Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival

David Tolley, bass violin | Ren Walters, acoustic guitar

An intimate improvised exchange concerning sound structures and articulated space. The 20+ years of collaboration by Tolley and Walters has spawned a wide variety of performance events, methods and instrumentation. In this presentation they have chosen to focus on their acoustic instruments.

DAVID TOLLEY - during a RRaPP performance by THE OTHER @ Make It Up Club Nov 1, 2011 by Elizabeth Bell

REN WALTERS during a RRaPP Soiree performance by THAT @ D & D residential studio, Nov 6, 2011 photo by Sian Kelly

Tilman Robinson

Tilman is a composer & trombonist who graduated from WAAPA with First Class Honours in 2009. Since then, he has been engaged as a composer/arranger with prominent jazz and classical ensembles including the Australian Brass Quintet, Sinead O’Connor, Mace Francis Orchestra (MFO), Bennetts Lane Big Band (Melbourne), Frontier Justice Big Band (Canada) and Enthusiastic Musicians Orchestra (Brisbane).

As a performer, Tilman has toured extensively as a member of the Johannes Luebbers Dectet and Mace Francis Orchestra, two of Australia’s leading jazz large ensembles. He has shared the stage with Bang on a Can All Stars, John Hollenbeck, Theo Bleckmann, Ed Partyka, Dave Douglas, Jim Pugh, Kneebody and Myra Melford.

Tilman Robinson’s leads Network of Lines in the premiere of ‘If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller’.

Network of Lines
Tilman Robinson – Composition/Trombone/Processing
Peter Knight – Trumpet/Processing
Callum G’Froerer – Trumpet
Xani Kolac – Violin
Melanie Robinson – Cello
Brett Thompson – Guitar/Banjo
Berish Bilander – Piano/Accordion
Samuel Pankhurst – Double Bass
Hugh Harvey – Drums

MAGNET is a new project, the brain-child of guitarist/composer Stephen Magnusson as a creative collaboration with fellow composer/improvisers, Eugene Ball, Carl Pannuzzo and Argentinian drummer, Sergio Beresovsky.

l-r Eugene Ball, Sergio Beresovsky , Stephen Magnusson, Carl Pannuzzo. With Sergio currently in Argentina, the MJFF concert features the trio only

Currently in Argentina, Sergio is unable to complete the quartet. His absence offers the trio version of the group a way to re-interpret the original repertoire again, as they do every time they perform, taking often a simple melody and building it from their ears up.

Magnusson’s compositions find new directions from within and extensions beyond, treated sensitively but with abandon by these master musicians – fearless and inclusive of every emotion and sound…

The interaction and harmony is at the deepest level of collective improvisation;the moments made as pure as if they had been composed over crystal.