When: 04/29/2011

Time: 19:30

Where: Melbourne Recital Centre Cnr Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street Southbank

Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival Opening Night

The Andrea Keller Quartet with Strings

Special guests Mag Duo (Magnusson/Jayaweera)

The Melbourne Recital Centre Salon 7.30pm

$30/24 + bf online and at the door

‘Place’ Andrea Keller Quartet with Strings

Eugene Ball – trumpet

Ian Whitehurst – tenor saxophone

Andrea Keller – piano

Niko Schauble – drums & electronics

Richard Keuneman – violin

Marianne Rothschild – violin

Ceridwen Davies – viola

Naomi Wileman – cello

‘Place’ was commissioned by the Four Winds Festival through a generous donation from the Keir Foundation. The 60-minute work in seven parts draws inspiration from the area surrounding Bermagui NSW, and explores notions of belonging and identity. Combining electronics, improvisation, preparations and acoustic instruments, this is one of Keller’s most ambitious projects to date.

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When: 04/30/2011

Time: 20:30

Where: 22 Ovens Street Brunswick

Warehouse Party

Ronny Ferella’s “Peon” + osh10 + iPhone Mash-up!

22 Ovens Street Brunswick 8.30pm

$10 at the door

- an exciting night of underground adventure and electronic mashing!!!

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When: 05/01/2011

Time: 20:30

Where: Bennetts Lane Jazz Club

MJFF/Melbourne Jazz Co-op Presentation

Jonathan Dimond’s Loops + Kafka Pony

Bennetts Lane 8.30pm  $15/$12 at the door

Loops

Mastaneh Nazarian – electric guitar

Jonathan Dimond – electric bass, percussion

Adrian Sherriff – Zendrum percussion controller

Since 1995, the Brisbane-based “Loops” has been  defining and re-defining the nexus where improvisation meets composition, where jazz meets classical and world musics, and where acoustic sound meets electronic sound. Recently returned to Australia from overseas, the band’s leader Jonathan Dimond has resurrected the “Loops” concept in his new home town, Melbourne.

http://www.jonathandimond.com

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When: 05/02/2011

Time: 19:30

Where: Bennetts Lane Jazz Club

VU Showcase performance

Bennetts Lane 7.30pm $12/$10 at the door

This performance features current and graduate students from both the TAFE and Undergraduate music performance courses at Victoria University with special guests.

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When: 05/02/2011

Time: 21:00

Where: Café 303 303 High Street Northcote 3070

MJFF @ Lebowski’s

Sam Bates Trio

Café 303 9pm $8 at the door

Sam Bates – Drums

Marc Hannaford – Piano

Phillip Rex – Bass

Following their 2010 release ‘The Singularity’ The Sam Bates Trio return with new compositions that further exploit the rapport between these three distinctive voices.

“The spaces created by the original compositions are both dense and dynamic. Drummer Sam Bates shows his diverse influences here while achieving a place on his own turf. Listen in now” – John O’Brien

When: 05/03/2011

Time: 20:30

Where: Bennett’s Lane Jazz Club 25 Bennett’s Lane Melbourne

MJFF/Melbourne Jazz Co-op Presentation

Band of Five Names (Syd)

Bennetts Lane 8.30pm $18/$15 at the door

Band of Five Names

Simon Barker – drums

Carl Dewhurst – guitar

Matt McMahon – piano/keyboards

Phil Slater – trumpet/laptop

Simon Barker, Carl Dewhurst, Matt McMahon and Phil Slater have been recording and performing as Band of Five Names for over 10 years. The band has released four recordings, the most recent being Empty Gardens from 2006 (see kimnara.com.au for details). The band has recorded music for several award-winning documentaries, and has been commissioned to compose and perform music for theatre and radio.

When: 05/04/2011

Time: 19:30

Where: Longplay 318 St Georges Road Fitzroy North VIC 3068

Audio/Visual Night

Zoe Scoglio with Magnusson/Grant/McLean

Longplay 8-10pm (doors 7.30pm)  $15 at the door

Zoe Scoglio – Media Artist / Video Projection

Stephen Magnusson guitar

Stephen Grant trumpet

James McLean drums

Lava to rock, fossil to fuel, water to steam.Exploring the idea that all forms are temporal and metamorphic zoe draws links between the transformations that occur within the natural environment with the human form. Using the live adaptation of pre-composed video and object manipulation, Zoe will be projecting visual environments of shifting forms that inhabit both human and geological time frames.

Zoe performs with three of Melbourne’s most creative improvisers, Stephen Magnusson,Stephen Grant and James McLean.

www.zoescoglio.com

www.tapeprojects.org

When: 05/05/2011

Time: 19:00

Where: Dancing Dog Café/Bar 42a Albert Street Footscray VIC 3011

MJFF in the West

Peter Knight solo + Motion

Dancing Dog Cafe 7pm $10 at the door
Peter Knight ‘Allotrope’

Peter Knight trumpet and laptop electronics

Electroacoustic adventures with the trumpet Allotrope is a solo project from multidisciplinary Melbourne composer and trumpeter Peter Knight. Peter began developing digital environments to extend his improvisatory practice during a 2007 composer’s residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada where the work was premiered.

He has since performed solo at venues including KuLe (Berlin) Queensland Conservatorium, La Mama Musica, and the Make It Up Club (Melbourne). Peter’s solo work continues, albeit tangentially, his preoccupation with space,understatement, and long form structure and draws inspiration from diverse sources..

www.peterknightmusic.com

www.myspace.com/allotropemusic

Motion

Andrew Brooks – Saxophones

Berish Bilander – Piano/nord

Sam Zerna – Bass

Hugh Harvey – Drums

Brett Thompson – Guitar

Led by two relative newcomers to the Australian scene, Andrew Brooks (saxophone) and Berish Bilander (piano/keys), Motion strives to produce a sound that is both raw and multifaceted. A shared interest in jazz, as well as 20th century classical music, ambient sounds and progressive rock, serves as an eclectic platform for Motion’s original compositions. The quartet, completed by Hugh Harvey (drums) and Sam Zerna (bass), rely on intense listening to freely interact and improvise new music on previously rehearsed material. This performance will feature regular Motion collaborator, Brett Thompson (WA).

www.motionmusic.com.au

www.listenhearcollecive.com

When: 05/05/2011

Time: 19:30

Where: Uptown Jazz Café Above 177 Brunswick Street Fitzroy 3065

New Standards

The Half Arsed Three + The Porch Dwellers + Fallingwater Trio

Uptown Jazz Café: 8pm (doors 7.30pm)$18 at the door

bookings essential: uptownjazzcafe@email.com + japanese dinner also available

New Standards will feature three ensembles reinterpreting the music of their favourite Australian composers: The Half-Arsed Three, Ben Hauptmann with Raj Jayaweera (The Porch Dwellers) and the Fallingwater Trio. Tickets for this ‘one-off’ event are strictly limited and bookings are advised.

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When: 05/06/2011

Time: 19:30

Where: BMW EDGE Federation Square Cnr Flinders and Swanston Streets Melbourne 3000

MJFF / APRA Composer Commission Concert

BMW Edge Federation Square 7.30pm

Commission Winner: Fran Swinn Quartet + aerialist/acrobat Rockie Stone

Special guests: Allan Browne Quartet …”three turks and a wasp”

$25/$20 + b/f online, $30/$25 at door

APRA COMPOSER COMMISSION WINNER:

Fran Swinn Trio with guest soloist Eugene Ball and  feat. Circus Oz virtuoso acrobat/aerialist Rockie Stone

In what promises to be possibly the first performance of its kind anywhere, this year’s Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival is proud to present its 2011 APRA Composer Commission written by Fran Swinn for jazz quartet and the Corde Lisse. “Inform” will combine these artforms in the stunning setting of BMW Edge on Friday May 6 and will feature Circus Oz virtuoso acrobat/aerialist Rockie Stone with the Fran Swinn Quartet. Special guests: Allan Browne’s…”three turks and a wasp” – A new piano-less  quartet in dialogue using  some new  material  written for the Fringe along with compositions from the Duke and Jelly Roll . .

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When: 05/07/2011

Time: 15:00

Where: Dancing Dog Café/Bar 42a Albert Street Footscray VIC 3011

MJFF in the West

Nat Grant solo + Kewti

Dancing Dog Café/Bar Footscray 3pm $10 at door

Nat Grant – solo

Nat Grant – Percussion/Electronics

Over the past two years Nat has been creating and developing her own style of solo performance, incorporating acoustic percussion instruments, loops and various forms of digital manipulation. Nat’s music explores intersections between acoustic and electronic environments, and between composition and improvisation.

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When: 05/07/2011

Time: 20:00

Where: Open Studio 204 High St Northcote 3070

World Music Night

Colectivo29 + Tania Bosak’s Beijão

Open Studio 8pm $12 at the door

Colectivo29 + Tania Bosak’s Beijão. This new MJFF event promises to be a night of nuevo-tango and exotic pulsating rhythms that are completely infectious and make the heart soar!

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When: 05/08/2011

Time: 14:00

Where: Café 303 303 High Street Northcote 3070

MJFF Closing Party – Big Arse Sunday

VU Band/ Julie O’Hara Heptet / Dale Lindrea / Collider /Make up Sex / Tinkler-Pankhurst-McLean /12 Tone Diamonds

Café 303 2-9PM $25/$20 + b/f online, $30/$25 at door

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