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Sunday, May 14th, 2017

4:30pm

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Doors/Restaurant 4pm. $15 adult / $10 concession.

4:30pm Ashbury Public School Jazz Band
5:00pm Rose Bay Secondary College Jazz Ensemble
5:45pm Killarney Heights High School Big Band
6:15pm Turramurra High School Stage Band 1
7.00pm Australian Institute of Music Studio Youth Orchestra with John Morrison
7:30pm - 9:30pn JASON ISAAC’S TUNDRA ENSEMBLE

JASON ISAAC’S TUNDRA ENSEMBLE with Special Guests the ASHBURY PUBLIC SCHOOL JAZZ BAND (winners City of Sydney Eisteddfod and ABODA award at NSW School Band Festival) and PENNANT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL BIG BAND.

Jazz infected by Brahms & Mahler Drummer, Conductor and Composer Jason Isaac reunites 11 standout musicians to show Sydney what emerges when Mahler, Brahms and Debussy find their way into large-scale works written for Jazz ensemble.
“This suite of music was composed during a period when I was given the opportunity of conducting professional orchestras in Australia and New Zealand as part of the Symphony Australia Conductor Development Program. I spent 4 years studying the masterworks of the symphonic literature and was amazed by how these composers are able to create music of such intensity and weight, yet present their ideas logically and develop them organically. I wanted to explore the depth of how a composer like Brahms can extract an entire Sonata form movement out of the distance between 2 notes; or the virtuosic way that Mahler manipulates one idea after another and connects them into such an obvious narrative. Great improvisers do this in solos – I wanted to try to extend this into the broader architecture of the pieces; to include the solos; and then to develop even further in the way that a Symphony or Suite would. That’s probably why I
need 11 musicians!”
The music weaves and gallops through key areas; catapulted between the instrumental colours of the ensemble; with space for improvisation in, over and around the ever-changing treatment of
thematic material. Three saxophones plus brass quintet will be strapped in for this eclectic writing, with a killer rhythm section to cling to. This will be a night of great music with a different angle – Jazz from a different perspective.
Drums – Jason Isaac
Piano – Gavin Ahearn
Bass – Peter Kohlhoff
Trumpets - Simon Ferenci & Matthew Collins
French Horn - Michael Wray
Saxophones - Murray Jackson, James Loughnan & Nick Bowd
Trombones – James Greening & Mark Barnsley