JAZZGROOVE IN FEBRUARY
Tuesday 3 February
Sidecar-10pm
John Hibbard - trombone
Aaron Flower - electric guitar
Ben Waples - acoustic bass
Evan Mannell - drums
Inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, these highly decorated warriors will thunder and moan through a dark melange of folkish anthems, their metaphorical savagery and nakedness neatly juxtaposed with a literal middle class upbringing.
Daniel J Ross Trio- 830pm
Daniel Ross - piano
Jan Liepnitz - drums
Michael Galeazzi - bass
A new journey for the trio, leading an eclectic dance of zen and fire into the ocean of contemporary Australian composition.
Tuesday 10 February
Matt McMahon Trio-10pm
Matt McMahon - piano
Simon Barker - drums
Jono Brown - bass
After years of collaboration these musicians have a lot of history to explore when improvising. They have played with orchestras, played rock, jazz, opera, Korean music, soul and so on. What do these words mean? Will they influence an improvised conversation between friends?
Nadene Pita-8:30pm
(image Matt Sutton)
Nadene Pita - voice and viola
Merenia Gillies - backing vocals
Brendan St Leger - keys
Greg Royal - bass
Hamish Stuart - drums
Nadene will perform selections from her debut album, Turning Arrows into Flowers. Guided by her voice and viola, the set will move through South Pacific harmonies, Maori chant, tango, mutated funk and free jazz. Expect evocative stories of heart and soul, a band intuitively delivering powerful performances that will long resonate.
Tuesday 17 February
Kim Sanders-10pm
Kim Sanders - tenor sax, Turkish and Balkan reeds
Sandy Evans - soprano, tenor sax
Steve Elphick - bass
Toby Hall - drums
Featuring demented Balkan grooves, ethereal Sufi meditations and strange originals, this unique quartet spins a hypnotic web of exotic sounds, collective improvisation and seriously bent rhythms.
Flap! (Melb)-8:30pm
Jessica Guille - ukelele
Eamon McNelis - trumpet
Mark Elton - bass
Ben Hendry - drums
Touring from Melbourne to promote the launch of their debut album, Flap! are a charming band led by Jessica and Eamon. Featuring musicians from Vada, C.W. Stoneking and Shane Warne, the Musical, they sing original songs about falling off cliffs, obese amputees, being poor and the essential universal themes of falling in love and getting wasted.
Tuesday 24 February
Marcello Maio-10pm
Marcello Maio - piano, accordion
Ngaiire Joseph - vocals
Adam Ventura - bass
Ross Ferraro - drums
Fabian Hevia - percussion
Marcello invites you to join his party of music (festive, not political), drawing on hot repertoire from Brazilian jazz band Samba Mundi and his own naughty trio, not to mention some fresh and tasty beats for this very special lineup. Featuring the sexy vocal stylings of Ngaiire, sure to croon and vroom vroom the room.
8:30pm
Nick Bowd Group
Nick Bowd - saxophones
James Muller - electric guitar
Karl Dunnicliff - bass
Evan Mannell - drums
Jazzgroove recording artist and a sideman in demand, Nick Bowd premieres his powerful new quartet. These gentlemen will prove a fine match for Bowd's own superlative musicianship, a casual virtuosity married to delightful lyricism and a dense harmonic vocabulary.
Wednesday March 25
Album Launch @ The Basement
10pm
The Fantastic Terrific Munkle - Music To Dance To
Martin Kay - clarinets
Julian Curwin - guitars, banjo
Sam Golding - tuba, trumpet, flute
Danny Heifetz - drums, percussion
"erasing the line between satire and beauty, managing to be mock-serious and rather exquisite simultaneously." - John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald
Jazzgroove Records is proud to announce the release of "Music To Dance To", the second album from Sydney band The Fantastic Terrific Munkle. As the title suggests, this could be seen as dance music, from swinging romps to delicate waltzes. There's also a bit of bluesy goodness, music from other lands, and seemingly other planets, all filtered through the unique Munkle lineup.
The members' past and present musical adventures include playing with such diverse acts as Monsieur Camembert, Mike Nock, Secret Chiefs 3, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Darth Vegas and The Tango Saloon.
with special guest
Christa Hughes
8:30pm
Christa Hughes - vocals
Leonie Cohen - piano
John Hibbard - trombone
Christa Hughes first started singing in her teens with her father, Sydney jazz pianist Dick Hughes. Under the guise of KK Juggy she toured, sang and recorded with Machine Gun Fellatio for the first few years of this century. She also wrote and performed her own shows Beer Drinking Woman and Sleepless Beauty.
She then was the ring mistress and singer of Circus Oz and toured extensively with this company for two years. Earlier this year she co-starred in the ABC's Opera film The Eternity Man. |
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