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Satoko FujiiBennetts Lane Big Band featuring the music of festival guest artist Satoko Fujii (JAPAN) and Australian composers Andrea Keller, Shannon Barnett and Jenna Cave (CANBERRA)
The Bennett's Lane Big Band is comprised of some of Australia's most celebrated improvisers and composers and, as such, is Melbourne's premiere large contemporary jazz ensemble. It was conceived as a vehicle for the performance of new works traversing the fields of improvised and composed music.
In addition to contributions from its members, the BLBB has commissioned numerous works from external emerging and established composers.
International guests:
SATOKO FUJII TRIO
Satoko Fujii -Piano
Natsuki Tamura - Trumpet
Akira Horikoshi - Drums
BENNETTS LANE BIG BAND
Tim Wilson: alto saxophone
Julien Wilson: tenor saxophone
Ian Whitehurst: tenor saxophone
Gideon Brazil: baritone sax
Damien Maughan: trumpet
Eugene Ball: trumpet
Shannon Barnett: trombone
Adrian Sherriff: bass trombone
Andrea Keller: piano
Nick Haywood: bass
Rajiv Jayaweera: Drums
@ MWIJF with guests:
Phil Noy - alto
Scott Tinkler - trumpet
Jordan Murray - trombone
Murphy's Law with String Quartet and David Shea (USA)Murphy's Law is a dynamic group led by Melbourne bassist Tamara Murphy. Murphy's Law was formed in August 2002, and features the impressive lineup of Julien Wilson (sax), Shannon Barnett (trombone), Nashua Lee (guitar), Joe Talia (drums) and Tamara Murphy (double bass, bandleader). This dynamic group has released a debut recording “Telling Tales”, and 'Street Art' is the new project featuring Murphy's Law, the Silo String Quartet and electronic artist David Shea (USA). Their MWIJF performance of 'Street Art' features new compositions inspired by popular and electronic music, experimenting with new song forms and different stylistic directions, and the possibilities of electronic and acoustic traditions. It features a string quartet and David Shea, a New York based composer working with combinations of samplers and live musicians.
Julien Wilson – Saxophone
Shannon Barnett – Trombone
Nashua Lee – Guitar
Tamara Murphy – Bass
Joe Talia - Drums
Murphy's Law with David Shea
Murphy's Law is a dynamic group led by Melbourne bassist Tamara Murphy. Murphy's Law was formed in August 2002, and features the awesome lineup of Julien Wilson (sax), Shannon Barnett (trombone), Nashua Lee (guitar), Joe Talia (drums) and Tamara Murphy (double bass, bandleader).
The music performed is part of a new project featuring Murphy's Law in conjunction with David Shea (electronics/samplers). Murphy's Law boasts an original repertoire, and this project features new compositions inspired by popular and electronic music, experimenting with new song forms and different stylistic directions. This group has a collectively produced sound with an identity unique to the Melbourne jazz scene and with the addition of David Shea on samplers/electronics, this should be an exciting collaboration.
Originally based in New York, David Shea is a composer working with combinations of samplers and live musicians, centered on the possibilities of electronic and acoustic traditions. During the 80's and the early 90's David was a regular player in the downtown new music improvisation scene, and composing for combinations of turntables, samplers and ensembles and was involved in many of the projects of John Zorn. In 2005, he based himself in Melbourne and setup the Metta Editions label (www.dshea.net).
Murphy's Law has performed at many festivals around Australia, including the Melbourne International Jazz Festival (2003), the Wangaratta Jazz Festival (2003) and the Eltham Jazz Festival (2005) in addition to performing regularly around Melbourne. In 2004, Murphy's Law recorded and released their debut CD "Telling Tales" (Newmarket), funded through a Vic Arts Grant.
"There's been no shortage of strong CD releases by local bands this year, but the one I've been most excited by is the debut album from Murphy's Law"
- Adrian Jackson - Rhythms Magazine Nov. 2004
Tamara Murphy - Double Bass
Tamara completed the improvisation course at the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 1999 with a Bachelor of Music Performance. She has studied with Gary Costello, Lloyd Swanton, Ben Robertson, Andrew Moon (M.S.O.) and Ed Schuller (US), Mark Helias (US) and Larry Grenadier (US). Currently, she is undertaking the Masters course (research) at VCA, Melbourne.
Tamara Murphy regularly performs with many outstanding musicians around Australia. She has shared the stage with many musicians, including: Kenny Kirkland, Bob Sedegreen, Tim Stevens, Barney McAll, Mark Fitzgibbon, Gil Askey, Andrew Gander, Geoff Hughes, Allan Browne, Brigitte Allen, Nichaud Fitzgibbon, David Rex, Julien Wilson, Stephen Magnussen, Andrea Keller, Sandy Evans, the Ted White Big Band, Nina Ferro, George Coleman Junior, Dale Barlow, the Sophie Brous band, the Christophe Genoux quartet, the Luke Howard trio, the Cam McAllister quintet and the Jamie Oehlers Quartet along with many others.
She has performed at many music festivals, including the Wangaratta Jazz Festival, Apollo Bay Music festival, the Women's International Jazz Festival and the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Tamara has toured with the Cologne New Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (Germany) throughout the UK and Australia and in the same year, toured through Hong Kong with Australian saxophonist Anton Delecca (2001). In 2003, Tamara studied with bassist/composer Mark Helias in New York City (funded by an Australia Arts Council Development grant). In 2004, Tamara Murphy's quintet "Murphy's Law" released their debut CD "Telling Tales" (Newmarket), featuring the talents of Julien Wilson and Jordan Murray (funded through a Vic Arts grant). In 2006, she studied at the Banff Centre (Canada) as part of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, run by Dave Douglas (funded by the Australian Arts Council).
Currently, Tamara is leading, writing and arranging for groups "Murphy's Law", the co-led trio "Keller-Murphy-Browne" with Andrea Keller and Allan Browne, "Kageki" and "Taser" in addition to performing regularly all over Melbourne with some of Australia's leading contemporary jazz musicians. She also teaches at Ruyton Girls School, Genazzano and St. Catherines Girl's School.
David Shea
David Shea is an American musician, whose work has covered music generated from turntables, voice, samplers and computers to name a few.
In the 1980's, he began working regularly in various projects of John Zorn's and writing for dance, video, film and other collaborations and first began to tour with Zorn in Europe.
Shea's turntable playing was split between improvisations, scored pieces and club DJ gigs at many NY clubs. The split between club work and experimental work ended in the early 90s when Shock Corridor in was released in '92 on Zorn's Avant label, replacing the turntables with samplers. Since then he has worked with people such as Anthony Coleman, Mark Ribot, Zeena Parkins, Jim Pugliese, David Weinstein, Tom Cora, and many others from the NY scenes.
As both solo sampler and ensemble works progressed he began touring extensively in Europe and releasing several CDs a year with one or two being major works. Through out the mid and late nineties he spent most of his time either recording or touring. Throughout 1999-2001, he temporarily based himself in Brussels-Belgium, creating and touring extensively. David now has residency in Melbourne, Australia where he has started the record label Metta Editions.
The last four years have seen a greater shift to a wide range of projects with classical musicians, folk musicians, video pieces, collaborations with electronic dance music makers, and solo sampler work both in performance and recording and commissioned works for dance and film. The time Europe included short stints of lectures, radio programming, teaching, children's program's and touring in Australia.
Now since the shift to Australia and the Asian region, the most recent projects are following the second chamber symphony and a continuing series of solo instrument/sampler duos (based on Berio's Sequenza series) is a work based on the Javanese version of the Hindu epic the Ramayana. Similar to the Tower of Mirrors and Satyricon approach, the original text is followed creating an independent narrative collage of acoustic and electronic scored music, samples of old recordings and arrangements of sound effects, language, and various sampler created ensembles. Planned recording in Australia, Java and in Europe will supply a huge range of source material for an eventual CD and performance of live sampler and live video sampler work. He is also presently working on the design of a new sampler NAJO both for sound and image at IRCAM the Paris based music research center.
Zoë Frater QuintetPremiering at this year's MWIJF, the Zoë Frater Quintet brings together some of Melbourne's finest musicians. The ensemble brings to fruition new works by electric bassist Zoë Frater.
Zoë Frater - bass
Julien Wilson - tenor saxophone
Shannon Barnett - trombone
Steve Magnusson - guitar
Ronny Ferella - drums
Electric bassist Zoë Frater first began her studies at the Mackay Conservatorium of Music under the direction of resident bassist Lee Matthews. In 1999 she moved to Canberra to study under Eric Ajaye at the Canberra School of Music at The Australian National University. During her time in the A.C.T. she performed with Mike Price, Col Hoorveg, Miroslav Bukovsky, Latin outfit Kumaye and in 2000 formed with guitarist Jess Green the jazz quartet Katook. Katook has performed and toured extensively over the last seven years with a recording for ABC's Jazz Track Program in 2006. In 2003 Zoë undertook a study scholarship to the U.K. to study with London bassist's Dil Katz, Rob Mullarky, Dudley Phillips and Paul Westwood.
Since moving to Melbourne Zoë has continued working with various ensembles including The Melbourne Samba School, pop/funk outfits and various jazz line-ups including French Musette, gypsy swing trio Hep. Zoë has performed at numerous festivals including The Melbourne Half Bent Festival, The Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival, Manly, Canberra, Townsville, Devonport and Mackay Biennial Festivals.
ColliderAndrea Keeble - Violin
Anita Hustas - Bass
Erkki Veltheim - Viola
Adam Simmons - Saxophones
Kynan Robinson - Trombone
Ronny Ferella - Drums
Rarely do strings make it into the jazz world but even more rarely are they more than a luscious background. Collider is very much an ensemble with six strong and distinct voices that work in a forward-looking context, with new collaborations, exploring different sounds. Two of these voices, Andrea Keeble and Anita Hustas will be presenting and premiering new work especially for La Mama Musica as part of the MWIJF.
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