Sydney International Women`s Jaz z Festival

Celebrate a WORLD of Jazz
Sydney
International
Women’s Jazz
Festival
Presented by
The Sydney International
Jazz Festival and
Over two weeks in November
Sydney plays host to some of the
best female jazz talent the world
has to offer. Jazz greats and fresh
new sounds from the USA, Germany
and France are billed alongside
Australia’s elite, as we celebrate the
diverse and beautiful tapestry of jazz.
Welcome
Sydney International Jazz Festival
Chair, Di Yerbury
Double-header discount tickets are
available (you will save up to 20%
off single tickets).
To book visit www.sima.org.au
or call the Seymour Centre Box
Office on 02 9351 7940
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Sydney
International
Women’s Jazz
Festival
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It is with great pleasure that in partnership with Sydney Improvised Music
Association (SIMA) and with support from the City of Sydney, we welcome
you to the inaugural Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival. Over
the last two decades the number of outstanding women jazz musicians
has increased quite dramatically, both here and overseas; yet this trend
has to some extent, flown ‘under the radar’. What better way to celebrate
growing
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this wonderful art form than by bringing together, under the umbrella of
a Festival, some outstanding artists from Australia and other countries.
I’m sure the program will be enjoyed by Sydney music-lovers, and that the
Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival will have a bright future as an
important event in the Sydney arts calendar.
Artistic Programme welcome
This vibrant festival celebrates jazz just as it celebrates the work of women
musicians as band leaders, soloists and composer/arrangers. Women musicians have made important contributions to Australian jazz and they are
doing it today in ever greater numbers. In that regard, developments here
reflect what is going on in the jazz world as a whole.
The international component, for which we thank the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, is headed by Trio M, one of the finest ensembles on
the world stage today that utilises the piano trio format. This is the new
jazz, played at a peak of creativity. No Tango performs a distinctive style
that is jazz, but broadly defined encompassing diverse cultural influences.
In the same way, Cyrille Aimee draws on a wide range of musical traditions
to create a personal, engaging mix, filled with energy, exuberance and
emotion without a trace of sentimentality.
There is no shortage of home-grown talent, world class artists in their
own rights; Marialy Pacheco, Andrea Keller, Sandy Evans and Gian Slater
will be presented alongside our international guests making in a musical
feast for jazz lovers and music appreciators alike, over two exhilarating
weeks in November. We look forward to your support in making this boutique event the first of many.
Cyrille Aimee Quartet, (France/USA)
No Tango Quartet (Germany)
8:30pm Wednesday 7th November
Venue: The Sound Lounge
8:30pm Thursday 8th November
Venue: The Sound Lounge
New York-based French singer Cyrille Aimee is making heads turn in both
the US and Europe with her fresh sound and wonderfully communicative
style. Since making the finals in the prestigious Thelonious Monk competition in New York, she has become one of the most talked about new faces
in the jazz vocal stable. Possessing a warm, enchanting voice that she uses
with great control whether singing ballads or more up-tempo numbers,
Cyrille communicates with audiences across genre boundaries with an
ease usually found only in veterans.
Her band includes two Australians who are part of her New York working
band – Raj Jayaweera and Sam Anning, and Sydney based award-winning
guitarist Aaron Flower.
Cyrille Aimee (vocals) Aaron Flower (guitar) Sam Anning (bass)
Raj Jayaweera (drums).
German band No Tango Quartet, led by Cologne-based saxophonist and
composer Christina Fuchs, are a genre bending and blending group that
combines contemporary jazz with ethnic and new music. All the band
members are virtuosi who place their technical facility at the service of
the music that, no matter how complex, always communicates and unfailingly entertains. No Tango is hard to classify, but easy to understand
just by listening. The band represents an important current of European
jazz that seeks to create new sounds fashioned from sources beyond the
American tradition.
Christina Fuchs (soprano sax, bass clarinet) Florian Stadler (accordion)
Ulla Oster (bass) Christoph Hillman (drums).
[Myra Melford is] the most
original pianist/composer to emerge
from jazz since Anthony Davis
Francis Davis
Trio M (USA)
8:30pm Friday 9th November
Venue: The Sound Lounge
The most celebrated name here is that of Myra Melford who co-leads the
collective Trio M. Her reputation as one of the most important composers
and improvisers of the last twenty years encompasses both jazz and composed music. Along with Marilyn Crispell, Melford carries the legacy of
Cecil Taylor into more structured contexts through her compositions. It’s
for these she has been called a fearless musical adventurer and by critic
Francis Davis “the most original pianist/composer to emerge from jazz
since Anthony Davis”.
A native Chicagoan she is conscious of the great piano tradition of that
city recasting the blues and boogie-woogie by folding in elements of the
music of Eastern Europe and India, and blending them with the rangy,
percussive avant-garde approach she cultivated in studies with Don Pullen
and Henry Threadgill.
Drummer Matt Wilson is considered one of the elite drummers in jazz
since coming to prominence in the 90s, through among other projects the
Dewey Redman Quartet. A wonderfully, musical and lyrical drummer who
wears his technical brilliance lightly, Matt’s solos always tell a many-sided
story with daring and humour.
Mark Dresser is one of the great bass players having performed for many
years with Anthony Braxton as well as with Tim Berne, Anthony Davis,
John Zorn as well as leading many of his own groups. He also performs in
the bass duo The Marks Brothers with Mark Helias.
Myra Melford (piano) Mark Dresser (bass) Matt Wilson (drums).
Sandy Evans Sextet
Andrea Keller Quartet with Gian Slater
8:30pm Saturday 10th November
Venue: The Sound Lounge
8:30pm Friday 16th November
Venue: The Sound Lounge
One of the most important jazz musicians who emerged in the 1980s, Sandy
Evans is a mainstay of Australian contemporary jazz. She has led and coled some of our most innovative ensembles such as Women and Children
First, Clarion Fracture Zone, the Sandy Evans Trio, Sextet and Quintet that
explores Indian music and jazz with Sriiranganathan Sarangan and tabla
master Bobby Singh.
A member of Ten Part Invention, The catholics, the Australian Art
Orchestra, austraLYSIS, jazz-world-folk combo MARA!, Evans has won
numerous awards, most recently and notably, a Medal of the Order of
Australia for services to Australian contemporary jazz as a composer and a
musician: a rare honour for a jazz musician.
She is considered not only a brilliant and exciting soloist on tenor and
soprano saxophones in both structured and free contexts, but also an outstanding composer.
Sandy Evans (sax) Phil Slater (trumpet) James Greening (trombone)
Alister Spence (piano) Brett Hirst (bass) Toby Hall (drums).
Melbourne based pianist/composer/band leader Andrea Keller is one of
the most formidable female jazz talents to emerge in Australia. Keller is a
subtle and complex musician whose piano solos are superbly conceived in
structure and sparkle with brilliant ideas developed to their full potential.
She works across a wide variety of formats from solo piano to duets with
bass (or recorder – with Genevieve Lacey), her own quartets and quintets,
and the Bennetts Lane Big Band.
She has won numerous awards for her recordings and has performed
with various ensembles at most of Australia’s major jazz festivals as well
as at the Sydney Opera House. In a Sydney first, tonight the Andrea Keller
Quartet will be joined by Melbourne improvising vocalist Gian Slater.
Recently returned from a successful season in New York with her improvising vocal ensemble, Invenio, composer/singer/improviser Gian Slater was
the recipient of Creative Australia Fellowship from the Australia Council for
the Arts (2012) and Freedman Fellowship finalist (2004 & 2010). Her voice
has an ethereal, haunting purity that captivates and transfixes audiences.
Andrea Keller (piano) Gian Slater (vocals) Phil Slater (trumpet)
Jonathon Zwartz (bass) Evan Manell (drums).
Rollicking train grooves,
chair rocking ballads,
country twang and
deft improvisations
JAZZ-A-BILLY COURTYARD EVENT FREE
2pm – 5pm Saturday 17th November
Venue: Seymour Centre Courtyard
Celebrating Sydney’s rich and diverse jazz community, we are thrilled to
present this free event. Embracing the many colours of the jazz spectrum,
these two fantastic bands led by outstanding Sydney-siders, will have you
boot-scootin’ to the BBQ and back! Soak up the atmosphere in the lush surrounds of the courtyard at this child and dog friendly event.
Zoe and the Buttercups
Blending a dynamic, unique and danceable sound that brings the hoedown into the 21 st Century, Zoe and the Buttercups explore original music
they call jazz-a-billy; rollicking train grooves, chair rocking ballads, country twang and deft improvisations by the pick of the crop for Sydney fun.
Jess Green and the Preloved
From the early 20th century to the not so distant past, the Pre-Loved will
take you on a musical journey guaranteed to entertain and breathe new
life into songs from days gone by. Take a trip down memory lane as The
Pre-Loved revive the lost art of harmony singing in an feel-good acoustic
instrumental setting.
Hannah James Trio
Alex Silver Quintet
6pm Saturday 17th November
Venue: The Sound Lounge
7:45pm Saturday 17th November (20 mins set)
Venue: The Sound Lounge
Recipient of the 2011 Jann Rutherford Award for young female jazz musicians, Hannah James’s career has gone from strength to strength with
performances at The Brisbane Powerhouse, Bennetts Lane Melbourne
and more, plus studio performances and interviews for the ABC. These are
outstanding achievements for such a young artist and SIWJF is pleased to
include such an exciting young jazz talent in its first festival.
The Hannah James Trio has an exciting, accessible and thoughtfully
arranged repertoire of mainly original compositions heavily influenced
by the sounds of contemporary musicians from America and Scandinavia
such as Aaron Parks, Ari Hoenig, GiladHexselmen, Will Vinson, Aaron
Goldberg, Tord Gustavson, Atomic and Illmiliekki Quartet.
Hannah James (bass) Casey Golden (piano) Ed Rodriguez (drums).
The Aberdeen Youth Festival touring band aka the Alex Silver Quintet will
perform a short set. This recently formed ensemble is made up of some of
the most promising women musicians in Sydney who will be performing
at the 2013 Aberdeen Youth Arts Festival and the International Youth Arts
Festival outside of London. The band consists entirely of young women jazz
musicians led by trombonist Alex Silver who directs SIMA’s annual ‘Young
Women in Jazz Workshops’. Their performance tonight aims to raise money
towards their trip, please support this amazing group of young women and
make a donation.
Alex Silver (trombone) Melissa Mony (sax) Emma Stephenson (piano)
Lucy Clifford (bass) Jodie Michaels (drums).
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Marialy Pacheco Trio
8:30pm Saturday 17th November
Venue: The Sound Lounge
Cuban-born pianist and composer Marialy Pacheco delivers commanding
performances of pure musical joy, whether solo or with her Trio. 2012 winner of the Montreaux Jazz piano solo competition, her exquisite compositions combined with virtuosic piano technique are a spine tingling experience earning her international acclaim.
Marialy’s increasing reputation as consummate pianist was recognised
by Australian maestro guitarist Tommy Emmanuel who invited her to
perform as guest soloist for his concerts in Germany in 2008. She has since
performed extensively throughout Europe and South America.
Steeped in the rhythms of her native Cuba and influenced by her love of
the jazz tradition Marialy infuses a vibrant spirit and unwavering passion
for the music of her birthplace.
Marialy Pacheco (piano) Andrew Shaw (bass) Joe Marchisella (drums).
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Getting Here
The Sound Lounge and
The Courtyard are both situated at
The Seymour Centre Theatre,
Cnr City Rd and Cleveland St,
Chippendale.
SIMA suggests that the most convenient way to get to the Theatre is by taxi.
Please support our sponsor, Cabcharge, and charge your fare.
Parking is available at the Theatre car park entrance via Shepherd St.
The Seymour Centre is easily accessed via Train (Redfern or Central
Stations) or Bus (422, 423, 426, and 428). Visit www.131500.com.au to plan
your trip.
The Seymour Centre is an access friendly venue. When booking your
tickets, please inform staff of any special access needs.
Food and Drinks and all that Jazz…
There are delicious and atmospheric eateries close by to grab a pre or post
concert drink or dinner. Search for The Duck Inn, Thai Hai, The Rose Hotel
or any of the many bars and restaurants in the Newtown precinct.
Festival Planner
Wednesday 7
Cyrille Aimee Quartet
(France/USA)
8:30pm, The Sound Lounge
($30/$25/$20)
Thursday 8
No Tango
(Germany)
8:30pm, The Sound Lounge
($30/$25/$20)
Friday 9
Trio M
(USA)
8:30pm, The Sound Lounge
($30/$25/$20)
Saturday 10
Sandy Evans Sextet
8:30pm, The Sound Lounge
($30/$25/$20)
Friday 16
Andrea Keller Quartet with Gian Slater 8:30pm, The Sound Lounge
($30/$25/$20)
Saturday 17
Zoe and the Buttercups
2pm–3.45pm, The Courtyard (Seymour Centre)
FREE
Acknowledgements
Sydney International Jazz Festival Board
Di Yerbury, Grahame Campbell, Peter Rechniewski, Brett Boon, Tony
Shepherd, Joanne Kee and Dave Theak.
Sydney Improvised Music Association Committee
Iona Silver, Peter Jordan, Peter Rechniewski, Helen Boneham, David
Howell, Brett Boon, Vanessa Chalker, Phillip Johnston, Jan Dilworth.
Jess Green and the Pre-loved 4.10–5pm, The Courtyard (Seymour Centre)
FREE
Festival Team
Amy Curl (General Manager) Joanne Kee (Business Development and
Partnerships Manager) Vanessa Chalker (Festival Coordinator) Lia Wittig
(Marketing Assistant) Ron Cleaver (Book Keeper) Ross A’Hern, Guy Dickerson (Sound).
Hannah James TRIO
6pm, The Sound Lounge
($25/$20/$15)
Credits: Elizabeth Grieg Public Relations.
Marialy Pacheco Trio Alex Silver Quintet (opening set–7:45pm)
8:30pm, The Sound Lounge
($30/$25/$20)
Thank you to all of our festival partners, donors, volunteers and audiences
– we could not do it without you.
To book visit www.sima.org.au
or call the Seymour Centre Box Office
on 02 9351 7940
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