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Mace Francis

Born: August 23, 1978

Mace Francis is establishing 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 under Graham Lyall and in 2004 graduated from the WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with First Class Honours, and then in 2015 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, nomination for an Australian Bell Award (2013 & 2016) and was the 2015 winner of the APRA AMCOS Art Music Award: Jazz Work of the Year. MFO have recorded six CDs since forming in 2005, toured nationally four times (2006, 2008, 2010 & 2011) and performed with international artists Jim Pugh (USA), Jon Gordon (NY), John Hollenbeck (NY), Satoko Fujii (JAP), Theo Bleckmann (NY) and Ed Partyka (Austria).

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

by Jane Kozhevnikova
August 30, 2023

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 ...

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

by Jane Kozhevnikova
March 14, 2023

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), ...

Mace Francis Plus 11: Isolation Emancipation

by Jack Bowers
January 31, 2022

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 ...

Isolation Emancipation

By Mace Francis

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.

Casserole For Two

December 17, 2021

Album: Isolation Emancipation
By Mace Francis
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 3:48

Love Songs I Love

By Mace Francis

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

Music For Average Photography

By Mace Francis

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.

Jason Hainsworth Big Band / DePaul University Jazz Ensemble / Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica Citta di Verona / Howard University Jazz Ensemble

by Jack Bowers
June 10, 2009

Jason Hainsworth Jazz Orchestra Kaleidoscope DW Jazz 2009 On his first turn at bat, composer / arranger / tenor saxophonist Jason Hainsworth has not only slammed one out of the park with Kaleidoscope but has produced a viable entrant in the big-band Record of the Year sweepstakes. The ...