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Mace Francis Orchestra

Active since: August 23, 1978

The Mace Francis Orchestra (MFO) was formed late in 2004 by band-leader and composer Mace Francis to experiment with composition, in the style of the great modern big bands lead by Bob Brookmeyer, Thad Jones, Bill Holman and Maria Schneider. The result has been the coming together of some of Perth’s finest up and coming musician’s and composers to create exciting new music for big band. In a very short time MFO has developed their own individual sound through a residency at the Brisbane Hotel since the start of 2005, and through special projects including a concert in August called “Chinese Whispers”

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.

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).

Introducing the Mace Francis Orchestra

By Mace Francis Orchestra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2007
Track listing: Lemon Water; Lido Lowdown; Melodian Melody; Say That Again; Why A?; The Preacher Is Broken (48:07).

Chinese Whispers

By Mace Francis Orchestra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2007
Track listing: Chinese Whispers (8x10); Say That Again; 8x10 Remix; In Between; 5 Minute Noodle; Chinese Whiskers; Hush (41:44).

Live

By Mace Francis Orchestra

Label: Little Louie Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Just Blues; What About Jed?; A Long Winter; Lemon Water; The Preacher Is Broken; That Darn Dream; Where

Mace Francis Orchestra: Live

by Jack Bowers
April 9, 2007

Having already released two studio albums, the Mace Francis Orchestra from faraway Perth, Australia, goes live this time with a sturdy concert session taped in November, 2006 at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club in Melbourne during a tour of the country's eastern provinces. Even though less than three years old, the MFO shows considerable promise, as Francis ...

Mace Francis Orchestra: Chinese Whispers

by Jack Bowers
March 7, 2007

In August 2005, barely a year after it was formed, the Mace Francis Orchestra appeared as part of the Jazz Windows Concert Series at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. Chinese Whispers, the orchestra's first album, was recorded (in part) during that performance. The orchestra was created, Francis writes, ...

Mace Francis Orchestra: Introducing the Mace Francis Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
March 5, 2007

Composer/arranger Mace Francis formed his orchestra three years ago as an outlet for creative music in Western Australia, and this album, in which the twelve-piece ensemble is “introduced, is actually its second. The first, Chinese Whispers, was recorded four months earlier (in August, 2005) as a part of the Jazz Concert Window Series at the West ...