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Alana Macpherson

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Alana Macpherson is a saxophonist and composer from Perth, Western Australia currently studying and based in Graz, Austria. Since releasing her 2019 debut album <em>All or Nothing At All</em>, she has gone on to win multiple awards including the 2019 Downbeat Student Music Award for Large Ensemble Arrangement. Her ensemble the Alana Macpherson Nonet took out the 2019 WAM award for "Best Live Jazz Act", and Alana won the 2019 WAM award for Best Brass/Woodwind/Strings Instrumentalist. In 2020 Alana's new works for jazz orchestra will be premiered by the West Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra (WAYJO), as part of a commissioned series for Australian composers. As a saxophonist Alana has collaborated with and performed with many notable artists including touring with Emil Spanyi, James Morrison, the Evan Sherman Big Band, and others.

Martin Iaies, featuring Klaus Gesing: People, Places

Read "People, Places" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 27, 2026

As though being a spendid jazz guitarist, composer and arranger were not enough, Argentina-born, Austria-based bass guitarist Martin Iaies was savvy enough to invite renowned woodwind artist Klaus Gesing to sit in on three numbers on Iaies' 2026 recording, People, Places. Iaies ushers an 11-member ensemble--not quite a big band, but fairly close--through its paces on eight of his engaging and lyrical compositions, neatly tailored to suit a group of that size and makeup. Gesing plays alto sax ...