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Biography Associate Professor Robert Burke Co-ordinator of Jazz and Popular Studies @ Monash University - Australia Jazzhead recording artist: http://www.jazzhead.com/cms-artists/rob-burke.phps PhD (perf), MMus (perf), BMus, AmusA, Cert in Tertiary Edu Robert Burke has enjoyed a diverse and wide-ranging career as a performer, composer and educator in music. Although classically trained on the clarinet and saxophones, his main focus as a performer has been in jazz and popular music, including eight years performing and composing with Kate Ceberano (including a top-ten Australian hit) and fifteen years with ARIA award-winning band The Black Sorrows. Rob has performed on and contributed compositions to over 200 CDs by groups ranging from pop acts such as John Farnham, Ice House, Real Life, Vika and Linda Bull, to contemporary jazz projects with leading artists including Tony Gould, Tony Floyd, Doug De Vries, Slava Gregorian, Geoff Hughes, Nick Haywood, Stephen Magnusson, Don Burrows, Tony Floyd and Mike Nock. Rob has performed /recorded with many international jazz artists including Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Nasheet Waits, Tom Rainey, Enrico Rava Dave Douglas, George Lewis, Red Rodney, John Abercrombie, Paul McCandless (Origon), George Garzone, Richie Barshay, Johannes Weidenmueller (USA), Lula Galvao, Roberta Valente, Hermeto Pascoal (Brazil), Mirko Guerrini, Debasis Chakroborty (India) and Qmars Piraglu (Iran) Rob has also toured extensively through Asia, Europe, the United States and locally, including as leader of his own projects. He has studied under influential and pioneering jazz musicians including the likes of Dave Liebman, George Garzone and George Coleman in New York. Research Performance – Saxophone – Flute – Clarinet (CD recordings and Performances) Practice-Based Artistic Research in Music performance (Jazz and improvisation) Jazz and World Music pedagogy (Oxford Handbook of Education) Rob’s research focus is in Practice-Based Artistic Research. A practicing musician, Rob is currently co-writing a book on Practice-Based Artistic Research and co- editing a book (Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music) with Dr Andrys Onsman. Rob is also a member of the MSA steering group for ARiM (Artistic Research in Music). In 2015, Rob convened a 2 day symposium in Artistic research in Music Conference Proceedings: Recent Burke, R (2015). DDCA – (Directors and Deans of Creative Arts) Conference – Sept 2015 Burke, R. & Onsman, (2015) A ‘The use of artistic research in music to develop expertise and creativity (in improvised jazz performance) Burke, R. (2014) Analysis and observations of pre‐learnt and idiosyncratic elements in improvisation: a reflective study in jazz performance (IAML – International Association of Libraries, Archives and documentation centres Australia) Burke, R.

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Robert Burke, Tony Malaby and Mark Helias: Head Under Water

Read "Head Under Water" reviewed by Troy Dostert


A heralded veteran of the Australian jazz scene, saxophonist Robert Burke has never been one to limit his artistic reach through idiomatic complacency. Just within the last couple years, he has collaborated with pianist (and fellow Australian) Paul Grabowsky on Gravity Project (Apollo Sounds, 2018)--an intriguing East-meets-West endeavor that merged traditional Japanese music, jazz, hip-hop and electronica--and has teamed up with Stephen Magnusson on Barlines and Beyond (Jazzhead, 2017), another blending of Eastern and Western traditions, this time between jazz ...

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“This is a groundbreaking collection — complex and adventurous” 4.5* J. McBeath – The Australian 2015 “A stunning jazz album that identifies Melbourne as a significant contributor of talent and inventive and pioneering jazz on the world stage. Beautifully recorded and presented. … This record is a collaboration of some of the most influential protagonists on the Melbourne scene and is undoubtedly a masterpiece.” – Eddie Naran – Jazz on the Street. “An exciting tour of Melbourne. There are moments where you will get chills down your back’ 4.5* – The Age Green Guide

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Head Under Water

FMR Records
2019

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Jazzhead (Australia)
2016

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Jazzhead (Australia)
2015

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Jazzhead (Australia)
2014

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Jazzhead (Australia)
2014

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Jazzhead (Australia)
2013

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