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"Music is an adventure, for both its creators and its listeners. I'd like to think of 'Jazz Up Late' as a musical adventure - and like any adventure, it might range from the sublime to the hair-raising. I'll be exploring contemporary jazz at home and from around the world as well as looking at emerging trends and how the music of other cultures and genres are currently influencing jazz.
The A to Z of jazz fascinates me, no matter which period in its history it comes from...Louis Armstrong's clarion trumpet from the '20s still gives me goose bumps...and then there's the exhilarating rush that John Zorn's confronting and ferocious 'Painkiller' induces, with so much in between!
'Jazz Up Late' has been created to complement Mal Stanley's 'Jazztrack', to appeal to avid fans of the music and the 'jazz curious' alike and to explore the world of jazz beyond 'Jazztrack'.
It's been said that jazz is 'the sound of surprise', I'm certainly still finding it so...and I hope that you will too, on 'Jazz Up Late'."
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In April this year Melbourne's Make It Up Club celebrated it’s 10th birthday with a concert at the Iwaki auditorium at ABC Southbank and New Music Up Late and Jazz Up Late were there to record the music created at the event.
The Make It Up Club is an organisation committed to nurturing, presenting and promoting avant-garde improvised music and sound performance of the highest conceptual and performative standards, regardless of idiom, genre, or instrumentation.
On Jazz Up Late tonight, you'll hear the trio of Marc Hannaford (piano), Philip Rex (double bass) and Ken Edie (drums).
And on New Music Up Late tomorrow night you'll hear the duo of Monica Brooks (piano, electronics) and Joe Talia (percussion, electronics) and Maxximal Patterorist with Anthony Pateras (piano) and Max Kohane (drums). Also featured will be Every Man 4 Himself with Eric Griswold (piano) Ben Carr (tenor sax), A J Hall (double bass) and Ken Edie (drums).
We’ll continue to explore the important re-issues of long out of print and previously unreleased recordings emanating from Europe with music from the English double-bassist and composer Graham Collier’s 1972 “Portraits”. It re-appears on the recently released double disc set which also includes “Deep Dark Blue Centre” and the never before released “The Alternative Mosaics”.
And we’ll also hear more from one of the most important releases of the year: “Blue Notes – The Ogun Collection”.
The latest CD from American drummer Paul Motian’s Trio 2000 + Two is also on the bill – a follow up to his group’s “Live At The Village Vanguard, Volume 1” from last year...and more...
Listen to Jazz Up Late and Jazztrack on Friday 10, Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 October to find out how to enter the competition.
Prize details
- Two Premium reserve tickets to see The John Scofield & Joe Lovano Quartet in live concert at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday 28 October at 8pm:
- Dinner for two:
- Signed concert poster:
- If the winner is from outside of Sydney: return airfares and one night’s accommodation.
Put both answers in box below.
One of this week’s featured albums is the re-issue of the long out of print Afrodisiaca from John Tchicai. It was recorded in 1969 in his home town of Copenhagen after the Danish-Congolese saxophonist had established himself internationally in New York at the height of the free jazz explosion in the ‘60s. We’ll hear the title track, which took up one side of the original LP, featuring Tchicai’s 26-member Candentia Nova Danica.
We’ll also visit Chicago’s jazz club, The Green Mill, where in April 2006 two international improvising ensembles, Atomic and School Days, combined for a couple of nights of music making. Featuring an aggregation of Scandinavians and Americans, the results of their get together have just been released on CD.
Atomic is a Norwegian/Swedish collective with Nords, Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass), Håvard Wiik (piano), and Swedes Fredrik Ljungkvist (saxophones, clarinet) and Magnus Broo (trumpet).
Schooldays is a collaborative effort with Chicago reedman Ken Vandermark and fellow Chicagoan, trombonist Jeb Bishop along with the bassist and drummer from Atomic and Norwegian vibraphonist Kjell Nordeson.
Another concert recording features a completely improvised duet by Japanese drummer Shoji Hano (recently in Australia) and German guitarist Olaf Rupp, taken from a performance at last year’s Moers Festival in Germany.
We’ll also hear from American saxophonist Rob Brown and his quartet, Sydney saxophonist Andrew Robson's take on the music of Thomas Tallis and more...
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Music played on Jazz Up Late on October 10 | 3 | September 26 | 19 | For earlier dates, start at the index of Archived Music Details.
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