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Kaleidoscope // UNSW Jazz Orchestra & Advanced Jazz Ensemble

21 November 2019
7.00pm – 8.30pm AEDT
Io Myers Studio, Esme Timbery Creative Practice Lab
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trumpet player as seen through a kaleidoscope

UNSW Jazz Orchestra
Directed by Sandy Evans

Jazz Orchestra are delighted to present 3 world premieres composed by UNSW students especially for this concert – Vale by Shawna Ellen, Paradox by Samuel Ellery and Sunset Sky by James Curran.

Shawna writes, “Vale is the culmination of different styles of composition, from my classical roots, to my love of time signatures in 7 (and 5 and 4!), through to an homage to Latin style music”.

James has fulfilled a long-held dream to write for Jazz Orchestra with Sunset Sky, a lyrical, moving ¾ piece that features the composer on tenor saxophone. He writes, "Sunset Sky is my first composition written for a jazz orchestra and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to have it performed at my final concert playing with the UNSW Jazz Orchestra".

First year composer, Samuel Ellery, explores the aural paradoxes that polyrhythms in 6 and 4 create in a funky and intriguing composition.

Trinkle Tinkle is a Monk classic that features the pianistic wizardry of Gamran Green. Completing the program is an energetic Latin classic, Why Not by Michel Camilo with a fantastic groove and thrilling drum, saxophone and piano solos.

Featuring
Chris Blundell, Lynx Van Den Brink, Jarryd Langford, James Curran, Shawna O'Neill, Logan Birchall , Peter Kostopoulos , Ryan Shofner, Christian Sherlock , Jaden Victoria , Gamran Green, Matt Jenkin, Fergus Spencer, Tristan Lacey and Jonas Tay.