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Andrea Keller

Australian improvising pianist & composer Andrea Keller is dedicated to the performance and creation of contemporary jazz and improvised music and has been described as having “one of Australia’s most consistently interesting musical minds” (Doug Spencer 2007). During Keller's professional career, she has led numerous projects as a pianist, whose focus has been to perform her original compositions and arrangements, most notably Still Night: Music in Poetry, Transients, Masters & Apprentices, Five Below, The Komeda Project, The Company of Pianos, From Ether, Three Lanes, The Wayne Shorter Project, The Andrea Keller Quartet/Quintet, and The Bartok Project

Sizeable Outfits, Enviable Outcomes: Large Ensembles In Pursuit Of Excellence

By DAN BILAWSKY

Perhaps nothing better symbolizes dogged persistence than the proliferation of large ensembles in every corner of the jazz world. To take on this kind of work can and should be considered injudicious for the rationally-minded, as the investments--time-wise, organizationally, financially, mentally--are beyond compare. But just because the dollars and sense don't add up doesn't mean it's ...

Monash Sessions: Sandy Evans & Andrea Keller

By SIR ZELMAN COWEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, MONASH UNIVERSITY

Label: Monash Sessions
Released: 2020
Track listing: Lady Geri (Keller) Drums Across the Ganges (Evans) For Bernie (Keller) One for Harry (Evans) Lake Y and Pole (Keller) Sweet Cacophony (Keller) The Invisible Man (Evans). Jim’s Favourite (Keller) Watussi Dreaming (Evans/Whitehead) The Rain Outside (Keller)

Monash Sessions: Collaborations

By SIR ZELMAN COWEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, MONASH UNIVERSITY

Label: Monash Sessions (Monash University)
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Pittance (Alessi); 2. Yoda (Oh); 3. Lady Geri (Keller); 4. Lap Nap (Alessi); 5. Drums Across the Ganges (Evans); 6. Jada (Bob Carleton); 7. Izanagi Izanami (Nguyen Le); 8. Deeper Than Happy (Oh); 9. Melee (Alessi); 10. Moving On (Bailey); 11. Pluridimensional (Monder); 12. Gee Whiz (Bailey); 13. O.K Chorale (Monder).

Love is a Temporary Madness

By VANESSA PERICA

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Spaccanapoli; Dance of the Zinfandels; Woody's Lament; Saint Lazare; Love Is a Temporary Madness; Scar for Charlie; Rebrahmanization.

Angel Bat Dawid, Fay Victor, Satoko Fujii and Clean Feed Releases

By MAURICE HOGUE

Risk-taking singer Fay Victor's powerhouse new album for ESP-Disk is called We've Had Enough, but the title could easily be used on Angel Bat Dawid's latest as well. It reflects some rather shabby treatment on a recent our in Europe. Her album Live sees and Tha Brothahood in full bore. Other new releases sampled come from ...

Vanessa Perica: Love is a Temporary Madness

By JACK BOWERS

Even as the year 2020 has slid ignobly into the dustbin of history, music-lovers have been buoyed by a number of encouraging signs that the future of big-band jazz is in capable hands. While splendid recordings by old hands Mike Barone, Steve Spiegl, Mark Masters and Maria Schneider have helped keep the flame burning brightly, their ...

Ben Monder, Sandy Evans, Andrea Keller, Ralph Alessi & Rich Halley

By MAURICE HOGUE

Monash University in jny: Melbourne, Australia is the home of the Sir Zelman Cowen School Of Music. It's an excellent program that believes in challenging the students. One of the ways it does that is to bring in internationally recognized artists to perform and work directly with the students. This episode presents some of those Monash ...

Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University

The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music strives to inspire musicians towards excellence that knows no boundaries. We are an ambitious school who recognise the value of music in the world, in both its heritage and future forms. Our teaching and research seeks to expand the value of music and its evolution in our communities. The school celebrates the rich diversity of music making in Australia and its association with the rest of the world. The Jazz and Improvisation program is based on the African American jazz idiom as a language for learning. While the focus remains on music in Australia, it also embraces a wide selection of musical styles including jazz, world music, Brazilian, Indian, free, electronic, popular, Latin and blues to name but a few styles

Broun Fellinis, Eric Revis, Luke Stewart and More

By MAURICE HOGUE

A trip to the mystical island of Boohaabia (you know, the one near the Oasis of Surprise), is the final stop in this show, courtesy of the Broun Fellinis, but before arriving to destination there are stops at several great new releases, like those of American bassists Eric Revis' excellent Slip Knots Through a Looking Glass ...