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| New Year, New Gigs
The 2012 Summer Festival was a blast, with gigs for kids, hipsters, outdoors and indoors, workshops, and we gave away an amazing recording prize to the amazing Alcohotlicks.
Now we're settling in for the regular years programming, over the next few months you can catch Bernie McGann, Daryl Pratt, Brendan Clarke with Craig Scott, Mike Rivett and Mike Nock. Dive in!
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JAZZGROOVE IN JUNE
June 2
10pm Zac Hurren Trio
Zac Hurren - tenor & soprano sax
Brendan Clarke - double bass
Evan Mannell - drums
"Blunt trauma swing. Psychotically violent bop. multiple personality tempo. sick joke harmony. lovem leavem ballad. shouting match soliloquy. flesh wound tacet. TOUGH AUSSIE JAZZ."
8:30pm Jane Irving Quintet
Jane Irving - vocals
Matt McMahon - keys
Brendan Clarke - bass
James Waples - drums
Dave Panichi - trombone
Jane likes to explore a wide dynamic vocal range and in a live situation completely embodies her passion for jazz. In Tune UK praise Jane as being “as uplifting and as mellow as you can get”.
“While some singers make claim by including evergreens from the Great American Songbook in their repertoire, Irving is a jazz singer.” ABC Limelight magazine.
June 9
10pm 20th Century Dog
Cameron Undy - bass
Matt Keegan - tenor sax
Carl Dewhurst - guitar
Gerard Masters - keys
Simon Barker - drums
One of the most revolutionary bands to have emerged in Australia in the last decade, their own unique mix of jazz, afro-beat, funk and rock mixes infectious melodies with danceable grooves. This gig celebrates the welcome return of Matt Keegan to Oz.
8:30pm Danny Carmichael Band
Danny Carmichael - trombone
Hugh Barrett - rhodes
Dave DeVries - guitar
Alex Boneham - bass
Jamie Cameron - drums
The Danny Carmichael Band has to date performed well received concerts to audiences here in Sydney and also the South Coast. The band has released their first album “live at the excelsior” in 2008 which received fantastic support from ABC radio and local station East side. 2009 holds many more live shows and hopefully a grammy nomination.
June 16
10pm James Muller Trio
James Muller - guitar
Brett Hirst - bass
Tim Firth - drums
special guest Matt Keegan - sax
James Muller returns to the Groove this week with his trio, one of the most exciting and virtuosic musicians in Australia Muller's gigs are not to be missed.
"this albums sound captures that visceral excitement "... for James Muller to unleash a guitar solo of such ferocity you will duck for cover; the sort of playing that makes his live performances so extraordinary" SMH
8:30pm Tim Clarkson's "CRAB"
Tim Clarkson - alto & tenor saxophones
Alex Boneham - double bass
Cameron Reid - drums, shells, seed pods
A rhythmically vibrant and high-energy trio, interpreting compositions by Tim Clarkson from their recently recorded debut album. Always melodic, always surprising, a meeting of modern jazz, African and Caribbean influences in a highly interactive and free-flowing improvisation. The trio has composed and performed for around two years and now makes its Jazzgroove debut.
June 23
8:30pm Jam Session - Chuck Yates Trio
Chuck Yates - piano
Ron Philpott - bass
Tim Firth - drums
This week our jam sessions continue with one of Sydney's all time legends. The Chuck Yates Trio have been performing for fourteen years, expect a swinging bass line, kick arse drum beats and graceful piano harmony. Get in early to hear Chuck and the boys tear it up before jumping in on the second set to jam with a Sydney icon.
June 24 The Translators album launch
@ The Basement
Steve Hunter - electric bass
Ben Hauptmann - mandolin
Damien Wright - spanish guitar
James Hauptmann - drums & percussion
They played their first gigs in Sydney around a year ago and have since toured Australia’s east coast and done a five city tour of Sumatra and Java, receiving hugely positive responses from audiences and the press alike. The Translators have now released their unique brand of flamenco-jazz-fusion on their debut album ‘The Translators’ available through Jazzgroove Records.
with special guests Matt McMahon Trio
Matt McMahon - piano
Jono Brown - bass
Simon Barker - drums
After years of playing together these guys have a lot of history to explore when improvising together. In their past they have played rock, open form improvisation, opera, jazz, with orchestras, Korean music, soul etc. What do these words mean? Will they influence an improvised conversation between friends? Come and find out.
June 30
10pm Mandala
Geoff Hughes - guitar
Ronny Ferella - drums
Marc Hannaford - keyboard
An improvising trio, Mandala are keenly interested in the point where improvisation and composition intersect. Like a dog with a bone, mandala create and maintain an intensity in their search for the reason behind the sound
8:30pm Exposed Bone
Jeremy Borthwick - bone
Aaron Flower - guitar
Brendan Clarke - bass
James Hauptmann - drums
Laced with weighty potent passages of unashamed rock and funk, this trombone and guitar-led recording exposes the groove and grunge sound of the younger Sydney jazz set. The wailing and growling trombone of Jeremy Borthwick also shows piston-like agility especially on the Indian and African flavoured pieces along with ferocious guitar work from Ben Hauptmann. There's also the rare taste of Brendan Clarke on electric bass utilising synthesised effects.
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