim Pledger Trio… amazing!!!

Don’t forget Big Arse Sunday this Sunday from 2pm at 303 then in the evening next door at Northcote Social Club.

 

The committee would like to thank the following key partners:
Victoria University Music
Melbourne Brass and Woodwind
Big Trousers, design and IT

Supporting Sponsors:
Federation Square, APRA, NMIT, Atlantis Sound, 3RRR

Visit www.melbournejazzfringe.com for all details and music samples.
For more info email info@melbournejazzfringe.com
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