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Mace Francis

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Mace Francis has established himself as predominant figure and advocate for original Australian big band music. He moved to Perth, from Victoria, in 2000 to study jazz composition and arranging, graduating in 2004 from the WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with First Class Honours, and then in 2014 with a PhD of which he was awarded the Faculty Research Medal.

Since 2004, Mace’s focus on composition has awarded him the 2004 APRA Professional Development Award, the international Italian composition prize Scrivere in Jazz, a finalist in the 2010 Freedman Jazz Fellowship, the 2015 winner of the APRA AMCOS Art Music Award: Jazz Work of the Year, received the 2017 Prelude Gallop House 12-month residency and the 2022 APRA AMCOS State Luminary Award (WA) for excellence in Artistic Direction and Composition in WA.

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: No Postcode; Empty Landscape; Sleepy Duke; An Ocean Seen; Squint Your Eyes; S.M.S

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Duration: 06:51

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Article: Interview

Carlton-Macpherson-Pass-Valenti Quartet Interview Series: Kate Pass

Read "Carlton-Macpherson-Pass-Valenti Quartet Interview Series: Kate Pass" reviewed by Jane Kozhevnikova


This is the second article in the series of interviews (read the Alana Macpherson) featuring four Australian jazz musicians: Jessica Carlton (trumpet), Alana Macpherson (saxophone), Kate Pass (double bass) and Talya Valenti (drums). They formed a quartet in 2021 and released the album Undeniable (Self Produced, 2022). All About Jazz had the honor of meeting the ...

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Article: Interview

Carlton-Macpherson-Pass-Valenti Quartet Interview Series: Alana Macpherson

Read "Carlton-Macpherson-Pass-Valenti Quartet Interview Series: Alana Macpherson" reviewed by Jane Kozhevnikova


This interview is the first in a series to feature the Carlton-Macpherson-Pass-Valenti quartet from Australia: Jessica Carlton (trumpet), Alana Macpherson (saxophone), Kate Pass (double bass) and Talya Valenti (drums). They formed a quartet in 2021 with Carlton's move to Perth from Melbourne and Macpherson's temporary return from Austria. The quartet's debut album, Undeniable (Self Produced, 2022), ...

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Article: Album Review

Mace Francis Plus 11: Isolation Emancipation

Read "Isolation Emancipation" reviewed by Jack Bowers


After a brief pause to accommodate Covid-19 restrictions, Australian composer and arranger Mace Francis is back—with a brand new musical wardrobe, a new axe (trombone) and a pared-down ensemble reminiscent of the classic Art Pepper + Eleven album (with arrangements by Marty Paich) from 1960. Like that earlier album, Isolation Emancipation was written with Paich in ...

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Isolation Emancipation

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Casserole For Two; The Pudding March; In My Solitude; Isolation Emancipation; Home On The Range; Jolly Good; I'm In The Mood For Love; The Monk, The Drunk and Derek the Researcher; Squint Your Eyes; Some Of These Days.

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Casserole For Two

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 3:48

Album

Love Songs I Love

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Easy To Love; The Man I Love; My Funny Valentine; My Romance; Get Out Of Town.

Album

Music For Average Photography

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Following In My Footsteps; Frozen Water; Adaption; Corio Landscape; View From A Train; Dead Corn ; A Study Of Stationary; Suitcases; Let Sleeping Dogs Lie; Wine Glass Perspective.


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