The 2010 Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival, presented in association with:
Lebowski’s, Jazzgroove (Syd), Jazzhead, & the Melbourne Jazz Co-op.
The Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival was formed in 2005 to celebrate Melbourne’s burgeoning creative jazz scene. Now established as a leading event in the Melbourne cultural calendar, the 2010 festival will again make the ears prick up, the heart soar, and let the mind be gloriously surprised. It will feature some of Australia’s most celebrated improvisers in an inspiring nine days and nights of creative and groundbreaking music making.
The 2010 Jazz Fringe Festival kicks off in BMW Edge at Federation Square on April 23rd at 7.30pm with the APRA Composer Commission Concert featuring a new work by celebrated Melbourne vocalist Gian Slater. “Gone, without saying” is a work for voices that explores the notion of communication between and without words. That which cannot be put into words – those things we don’t wish to speak of, or those that go without saying. This work is written for voices using experimental and extended vocal techniques with intricate, textural layering and conceptual improvising. Opening the concert are three time Aria winner Andrea Keller and Tim Wilson with the launch of their debut duo cd.
Bookings: www.bellaunion.com.au
In 2010 The Festival will feature its traditional Big Arse event at The Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall on Saturday April 24. Big Arse Saturday listeners will kick back to artists including BoB, Ensemble Max, Hinterland, National Jazz Award winner Zac Hurren (Bris) with his trio and many more.. Tickets are limited. Book now for an afternoon and evening of wonderful strangeness, deep groove, dissonance, melody, cacophony and the beauty of song.
Bookings:www.bellaunion.com.au
Following on from Big Arse Saturday, the innovative “New Standards” night on Saturday April 24th 8pm at Uptown Jazz Cafe will feature three ensembles: Diana Clark with Doug de Vries and Stephen Grant, Mal Webb (solo) and the Sam Keevers Trio, reinterpreting the music of their favourite Australian composers including Archie Roach, Ross Wilson, Valanga Khoza, Joe Geia, Kate Ceberano and Harry Angus. Tickets for this 'one-off' event are strictly limited and bookings are advised.
uptownjazzcafe@email.com
Groundbreaking new events this year include “2010: A Bass Odyssey”, featuring Ben Robertson, Chris Hale and Jonathan Heilbron, the MOVEable Feast with the John Taylor Electric Guitar Ensemble, Xani Kolac and the NMIT Laptop Orchestra at galleries including Brood Box and King’s Artist Run Initiative, and the very underground MJFF Warehouse party at the Pea Green Boat that features, along with electronic group Harmless and The Ages, the innovative audience participation event: the MJFF iPhone improv mash-up!
The 2010 program also includes several performances at Bennetts Lane and 303, venues committed to nurturing Melbourne’s creative jazz scene. Come and hear the musicians that are responsible for Melbourne’s reputation as the cultural capital of creative music in the Southern Hemisphere: Tim Wilson and Andrea Keller, Bell award nominees the Dilworths (Syd), the Nick Heywood Quartet, Daz Hammond Combo, The End, and The Spence/Sugg/ Wanders Project (Syd/Melb).
On Saturday May 1, the Melbourne Jazz Fringe winds up with the best party in town...featuring the dynamic Daz Hammond Combo and the Jess Green’s Bright Sparks! (Syd/Melb) at 303.
The 2010 Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival is possible with the support of the
following sponsors:
Key Partners
Victoria University, Arts Victoria – Vic Rocks, APRA, Federation Square
Supporting Sponsors
extempore, Jazzgroove (Syd), Cube Serviced Apartments, 3RRR, Atlantis Sound, Brolly design, NMIT, Melbourne Jazz Co-op
For more info email: info@melbournejazzfringe.com
