Mark Isaacs’ solo piano program is a reimagining of much-loved classic melodies. All are new-to-jazz choices from the 1960s & 70s including by songwriters such as Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell and the late Burt Bacharach.

Mark’s acclaimed jazz output, over more than four decades now, has seen him collaborating with some of the most legendary international jazz stars, including Roy Haynes, Dave Holland and Kenny Wheeler, recording numerous lauded jazz albums (with two ARIA Award nominations for his previous Australian ‘Resurgence’ band), and touring the world including playing major festivals such as Tokyo Jazz Festival and Finland’s Pori Jazz.

Mark Isaacs also writes symphonies, concertos, records and performs as a classical pianist and conducts orchestras. He’s composed and conducted film & TV music and even writes songs (including the lyrics) and has been for many years a trained telephone crisis supporter at Lifeline Australia.

Classical music luminary Vladimir Ashkenazy described Mark’s classical work as “masterful” and “highly inventive and inspiring”.

Jazz master Pat Metheny described Mark as “A serious musician looking to solve deep questions” and the Los Angeles Times spoke of his “splendid musical mind”.

Mark Isaacs’ solo shows in Sydney and Melbourne major performance venues like Melbourne Recital Centre and City Recital Hall, Sydney, have received glowing reviews.

"Isaacs, with every release, has refined his systematic approach to post-modernity jazz to the point that his sound defines what jazz should sound like at the advent of the 21st Century"
ALL ABOUT JAZZ (USA)

“Here were dialogues to restore the faith. As the world crumbles into vulgarity, vitriol and worse, one felt blessed – privileged, even – to hear solo performances by pianists of the calibre of Mark Isaacs" SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

“He wrestled melody and song out of silence” AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW

“The audience was silent and motionless, spellbound – somewhere between awe and anticipation” CLASSIC MELBOURNE

The Perth Jazz Society & Tone List's beloved series for avant-garde jazz and improvised music returns for its second season. The fifth concert in the series takes place at Bar Four5Nine on December 1, with doors opening at 7pm for a 7:30pm start. It features a double bill of HyperUniform (Gracie Smith - drums & Nathan Thompson - modular synthesizer), and Rain No Rain (Daniele Di Paola - drums, Kate Pass - double bass, Ronan Charles - piano & Ricki Malet - trumpet).

After a hyped set opening for Nika Mo's album launch in 2021, HyperUniform returns with unhinged intensity from two leading artists in noise and improvisation in Western Australia. Nathan Thompson, known for startling work at the intersection of experimental music, robotics and biological arts, clips triggers onto the drums of Gracie Smith (Tangled Thoughts of Leaving/The Noise & Vibration Council), whose virtuosic drumming combines the deftness of free jazz & improvisation with heavy-hitting sounds of avant-garde metal. The two sounds interact in human and post-human ways as the drums trigger shifts in the chaotic electronics. It's amazing.

Rain No Rain is the dash cam footage that you recovered from the car that you worked out belonged to you when you found some keys in your pocket. And then you sit on the steps and play it through. What a ride we had last night. Threading insane traffic, stopping for more drinks and friendly strangers at a bar in an unknown city and then parking to watch the sunrise before the batteries ran out. What the hell is this mess and where do we go from here? Well, it turns out we’re in a band called Rain No Rain and we’re booked at some place to play and I guess we’ll work it out then.

TuneNoiseTune is a co-presentation of Tone List and the Perth Jazz Society, and is proudly supported by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and through the generosity of Carl Erbrich. Tone List and the Perth Jazz Society acknowledge the Whadjuk Noongar people as the custodians of the land on which we live and work and pay respects to Elders and custodians past, present & emerging.

AVIVA ENDEAN [VIC]
PETER KNIGHT [VIC]
JASMIN WING-YIN LEUNG 梁詠然 [VIC]
(...MUMBLEFUNK)

The Perth Jazz Society & Tone List's beloved series for avant-garde jazz and improvised music returns for its second season.

In a special partnership with the Australian Art Orchestra, the fourth concert of the TuneNoiseTune series presents a triple-bill of solos by members of the AAO, accompanied by an extraordinary local duo.

Join us upstairs in the striking setting of the Rechabite Hall as Peter Knight and Aviva Endean launch elaborate and virtuosic solo albums on Room40 working with instruments and electronics:

Peter Knight threads his trumpet through analogue tape loops, whilst Aviva uses wind instruments, effects pedals and sound design techniques to make elaborate collages.

Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung 梁詠然 explores site-specific resonances in tune with phenomenal erhu playing.

(.....mumblefunk), the duo of Simon Jeans and Daniel Susnjar, explore pan-genre improvisation on guitar and drums.

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With an emphasis on improvisation, The Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) explores the meeting points between disciplines and cultures and imagines new musical forms to reflect the energy and diversity of 21st century Australia.

Founded by Paul Grabowsky AO in 1994 the AAO is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Now led by daring composer/trumpeter/sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures.

It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates music that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms.

More details on the Australian Art Orchestra's activities in Western Australia can be found on the Audible Edge Festival website.

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Accessibility: The Rechabite Hall is wheelchair accessible via lift. The bathrooms are on the basement level of the venue, which is also accessible via the elevator.

The Audible Edge Festival of Sound is presented by Tone List. TuneNoiseTune is a co-presentation of Tone List and the Perth Jazz Society. Audible Edge and the TuneNoiseTune concert series are proudly supported by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries. TuneNoiseTune is further supported through the generosity of Carl Erbrich.

Tone List and the Perth Jazz Society acknowledge the Mandjoogoordap Bindjareb people and the Whadjuk Noongar people as the custodians of the land on which we live and work.

BIRDLAND is a Perth based Jazz Vocal Trio featuring Kerry Byrom-Carter, Jenny Wrenn and Sue Bluck.

Whether swinging to Big Band arrangements or singing to electrifyingLatin rhythms, the sound of Birdland is unique. Three individual voices combine to form a vocal blend that can execute complex Jazz Harmonies with a sound that sets them apart from their contemporaries.

This vocal group has enjoyed many years of professional work starting out as session singers engaged as regular backing vocalists for jingles for television and radio. They have also performed as backing vocalists on many album recordings recorded in Perth W.A. and sung on ABC broadcast. They have featured as guest vocalists on the ABC’s Television Manteca series, appeared on Telethon and Appealathon as guest artists as well as Backing Vocalists for visiting artists with the studio band. As a group they have opened as a support act for Sir Harry Secombe andJames Morrison. Birdland joined Tommy Tycho and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra for a concert series as guest artists in the Big Band Swing Series, In Concert with the WASO and Swing crooner Frank Bennett.

With a sound that can capture the swing era and vocal groups in the style of The Andrew Sisters, Manhattan Transfer, The Supremes, Sergio Mendez… Birdland has sung with many Big Bands at local Festivals, Events, Concerts throughout WA with many memorable performances at the CROWN Entertainment Complex as featured artists, as well as Backing Vocalists for touring Cabaret and Tribute shows.

BIRDLAND is accompanied by the Mike Nelson Quartet. Mike Nelson helped establish Jazz Studies at WAAPA in the 1980’s and has lectured at UWA, ANU as well as performed in concert in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Canberra. His quartet toured India for the 1988 International Jazz Yatra and in 1990 to conduct masterclasses and perform. He has toured extensively throughout Great Britain and Europe. Many of his jazz compositions and arrangements (including his CD ‘Celebration’) have been recorded and broadcast by the ABC. His commissions have been performed by WASO, the Australian String Quartet, Alice Giles (harp – ANU). He has worked with many international artists including Mark Murphy, Milt Jackson, Shirley Bassey, James Morrison, Don Burrows, Debbie Reynolds Red Rodney, and Jerry Lewis. He has published the novel “MUSO” and a jazz Piano methodology book ‘The Craft of Jazz Piano. In recent years he helped to further develop theory studies at WAAPA and continues to work as a composer/performer/arranger in Perth WA. He is now retired from teaching but continues performing, recording, arranging, and composing.

KOI KINGDOM

Melbourne trio Koi Kingdom are coming to WA! Koi Kingdom released their second album, Pink Milk, in 2021 with a third album in the works. Their music is a concoction of many different influences served in the form of a drummerless trio. You might hear touches of Samba, Metal, Avant-garde Jazz under the structures of long compositional forms and adventurous improvisations. The three move in perfect synchronisation, balancing solid grooves and interwoven melodies over underlying and constantly changing time meters. This is Koi Kingdom's debut visit to WA so it's a special one.

Ghost Gum Reverb 

Ghost Gum Reverb is an avant-garde improvising group, playing music that brings the expression and intensity of free jazz together with the and the hypnotic, trance-like repetitions of ambient music and the expanded sound pallet of free improvisation.

Comprised of Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone), Djuna Lee (double bass), Jameson Feakes (electric guitar) and Ben Greene (drums), the group has an idiosyncratic sound that defies genre, strengthened by the rich collaborative history of the performers across a variety of projects in the last eight years. Ghostly, fragile bowed strings meet sombre harmony, propulsive drumming and highly textured, circular-breathed saxophone phrases.

Ghost Gum Reverb have performed in ambient, jazz, electronic & pop contexts alike, including concerts at the Perth International Jazz Festival, Aesoteric (WA Museum Boola Bardip), Goolugatup Sounds and AM/EX.

Owen Measday’s latest original project “Stepwise” debut’s some original compositions and is as varied and unique as the group of musicians brought together to perform these poetic, emotional and heart felt sounds. This group of like minded and creative musical artists consist of:

Vocals: Owen Measday
Guitar: Ben Jobson
Drums: Ben Shelley
Double Bass: Arvis Mena Lescay
Trumpet: Jessica Carlton
Alto Saxophone: Holly Forster

A top 10 finalist of the National Jazz Awards in 2020, Owen Measday is a skilled soloist and story teller with a unique, warm delivery which he has developed at WAAPA and with his collaborators. His influences cover a wide spectrum of styles, crossing genres influenced by instrumentalists and singers Nat King Cole to Chet Baker, Donny Hathaway to Bobby Mcferrin and Abbey Smith.

Stepwise’s long awaited debut performance at the PJS will be a poignant, vibrant and spontaneous evening of music.

Part of the Audible Edge Festival of Sound (ae.tonelist.com.au).

Tone List & PJS's beloved collaborative series TuneNoiseTune returns on June 30. This time we're back at the Four5Nine bar, for two sets of emotionally charged and sonically inventive music.

BLUE SHADOWS:

Julia Wallace’s haunting and atmospheric project Blue Shadows brings Jake Webb and Liam Downey on analogue and digital synthesizers together with cellist Miranda Murray-Yong and double bassist Lyndon Blue. Julia’s piano and vocoded vocals sit awash in the sonic shadows of fragile strings and textural electronics.
https://juliawallacemusic.bandcamp.com/

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR CHORDLESS QUARTET:

Montreal-based trumpeter Craig Pedersen leads new quartet New Directions for Chordless Quartet, featuring Saskia Willinge (flute), Djuna Lee (double bass) & Ben Greene (drums). With works that leap from ferocious full-bore intensity to spacious, droning dirges in a matter of moments, this is virtuosic music with a keen sense of atmosphere and texture.
https://mwrecs.com/artists/craig-pedersen/

TuneNoiseTune will happen bi-monthly throughout 2022.

The Perth Jazz Society are proud to host a double album launch event,
featuring debut albums by Joshua Nicholls and Maximillian Wickham.

PJS has been supporting original jazz artists in Perth for over 45
years. Through their relationship Loop Recording Studio and engineer
Kieran Kenderessy, PJS provides free studio hire and engineering time
to 2 deserving artists each year, enabling them to record an album of
original music.

Joshua and Maximillian present a night of groundbreaking original
large ensemble jazz, celebrating the launch of their albums, and the
start of another exciting year for PJS.

Joshua Nicholls:

Joshua Nicholls is a jazz guitarist, composer and arranger based in
Perth, with a passion for bringing his fun, fiery and unpredictable
music to the ears of listeners everywhere.

Joshua graduated from the Bachelor of Jazz, at the WA Academy of
Performing Arts in 2019, majoring in Guitar and Composition/Arranging.
In 2019, he was selected as the Associate Composer-in-Residence with
the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra, premiering an extended original jazz
composition “Astonishing Device” at the 2019 King Street Corner Pocket
Jazz Festival. During his time at WAAPA, he has studied and performed
in the USA and France, and played alongside notable musicians
including Rai Thistlethwayte (SYD), Sébastien Paindestre (FRA), Daniel
Susnjar (PER), and his unique arrangements have been performed by
Alana McPherson Plus Eleven (Mace Francis), JoFoo Music and Funked Up
Brass (Matilda Simcock).

In 2018 Joshua formed his original jazz octet ‘Joshua Nicholls Plus
Seven’ (JN+7), presenting original large ensemble jazz tunes in his
unique compositional style: an eclectic blend of his early heroes
Dream Theater and Led Zeppelin, jazz influences Herbie Hancock, Ari
Hoenig and Bob Brookmeyer, along with a dash of unexplained craziness.
Musical styles vary wildly throughout his catalogue, with funk, prog,
free jazz, metal and cool-school elements present within his music.
The one common thread: an infectious groove.

JN+7 has played at the 2019 King Street Corner Pocket Jazz Festival,
the 2020 Perth International Jazz Festival, and the Ellington Jazz
Club, and are releasing their debut album of original jazz
compositions in March 2022, supported by the Perth Jazz Society and
the State Government of WA.

Maximillian Wickham:

Maximillian Wickham is a jazz saxophonist and composer based in Perth.
In 2019, Max attained a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours in
Jazz from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He has
performed with artists including the Mace Francis Orchestra (PER), Sam
Anning (MEL), Daniel Susnjar (PER) and Jean-Baptiste Bridon (FRA). Max
was the 2018 Associate Composer in Residence with the WA Youth Jazz
Orchestra and was one of 18 young musicians from around the world
invited to attend the 2018 Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony in
California.

Drawing inspiration from Australian jazz artists such as Barney
McAll, Julien Wilson, and Andrea Keller, Max aims to create music full
of passion, emotion and intensity and seeks to blur the lines between
the composed and the improvised. Tonight, he will be launching his
début album ‘Hopeful’, a selection of compositions inspired by issues
and people he cares about. The music will be performed by a 13-piece
chamber ensemble featuring a collection of outstanding jazz and
classical musicians.

Maximillian Wickham – Tenor Saxophone/Composer
Michael Ellis – Guitar
Tim Voutas – Piano
Alistair Peel – Bass
Daniel Susnjar – Drums
Caitlin Malcolm – Flute
Alexandra Thomson – Clarinet
Philip Everall – Bass Clarinet
Kate Walpole – Bassoon
Ruth Klein Cook – Violin
Yasmin Omran – Violin
Erica Ketterer – Viola
Miranda Murray-Yong – Violoncello

PJS are proud to present a night of original jazz from legendary
saxophonist Jamie Oehlers.

This special performance will revisit original music by Jamie, written
across his 30-year career as one of Australia’s leading jazz artists.
This all-star group will perform music from his ARIA nominated and
Bell Award winning albums The Assemblers, Paper Tiger, Night Music,
You R Here and Smoke and Mirrors. Jamie was the winner of the 2005
World Saxophone Competition, Australian Jazz Artist of the Year, and
has won numerous Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Awards for his recordings.

With long-time collaborators Ricki Malet on Trumpet, Harry Mitchell on
Piano, Zac Grafton on Bass and Daniel Susnjar on Drums this band
promises to take you on a musical adventure.

Perth Jazz Society & Tone List join forces for the second concert in new experimental jazz concert series, TuneNoiseTune. Taking place at the Ellington Jazz Club on April 26 as part of Audible Edge, this concert features a rare solo performance from jazz piano maverick Tom O’Halloran, alongside a new commissioned work by Alice Humphries & Thea Rossen, as the debut of their collaborative improvised project unfold.

Pianist Tom O’Halloran’s experiments include the use of analogue synthesizers, Modernist composition techniques & experimental forms in jazz music and improvisation. This extended solo performance offers a window into the mind of one of Perth’s most exploratory and technically accomplished composer-improvisers. It’ll be nothing short of astounding.

Alice Humphries & Thea Rossen similarly draw from the worlds of modern and contemporary classical music, as well as ambient music, in their new project unfold. They use tabletop string instruments, found object percussion and piano, bringing their refined musicality into fragile, textural music. Their new work, supported by 2022’s Audible Edge Festival commissions, threads haunting melodies though the delicate sound-worlds they create together.

Across six concerts in 2022, TuneNoiseTune will bring together new and established musicians from the jazz, pop and experimental scenes in ways rarely heard in Boorloo. New commissions and new collaborations will bring fresh faces to the scene whilst also holding space for long-standing local groups to share excellent and ambitious music in intimate settings.

TuneNoiseTune is possible thanks to the generous support of Carl Erbrich. Audible Edge is proudly supported by the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries.

PJS is looking forward to presenting the first double bill for this year! Two sets of music from some great up and coming local talent.

The Holly Forster Quintet is an exciting new group featuring the original compositions of young alto saxophonist, Holly Forster. Holly has had a rich musical upbringing, surrounded
by the sounds of jazz, funk, blues and soul. Her music reflects influences of Cannonball Adderley, Melissa Aldana, Joe Lovano, Candy Dulfer and a variety of contemporary Australian jazz musicians. The quintet will feature some of Perth’s finest young musicians including; James O’Brien on piano, Cass Evans-Ocharern on bass, Ben Shelley on drums and Sam Forster on guitar. Don’t miss out as Holly takes the stage as the leader of her debut
quintet!

The Milan Project, formed in 2021 is made up of alumni from the prestigious West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. The Milan Project is fast becoming a regular fixture on the Perth music scene. Playing ​​​​​​​original jazz compositions, with styles ranging from Bebop, Swing, Latin and Fusion, The Milan Project will keep you on your feet.

The Perth Jazz Society are proud to present an evening of original jazz by guitarist Freddie Grigson.

Freddie Grigson brings together a fantastic group to play some original music, and jazz standards. The evening will display the talents of some of the finest musicians in the country including Grant Windsor, Jaden Blockley, Chris Tarr, and Alistair Peel.

Come along and see these incredible musicians display their craft.

Jessica Carlton

Join Jessica Carlton and her band for this special performance that lands on her 29th Birthday!

Recently nominated for The Freedman Jazz Fellowship (2021), Bell Award-nominee for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year (2015), and recipient of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Jazz Prize (2013), Jessica Carlton is a trumpet player and composer originally from Melbourne who has made a new home for herself in WA. Carlton has formed a sextet to explore through-composed original compositions in a sextet featuring incredible Perth-based musicians Kristian Borring (guitar), Kate Pass (double bass), Alex Reid (drums), Sarah Ramsey (vocals), and Luke Minness (tenor saxophone). The inspiration for this music comes from Australian jazz artists such as Julien Wilson and Andrea Keller, ECM artists such as Jakob Bro, and the music of Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Jim Black’s Alas No Axis, among others. Carlton recorded her debut album in 2014 in a sextet format and has since explored many different composition and improvisation avenues in a number of trios and quartets (including very recently recording an album with chordless quartet Carlton/Macpherson/Pass/Valenti) and is excited to return to the sextet format for this performance.

Photo attached by Rowan Hardy

Kirsten Symczycz

Kirsten Symczycz is a Perth-based composer and pianist, currently completing her study in jazz composition and arranging at WAAPA. In 2018 she was accepted to attend the Copenhagen Jazz Camp at Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC), an advanced level workshop for young jazz composers with artists in residence Jacob Anderskov, Ingrid Laubrock and Jon Balke. Kirsten has played piano in various bands and ensembles over the past decade, most recently in Artemis Orchestra and Namora Nonet, and has been active within the Perth free-improvised music scene since 2015, performing with artists including pianist and composer Keith Tippett, Taiwan-based vocalist Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and trombonist Matthias Müller.

Largely inspired by contemporary large ensemble jazz composers Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler, Kirsten also draws influence from a wide variety of music including Norwegian ten-piece band Jaga Jazzist, PJ Harvey and Swedish post-metal band Cult of Luna. Interweaving composition and improvisation with arrangements of orchestral colour and texture, Kirsten has composed music to be brought to life by an 11-piece ensemble of outstanding musicians in the Perth music scene.

Alto/Soprano Saxophone - Claire Keet

Tenor Saxophone - Finn Owen

Baritone Saxophone - Camryn Thomason

Trumpet - Jessica Carlton

French Horn - Brooke Prendergast

Trombone - Jonathan Brittain

Bass Trombone - Daniel Kirk

Piano - Peter Luckas

Guitar - Aiden Moroney

Bass - Kate Pass

Drums - Ben Stacy

Gemma Farrell Quintet

The Gemma Farrell Quintet (GFQ) is Gemma Farrell’s main original jazz project. Their debut performance was for the Perth Jazz Society (PJS) at the Perth International Jazz Festival (PIJF) in 2015. They continued to perform around Perth, playing at the Ellington, the Laneway Lounge, the Moon & Four5Nine, before launching their debut album in June 2018, called “Organised Chaos.” The album was featured on RTRFM and ABC Jazz as the local feature album for a week, & they were nominated for Best Jazz Act at the 2018 WAM awards, where they also performed. GFQ has performed at the 2018 & 2019 PIJF, as well as In The Pines 2019, and the 2019 King Street Corner Pocket Jazz Festival. "Organised Chaos" was nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Album at the 2019 Australian Jazz Bell Awards & the track "Be Like Abraham" was nominated for "Best Jazz Work of the Year." GFQ was also nominated for Best Jazz Act at the 2019 WAM awards. In November 2019 GFQ toured Australia, performing at the Sydney Women’s International Jazz Festival, Jazz Music Institute Brisbane & the Jazzlab Melbourne. In 2020 they performed at the Duke of George & the Ellington Jazz Club, before performing at the Rechabite, the Perth Festival, the Neon Picnic and the York Jazz Festival in 2021. GFQ have bookings coming up at PIJF on tour in Busselton in November, and will record their second album in December 2021 which is set to be launched in May 2022. As well as Gemma Farrell on Saxophones, the group consists of Sam Hadlow on Trombone, Dan Garner on Guitar, Kate Pass on Bass & Ryan Daunt on the Drums.

Sky Machine

Sky Machine is a multimedia project from Perth that blends together science fiction, digital art, and jazz fusion. They fuse elements of rock, funk, jazz and metal music with the purpose of taking the audience on a journey that explores a science fiction world populated by superhuman secret agents, artificially intelligent spaceships, covert organisations and a looming threat by an otherworldly power.

Perth Jazz Society invites Juliana Areias to present a full concert of original songs from her acclaimed “Bossa Nova Baby” album – fresh from the USA Top 100 Jazz Charts of 2020 – as well as to provide a hint of the new compositions she is cooking up for her next album in 2022.

Dubbed the “Bossa Nova Baby”, this year Juliana Areias will reach the milestone of 25 years living and performing outside Brazil. Juliana Areias’s original compositions explore her artistic journey – from her birth country of Brazil, where she grew up and was personally introduced to the masters of Bossa Nova, until today living in Perth, where she settled in 2007. During 2021, unable to tour nationally and internationally due to covid restrictions, she has performed a series of emblematic concerts at The Ellington Jazz Club, North Cottesloe Beach, Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre, Perth Festival, and as a soloist with The Perth Symphony Orchestra at the 2021 Western Australian of The Year Awards. All these experiences have inspired her new songs.

Juliana Areias is extremely proud and enthusiastic about the quality of the WA arts scene and is always honoured to share the stage with the groovy cats of her “Bossa Nova Baby Band”, featuring a blazing line-up of sensational musicians, and showcasing the amazing talent and cultural diversity we are so lucky to have in Perth: Paul Millard – sax/flute, Joshua de Silva – seven string hybrid guitars, Bronton Ainsworth – drums, and Brazilian percussionist Rafael Medeiro de Souza.

Juliana Areias has performed on major stages internationally including the Sydney Opera House, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, the Green Room in New York, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Auckland Festival in New Zealand and the legendary Beco das Garrafas in Rio de Janeiro.

Now it is your turn to be entranced by the authentic musical stylings of the Bossa Nova Baby herself, Juliana Areias.

– “The toast of the Perth Jazz Scene. The release of Bossa Nova Baby has elevated her above a mere covers singer or bossa specialist. The singer excels in an elegant co-composed duet (Belas Artes) with Australia’s finest Brazilian-oriented 7-string guitarist, Doug de Vries”.– The Australian – Tony Hillier

– “It’s bossa that plays soccer with Jazz – as it has since the 60’s – and scoring a goal. Bossa Nova Baby” is a welcome surprise of great Brazilian music, made far away.” – O GLOBO– Brazil– Antonio Carlos Miguel – Music critic and judge member of the Latin Grammy Award.

– “The idea of mixing styles and cultures is reflected in Areias’ life and her music” – Daily Record, USA – Bill Nutt

Mrstrio

Mrstrio plays music composed by pianist Hanna Kim, and have been playing music together since Hanna moved to Perth 4 years ago.

Band leader Hanna Kim was born in South Korea and started studying the piano at the age of six. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Piano Performance is Seoul Art College in Korea. Since arriving in Perth she has performed at various jazz venues and festivals. 

Mrstrio features Francisco Javier Munoz Melo and Dario Jiritano on the drums and the bass guitar, respectively. They both graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and have been actively engaged in a variety of musical activities in Perth. They contribute to improving the completeness of Hanna’s music. This trio is like a melting pot of different cultures because it consists of musicians having various nationalities and musical backgrounds — Korean composer and pianist, Chilean drummer and Italian bassist. In this performance, the audience will experience varied and beautiful music by Mrstrio, which integrates Jazz and Crossover styles.

Come and celebrate the release of Mrstrio’s single, “More More” which will be launched at midnight after the performance.

Phoebus Cartel

Phoebus Cartel are here to bring fresh neo-jazz sounds to the Good Will Club for an evening of soaring horn melodies and infectious grooves. With tunes poured from a melting pot of modern jazz, neo-soul with a touch of R&B this energetic quintet are back from hiatus and ready for good times. Come along to join the party and witness some home grown music like no other. 

Featuring: Claire Keet on saxophone, Jessica carlton on trumpet, Will Britto on keys, Kate Pass on bass and Giane Hladin on drums.

Catherine Noblet

After a 10 year hiatus from fronting ensembles, Perth trombonist Catherine Noblet returns to the Perth Jazz Society to perform a set of original compositions with her new quartet, featuring Austin Salisbury (piano), Alistair Peel (bass) and Pete Evans (drums). A WAAPA graduate, Catherine has been a regular member of a number of local bands (including the Mace Francis Orchestra) as well as performing and recording her own music. In 2007, a gig with legendary trombonist Jim Pugh led to the opportunity to undertake a Masters in Jazz Studies at the University of Illinois, receiving a fellowship and teaching assistant position. This new group showcases her experience, musicality and versatility as both a trombonist and as leader of seasoned musicians.

3-@migos

Formed in late 2020, 3-@migos is an explosive Latin Jazz Trio that blurs the line between Jazz, Latin Jazz, World Music, South American Traditional Music (Cuban, Venezuelan, Brazilian) Pop Music and even Classical Music. Expect to listen a wide range of world rhythms, cutting edge Latin Beats, raging montunos and your favourite Jazz Standards with a Latin twist. With influences from John Benitez Trio to Seis del Solar; from The Great American Songbook to The Great Latin Book; from Wayne Shorter to Freddie Hubbard; from Edward Simon to Aaron Parks... This Powerhouse Latin-Jazz ensemble guarantees an innovative and entertaining musical experience!!

Jorge Castillo-Romero: Keyboard

Tommi Flamenco: Bass

Julius Rogers: Drums

Grammy Award winning pedal steel guitarist Lucky Oceans plays a show of only his own compositions for the first time. Not only the favourites from his ‘Secret Steel’ album but some totally new tunes and songs. And all this with his brand new ‘Liquid Ensemble,’ with Kate Pass on double bass, Imogen Thomson on vibes and percussion, Cathie Travers on accordion and Talya Valenti on drums. It will be lush and varied and swinging and spacious. Don’t miss the premier performance!

Sarah Ramsey + Tim Voutas 

For several years, Sarah and Tim have performed together in various ensembles, making this duo an exciting new project combining their shared love of improvisation and melancholy yet uplifting melodies. Their programme will feature original compositions as well as reworkings of jazz and contemporary repertoire. Tonight’s performance will also feature Ricki Malet on trumpet.
Sarah Ramsey | voice

Tim Voutas | piano

       + Ricki Malet | trumpet 

The Love Rats

Having all grown up together in Perth, Western Australia, The Love Rats have a deep musical connection that spans over 10 years, allowing for a unique, creative experience. The band lived and studied together at the prestigious James Morrison Academy of Music, where they studied under the tutelage of some of Australia’s most renowned and in demand jazz musicians. Each individual member has a unique musical voice informed by a broad taste in music, coming together as a collective to create an inspired sound. Performing new compositions and arrangements for Perth Jazz Society, this is an unmissable performance. 

Join us for the launch of our debut album "The Elephant In The Room," an album of original music by Western Australian women. 

The Artemis Orchestra was founded by Gemma Farrell in 2017, with the hope of promoting people of marginalised genders in jazz as musicians, soloists and composers. Less than a quarter of all professional jazz musicians worldwide are female, and even less are non-binary and transgender and this is something which we hope will change for the better in future. The goal is that having an ensemble like this, which is predominately made up of professional female musicians, and also includes non-binary musicians, will inspire young people of maginalised genders in Perth to consider taking on a career in jazz. The Orchestra has performed at the Charles Hotel, at the Four5Nine Bar, the Ellington Jazz Club, His Majesty’s Theatre, Somerville Auditorium and the Rechabite. They have collaborated with the Perth Jazz Society, and with the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra, twice making up a band of WAYJO’s young women and non-binary members, with Artemis’ professional musicians. They have also performed for the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Perth International Jazz Festivals. They have performed the music of Shannon Barnett, Kristin Berardi, Jenna Cave, Louise Denson, Sandy Evans, Gemma Farrell, Sally Greenaway, Alice Humphries, Maddie Ivy, Amelia Jutilane, Andrea Keller, Ellen Kirkwood, Alana Macpherson, Kate Pass, Venessa Perica and Candice Susnjar. The band has also hosted composition workshops and reading sessions for band members, and will continue to do so in future. 

SKACE at 7pm

Artemis Orchestra 1st Set 8pm

Artemis Orchestra 2nd Set 9pm

SKACE is:

Abbie Langford - Alto Saxophone

Sarah Curran - Guitar

Eliza Davis - Piano

Kylee Kotula - Double Bass

Cameron Fermoyle - Drums

Cuban-American pianist/composer Fabian Almazan found his musical roots as a child in Havana where he first became involved in the classical piano tradition. During the completion of his jazz piano bachelor’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music, Almazan immersed himself in the realm of orchestral composition studying instrumentation and orchestration. As a performer, Almazan has developed a personal voice through the electric manipulation of the acoustic piano in live and studio settings. He has toured his music extensively as well as accompanied artists such as Linda May Han Oh, Terence Blanchard, Gretchen Parlato, John Hollenbeck, Mark Guiliana, Dave Douglas, Avishai Cohen and Ambrose Akinmusire among others.

Piano: Fabian Almazan
Bass: Linda May Han Oh
Drums: Daniel Susnjar

ZARAPITO

Michael Pignéguy (drums) combines forces with Brodie Stewart (keyboards) and Joe Powell (elec. bass) to launch ZARAPITO on Thursday, May 20. The group’s focus is predominantly original compositions and arrangements by group members in the electro/fusion realm. While Michael and Brodie have worked together before in The Awakenings Ensemble and Brodie and Joe are members of The Persuasion, this Perth Jazz Society show will see the three artists share the stage for the first time in this new trio format. Certainly a unique occasion on the 2021 Perth music calendar, not one to miss!

NUMBER JUNKY

Formed in early 2020 through a mutual love of numbers and odd-time signatures, Number Junky is a guitar-led trio that plays warped jazz standards and number-crunching original music while retaining a focus on lyrical melodies and lush harmony. The group is made up of experienced jazz improvisers, Danish guitarist Kristian Borring, Zac Grafton on bass, and Peter Evans on drums. They recently recorded an 11 track album of Borring's original compositions and arrangements, which also featured New York pianist Fabian Almazan on a few tracks.   

Back after several years in Europe, the award-winning Alana Macpherson Nonet returns to the Ellington Jazz Club. Combining elements of contemporary jazz, free jazz, and heavy rock, this ensemble delivers stunning melodies, floating textures and hard-hitting grooves. In 2018 this large ensemble took out the WAM “Best Live Jazz Act” award, and the title track of their debut album “All or Nothing At All” won the 2019 international Downbeat Student Music Award for “Best Large Ensemble Arrangement”. Featuring some of Perth’s finest musicians, this is a night not to be missed.

Alana Macpherson – alto saxophone / compositions
Ricki Malet – trumpet
Gemma Farrell – tenor saxophone
Blake Phillips – trombone
Jessica Beahan – bass clarinet
Jacob Mitchell – guitar
Austin Salisbury – piano
Kate Pass – bass
Alex Reid – drums

Allira Wilson - Vocals

Presented in partnership with Tone List’s Audible Edge Festival, two beloved jazz-noisers premiere new bands that we've commissioned just for this occasion. Spiky dissonance and forward momentum abound, as Ben Greene enquiries into the elusive nature of reality through the heightened presence of improvisation, and Djuna Lee's 'jalan-jalan' presents an atonal groove music for the future.

▶︎ Ben Greene Sextet - Ben Greene, with Dom Barrett, Jonathan Brittain, Adam Buckley, Dan O’Connor & Finn Owen

▶︎ jalan-jalan - Djuna Lee, with Simon Charles & Ben Greene (& other special guests)

For the full festival program, artist bios and more, check out the website: http://ae.tonelist.com.au/

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All Audible Edge 2021 events are pay-what-you-want (both pre-sales and door sales). For this show, we’d suggest $10, $20 or $30 depending on your means.

We trust that you will make a decision considerately, with respect both to your own circumstances, and to the amount of work and volunteer hours that go into this festival. Thank you!

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Tone List operates on the lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. We pay our respects to custodians and elders of this boodja past, present and future. We strive to listen to and be guided by place - boodja nih - in what we do.

Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms. Seating available.

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Audible Edge has been assisted by the Government of Western Australia through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and the City of Perth through its arts sponsorship program. We are proud to be presenting the festival in association with, and with the support of, Cool Change Contemporary, Liquid Architecture, The Bird, Perth Jazz Society, The Rechabite, and Tura New Music

ENGADINE TRIO

Engadine Trio is the brainchild of James Sewell, Kane Shaw and Ben Griffith ble­nding modern jazz wi­th folksy Australian elements. Originally inspired to explore the space of a dru­mless trio influenced by artists such as Paul Motion, Julien Wilson Trio and Bill Frisell, the group has recently releas­ed its first EP.

RADIO REPAIRS

Original jazz quartet Radio Repairs - Ricki Malet (trumpet), Ronan Charles (piano), Dan Dipaola (drums) and Phil Waldron (double bass) - have now racked up 20 odd years of playing and writing instrumental music together. If you could make a new music machine out of deeply scratched jazz records and old photographs of your mother when she still smoked, and then tied it all together with a genuine vintage snapped high-wire that a circus left behind, then you’d pretty much get the taste of their blend of chilled noir balladry and the kind of elastic groove and improv that comes from so many years of playing together. Not to be missed.