http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content Details for the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival featuring progressive improvised music Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:56:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sunday 20 April, 8pm The Toff In Town Robert Vincs' performance practice spans a diversity of contexts that include improvised and jazz based music, cross-media performance, experimental and popular music. THE ROBERT VINCS TRIO brings this incredibly talented saxophonist together with percussionist extraordinaire EUGENE UGHETTI & bassist SCOTT DUNBABBIN. Ughetti is returning ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/04/05/rob-vincs-trio/ Thursday April 24th, 1-4pm Victoria University Music Department Sunbury Workshop 1 on ensemble performance featuring Zoe Hauptman from Zoe and the Buttercups Workshop 2 on electronic music featuring Kynan Robinson from the Escalators and Des Peres Free. Limited seating. For further information please contact Greg Aronson on 9919 3296 Victoria University Music Department Building 22, Sunbury ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/03/31/victoria-university-workshops/ Monday April 21st, 7.30pm, Bennetts Lane Jazz Lab Showcase Performance of Victoria University Music Students. Featuring: Sophie’s Quest Steve Hornby Quartet Travis Woods Quartet With a Special Guest performance by Jonathon Zion, Peter Knight and Steve Rando “This performance features students from both TAFE and Undergraduate music performance courses at Victoria University. The courses began in 1999 ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/03/31/victoria-university-showcase/ Koffer: Anthony Schulz and Anita Hustas Gian Slater and Christopher Hale Stephen Magnusson and Frank DiSario Witness six outstanding Melbourne musicians present creative interpretations of music by their favorite Australian composers, including works by Ben Winkelman, Tim Rogers, Doug De Vries, Phil Bywater, Simon Starr and Cold Chisel. Tickets for this 'one-off' ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/03/31/the-new-standards/ Thursday April 24th, 8pm, Iwaki Auditorium ABC Southbank Centre, Southbank Over 4 nights from Monday April 21 to Thursday April 24 2008, the Make It Up Club 10th Birthday Festival presents over 50 performers from around Australia representing some of the most exciting and innovative improvisers this country has to offer. Each night ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/03/31/make-it-up-club-10th-anniversary/ Tuesday April 22nd, 7.30pm, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club In The Permanent Underground: Australian Contemporary Jazz in the New Millennium asks why, when our jazz musicians are so prized overseas, jazz remains a permanent underground? His answer is a National Jazz Plan to raise the profile, increase the audiences, lift income ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/03/31/essay-launch/ This award is sponsored by Atlantis Sound and comprises one day of recording with producer/engineer Myles Mumford at Atlantis Sound Studios. It is awarded to an artist who has displayed consistent originality in producing intelligent music making. The Atlantis Award is not open to nominations by the public or ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/03/31/atlantis-award/ Tuesday April 22nd, 9.30pm, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Zoe Hauptmann – Bass Dan Waples – Saxophone Aaron Flower – Guitar James Hauptmann – Drums “Bassist Zoe Hauptmann is the guiding light behind this weird and wonderful blend of jazz, bluegrass and rock that will by turns elicit laughs, cries of "Yee-ha!" and cool nods of ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/03/29/zoe-and-the-buttercups/ Saturday April 26th, 9.30pm, Café 303 Xani Kolac – Violin Tom Gannon – Drums, Percussion The Twoks are Xani Kolac and Tom Gannon; part unpredictable, part electronica, and part unprecedented. Xani intricately layers and loops her violin as if she is playing with a quartet of strings fused with heart-starting beats traversing gypsy, ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/03/29/the-twoks/ Monday April 21st, 7.30pm, La Mama Musica Kynan Robinson - Trombone Pat Thiel - Trumpet Mick Meagher - Bass Marc Hannaford - Piano Lawrence Folvig - Guitar Joe Talia - Drums DJ Element - Turntables. The Escalators is a relatively new 7-piece ensemble from Mebourne's highly innovative composer and band-leader Kynan Robinson. Taking its inspiration from ... http://melbournejazzfringe.com/Content/2008/03/29/the-escalators/