S I M A P R E S E N T S

WINTER JAZZ2018

ABOUT SYDNEY IMPROVISED MUSICASSOCIATION (SIMA)Founded in 1984, Sydney Improvised Music Association (SIMA)is a not-for-profit dedicated to the support of jazz and art-drivenmusic projects. For 16 years we’ve been holding the YoungWomen’s Jazz Workshops, we co-present the SydneyInternational Women’s Jazz Festival, we have our young artistdevelopment program Trigger, our regional festival Berry Jazz,our western Sydney jazz workshops Cool for School, ouradministering of the Freedman Classical and Jazz Fellowshipsand concerts, and our regular programming of Winter andSummer Jazz seasons.

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WELCOME I am delighted to present this year’sWinter Jazz program with a line-updesigned to expose our audiencesto the very best creative music onoffer.

We are proud to present one of themost exciting electronic jazz acts inthe world today, KNOWER (USA)on June 6. We’ve also partneredwith Sydney Guitar Festival tobring you legendary guitarist MarcRibot on August 11.

The iconic, ARIA Award-winningWanderlust open this year’sseason with their 25th anniversary celebration. Other Australianhighlights include 2017 National Jazz Award winner JamesMacaulay with his Happy Hoppy Orchestra, Queenslander ZacHurren launching his new album and Sydney’s own ZelaMargossian making her SIMA headlining debut.

This season’s Trigger Artist is bassist JaquesEmery. Introduced in Winter 2016, the Trigger initiativespotlights outstanding young artists by providing a high-profilepublic performance opportunity with established musicians.Since its inception, Trigger has grown so that we are nowdelighted to offer recording opportunities and mentoring. Pleasevisit sima.org.au to donate and support this important initiative.

The closing night of Winter Jazz plays host to the FreedmanNew Jazz Series. This concert features twoFreedman Fellowship winners, saxophonist Julien Wilson withhis all-star band and virtuosic classical percussionist ClaireEdwardes.

No matter which night you attend, our weekly Saturday programguarantees you an exceptional evening of music.

See you at a show soon!

Zoe HauptmannArtistic Director SIMA

PO Box 55, Broadway NSW 2007P +61 2 9036 6292 admin@sima.org.auwww.sima.org.au

BARRETT & CLARKEAward-winning bassist Brendan Clarke has teamed up with oneof the most talented pianists of his generation, Hugh Barrett.Brendan and Hugh were long time members of JazzgrooveMothership Orchestra, the Neilsen Gough Quartet and TheDenominators. Expect exhilarating original sonic journeys andexplorations of the music of John Coltrane, Bud Powell, KennyBarron and Mulgrew Miller amongst others.

HUGH BARRETT piano BRENDAN CLARKE bass

Saturday 2 June

OPENING NIGHT: WANDERLUST,CELEBRATING 25 YEARS“The entire world of musical influences has been distilled intothis one band…” MCA Music Forum Magazine

ARIA Award-winning, iconic Sydney all-star band Wanderlustcelebrates their 25th anniversary. Wanderlust first appeared aspart of the creative surge that swept Sydney’s jazz scene in theearly 1990s, and their core ensemble has remained consistentover 25 years.

Under the leadership of one of Australia’s best trumpeters andcomposers, Miroslav Bukovsky, Wanderlust has forged auniquely identifiable sound blending global beats and melodieswith jazz improvisation. Wanderlust has performed at majorfestivals across Europe, Asia and Australia. With six highlyacclaimed albums and an ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album(1994), Wanderlust is one of Australia’s most enduring andiconic ensembles.

MIROSLAV BUKOVSKY trumpet, flugelhorn JAMES GREENINGtrombone JEREMY SAWKINS guitar ALISTER SPENCE pianoBRENDAN CLARKE bass FABIAN HEVIA drums, percussion

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Wednesday 6 June

KNOWER (USA) [FULL BAND] AT THE FACTORYTHEATRESpearheading a new movement in electronic music andintelligent pop, LA-based five-piece KNOWER represents thebest of drummer-producer Louis Cole and singer GenevieveArtadi’s iconic hot funk vocal style.Trained jazz musicianscreating pop masterpieces in electronica, KNOWER begangarnering attention in 2010, with their “hypercognizant,cyberpunk” covers of Daft Punk, Britney Spears, Skrillex,Ke$ha, Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Michael Jackson onYouTube.

Not only is KNOWER’s electro funk-pop at the very forefront ofimprovised electronic music, but their unique aesthetic and DIYviral videos have become an international internet phenomenon.On YouTube, their 2017 video ‘Overtime (Live Band Sesh)’ gotover 3.5 million views in its first week.

KNOWER opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2017, and thiswill be their first trip to Australia, where they will tour their fourthalbum Life (2016). Their all-star five-piece for this tour includesexpat Rai Thistlethwayte (Thirsty Merc) on keys. Their live showstake their infectious energy to another level. Michael Jackson’slegendary producer Quincy Jones, an early KNOWER fan, bestsums up why you can’t miss them: “KNOWER will be leavin’y’all on your knees, beggin’ for more.”

GENEVIEVE ARTADI vocals LOUIS COLE drums, vocals RAI THISTLETHWAYTE keys JACOB MANN keys SAM WILKES bass

9pm

SARAH BELKNER“a singular artist” - Rolling Stone

“baroque pop gem” - FBi Radio

Sarah Belkner’s music lies somewhere between pop, baroqueand electronic music. Her 2017 dreamscape indie-pop debut,But You Are, But It Has, was Double J album of the week, andthe video for accompanying single ‘Cellophane’ was premieredby Rolling Stone. The Au Review named Sarah’s liveperformance one of the Top 8 acts at The Great Escape 2017(Brighton, UK). She supported Lisa Mitchell on her UK tour,Olympia on her Australian tour, and toured the UK and Europeopening for Sarah Blasko. Expect catchy, emotional vocalhooks and a rich world of complex, subtle, layeredarrangements.

SARAH BELKNER composition, vocals, keyboardsMATT KEEGAN baritone clarinet, saxophones

8pm

DINGBATS?! Three-piece rock set-upDingBats?! playimprovised music for thethinking public. Theirmusic traverses fromambient and dirge-like to

bright and hard-hitting, in the shape of thematic improvisations,soundscapes and dense layered grooves. Think Bill Frisell,Kyuss, Pink Floyd and Battles.

OLIVER THORPE guitar TIM CURNICK bass TULLY RYAN drums

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Saturday 16 June

ZAC HURREN QUARTET, (QLD) ASYLUMALBUM LAUNCH“Zac Hurren is one bright light!” - Bernie McGann

“One of the leaders of his generation of improvisers” - PaulGrabowsky 

National Jazz Award-winner, ARIA Award-winner and FreedmanFellowship finalist Zac Hurren is a distinctly Australiansaxophonist, composer and improviser. In 2011 Zac won theARIA Award for Best Jazz Album with his group Elixir, and theyare currently preparing to record their next album with KatieNoonan and Stephen Magnusson, featuring a collaboration withAustralian luminary Michael Leunig. With roots firmly probing therich soils of Australian jazz and improvisation, Zac’s chordlessquartet also draws inspiration from classical ideas from baroqueto serialism.

ZAC HURREN tenor saxophone, composition SIMON FERENCItrumpet CAMERON UNDY double bass SIMON BARKER drums

SUPPORT BRADPLAYS BALLADSBradford Child has been afixture in Sydney jazz for 30years. The Brad ChildOrchestra were weeklyresidents at the Soup Plusfor nine years, and he hasperformed internationally atRonnie Scott’s, Notting HillFestival, Edinburgh Festivaland many more. Come seewhy Brad is a worldrenowned interpreter of oldballads.

BRAD CHILD tenorsaxophone PETER LOCKEpiano

Saturday 9 June

JAMES MACAULAY (VIC) AND THE HAPPYHOPPY ORCHESTRA, TODAY WILL BEANOTHER DAY ALBUM LAUNCH“an outstanding trombone player, one of the best in the country”– Peter Knight

“technically fluent and bursting with ideas” – Eric Myers, TheAge

National Jazz Award-winner James Macaulay recently returnedfrom recording his dream project, Today Will Be Another Day, inTokyo. The music is inspired by his experiences in Japan,touring with Melbourne traditional jazz band the Lagerphonesand pianist Aaron Choulai. Inspired by the work of the AllanBrowne Quintet, James combines lyricism and abstraction toproduce new ways to organise improvisation within a jazzseptet. A powerhouse cast of local musicians join him for theSydney launch.

JAMES MACAULAY trombone WARWICK ALDER trumpetPETER FARRAR alto saxophone MATT KEEGAN tenorsaxophone STEVE BARRY piano PHIL STACK bass FINN RYANdrums

SUPPORT PETER DASENT TRIOPeter Dasent is well known as a solo pianist and leader of sextetThe Umbrellas, “one of the treasures of Australian music”(Sydney Morning Herald). For the first time, Peter has beenrevisiting some of his favourite compositions written 30-40 yearsago in a classic piano trio format.

PETER DASENT piano MAX ALDUCA double bass FINN RYAN

Saturday 23 June

DANS LES ARBRES (FRANCE/NORWAY)“Dans Les Arbres must be one of the finest ECM improvreleases – indeed, releases from any label – in recent years” -The Wire

“highly unusual, extremely beautiful, utterly bizarre while stillbeing accessible” - Free Jazz Blog

ECM Records artists Dans Les Arbres are making some of themost engaging, mysterious and beautiful music in the field ofimprovisation. Nominated for the prestigious Nordic Music Prizein 2015, the idiosyncratic French-Norwegian ensemblecombines airy, wooden, metallic sounds, prepared strings andtampered drum heads. Their strange sound world and their finesense of communication lead to collective playing andspontaneous group-composing in a class of its own.

Since recording their first album in 2006, Dans Les Arbres hasperformed more than 120 concerts around the globe. Their twosubsequent ECM Records albums received praise fromreviewers and audiences alike. They’ve been joined by guestmusicians such as Yumiko Tanaka, Otomo Yoshihide, JimO Rourke, Norwegian duo Vilde & Inga and The NorwegianWind Ensemble. In 2015 they drew mainstream nationalattention from their performance with the Oslo Sinfonietta ofHellstenius’s About Nature at the Oslo Opera House.

Most apparent in the band’s 2017 release Phosphorescence ishow masterful the four members of the collective have nowbecome, and how intensely focused in their work, secure in the

group’s identity as a kind of ‘supergroup’ making absolutelycontemporary music that’s completely peerless. Even the rangeof sounds they choose to inhabit has taken on a satisfyingsense of familiarity: Dans Les Arbres make Dans Les Arbresmusic out of Dans Les Arbres sounds. It is, all in all, aconsiderable achievement.

XAVIER CHARLES clarinet IVAR GRYDELAND electric guitarCHRISTIAN WALLUMRØD prepared piano INGAR ZACH bassdrum, percussion

SUPPORT MICK STUART ON POLYMBAThe Polymba is acompletely uniqueinstrument comprising126 steel tines amplifiedthrough guitar pickups,dreamt up and devisedby musician/performerMick Stuart. Usingminimal effects, Mick willtake you on anentrancing journeythrough a uniquesoundscape that hasnever before enteredyour ears or imagination.

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Saturday 30 June

ZELA MARGOSSIAN QUINTETZela Margossian Quintet performs passionate, energetic ethno-jazz influenced by traditional Armenian music. They were astand-out crowd favourite at the 2017 Sydney InternationalWomen’s Jazz Festival, and have recently returned fromperforming at the Beirut International Jazz Festival. Born inBeirut, Zela went on to study piano performance in Armenia,where she developed a passion for the ethno-jazz of the livelylocal scene. Since moving to Sydney, Zela has beenestablishing herself as ‘one to watch’ as an artist andcomposer. In this performance the audience will be treated tonew music, including unheard material from their forthcomingdebut album.

ZELA MARGOSSIAN piano STUART VANDEGRAAFF clarinet,nay, saxophone ELSEN PRICE double bass ADEM YILMAZpercussion ALEXANDER INMAN-HISLOP drums

SUPPORT TREVOR BROWNTrevor was a featured artist at Ars Electronica 2017 andreceived Australia Council funding to tour his durational workDRONESCAPE across six European countries. Combiningclassical, jazz, world, experimental and electronic music,Trevor’s one-man show has received great acclaim, termed“mesmerising” and “brilliant” by The Scotsman (Edinburgh).

TREVOR BROWNsaxophone,clarinet, flute,electronics

Saturday 7 July

TRIPLE BILL: SOME OF TWO PARTSars in the making, Some of Two Parts made their major publicdebut to great acclaim at the Sydney International Women’sJazz Festival in 2017, enthralling the crowd with their all-originalreal-time compositions. Together, accomplished pianist andcomposer Mark Isaacs and versatile saxophonist and AustraliaArts Council recipient Loretta Palmeiro carry Iberian folkloricelements such as flamenco and fado over a jazz-meetscontemporary-classical

LORETTA PALMEIRO soprano saxophone MARK ISAACS piano

MATT KEEGAN’S K2 8.45PM

Freedman Fellow Matt Keegan’s newmajor work, Vienna Dreaming, isdedicated to his great grandfather,Austrian-born pianist Heini Portnoj.

Matt will perform excerpts from thissuite of programmatic music with liveOctatrack soundscapes, textures andgrooves designed to inspire melodicand rhythmic improvised dialoguebetween saxophone and drums.Against this sonic backdrop Keegan will explore his full paletteof otherworldly saxophone effects, crafted over the past 20years of creative exploration.

MATT KEEGAN saxophones, effects, Octatrack FINN RYANdrums and percussion

JESSICA DUNN 8pm

Award-winning bassist, composer andleader of 18-piece Sirens Big Band,Jessica Dunn has been developingoriginal repertoire for solo double bass,with extended techniques and the use ofelectronics.

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Saturday 14 July

TRIGGER:PRESENTINGJACQUES EMERY& BANDBe inspired by the soundof tomorrow in SIMA’sTrigger showcase,spotlighting ‘one to watch’each season - anoutstanding, early careerjazz artist. In Winter 2018,we present award-winningyoung double bassist,Jacques Emery. Alreadyin-demand as animprovising bassist inSydney’s jazz scene,

Jacques is involved with several original projects such asminimalist, improvising trio Bornholdt/Emery/Inman-Hislop andindie-jazz outfit HEKKA.

As part of the Trigger initiative, Jacques’s minimal compositionsare brought to life in collaboration with two of Sydney’s mostversatile and established improvisers, pianist Matt McMahonand drummer James Waples. Hear some of the most excitingmusical ideas coming from the new generation as the trio slowlyunfolds huge sound worlds of Jacques’ devising, andexperiments with some well-known jazz repertoire.

JACQUES EMERY composition, double bass MATT MCMAHONpiano JAMES WAPLES drums

SUPPORT JODIEMICHAEL TRIOWinner of the 2013 Jann RutherfordMemorial Award and named one ofthe ‘Next Big Things’ by TheSydney Morning Herald, JodieMichael leads this idiosyncraticexploration of late 1960s and avant-garde repertoire. They’ll exploresong forms and melodic structuresnot commonly traversed today.

JODIE MICHAEL drums PETERFARRAR saxophoneJONATHAN ZWARTZ bass

Saturday 21 July

PAUL CUTLAN’S STRINGPROJECT, MERGE/EMERGE“Paul Cutlan has always had a spiritualhalo around his music” – Australian Jazz

“an improvised reverie of centuries past” –John Shand

In 2015, Paul Cutlan launched his first String Project album to acapacity SIMA audience left in raptures. In 2018, Paul Cutlan’sString Project is back with a new work that reflects on thecentenary of the ‘war to end all wars’. Imagine the refinedsounds of a string quartet improvising exquisite texturesalongside the dark ruminations of double bass and bassclarinet, played by two of Australia’s most experienced jazzmusicians. This is the sound world created by Paul Cutlan’sString Project.

PAUL CUTLAN composition, bass clarinet LIISA PALLANDI violinLACHLAN O’DONNELL violin JAMES ECCLES viola OLIVERMILLER cello BRETT HIRST double bass

SUPPORT SIMON BARKER, URGENCY! DRUMCHANTS FOR KIRIBATI AND THE MARSHALLISLANDS, DOUBLE ALBUM LAUNCHJoin legendary local drummer Simon Barker for the launch of adouble album of solo drumming chants, Urgency! Drum Chantsfor Kiribati and the Marshall Islands. Developed and played in

solidarity with communitiesand ecosystems facingupheaval due to climatechange, don’t miss this latestwork from “Australia’s mostdistinctive kit-drummer” (JohnShand).

SIMON BARKER drums

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Saturday 28 July

EAMON DILWORTH, VIATA ALBUM LAUNCH“Beautifully atmospheric” - Lloyd Swanton (The Necks, TheCatholics)

Sydney composer and trumpeter Eamon Dilworth (TijuanaCartel, Ed Kuepper, Low Down Riders) presents new ensembleand album, Viata. Inspired by a journey through Romania, viatameans ‘life’ in Romanian. Best known for his previous albumswith The Dilworths, Eamon has also performed with DaleBarlow, James Muller, The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra,Nigel Kennedy, Guy Sebastian, Jessica Mauboy and Asgier, andtoured Europe three times with Caravana Sun. Viata bringstogether highly regarded improvisers and composers AlisterSpence, Jonathan Zwartz, Carl Morgan and Paul Derricott, andforms a pensive soundtrack capturing the mood of hisRomanian wandering.

EAMON DILWORTH trumpet ALISTER SPENCE pianoCARL MORGAN guitar JONATHAN ZWARTZ bassPAUL DERRICOTT drums

SUPPORT KATE WADEY TRIOKate Wadey is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with inAustralian jazz. Her recently released 2018 album, A HundredYears from Today, is an excellent introduction to the charm andsophistication which has already won her so many fans. Expecthighly assured, fine, characterful and swinging jazz fare.

KATE WADEY vocals HARRY SUTHERLAND piano SAMUELDOBSON double bass

Saturday 4 August

PHILLIP JOHNSTON & THE COOLERATORS,DIGGIN’ BONES ALBUM LAUNCH

“seminal, brilliantpost-modern jazz”– DownbeatMagazine

“It is jazz playedwith some truewit… quirky,cartoonish pieces,coloured withchirpy melodiesand unexpectedmoments ofpoignancy” – JohnShand (SydneyMorning Herald)

Originally hailing from New York City, The New Yorker calledPhillip Johnston, “An exceptionally individualistic composer andsuperb improviser”. He has led Phillip Johnston & TheCoolerators in one form or another since moving to Australia in2005. Both groovy and cerebral, The Coolerators play funkydance music for a cartoon universe. Now they present Phillip’ssecond Australian recording, Diggin’ Bones: tight, compact,funky, smart, and a reinvention of organ groove jazz.

PHILLIP JOHNSTON soprano and alto saxophoneALISTER SPENCE organ LLOYD SWANTON bassNICK CECIRE drums

SUPPORT AMPHIBIOUS DUO Oliver Miller (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Orchestra of theAntipodes, Paul Cutlan’s String Project) and Aaron ‘Baz’ Flower(National Jazz Guitar Award winner, 2007) showcase an intimateversion of the Amphibious Quartet’s unusual mélange - thebeauty and expressive depth of classical music, the rhythmicand improvisational approach of jazz, with the sound worlds ofalternative/post-rock and pop.

OLIVER MILLER cello AARON FLOWER guitar

Saturday 11 August

MARC RIBOT (USA) AT MANNING BARPresented in partnership with Sydney Guitar Festival

“He can sit down with just his guitar and simultaneouslyconfound you with technique, beauty, and surprise” -PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2010

With over 20 albums under his own name over a 30-year career,guitarist Marc Ribot has explored every mood from thepioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of ArsenioRodríguez. He is well-known to wider audiences as the manwho “helped Tom Waits refine a new, weird Americana on1985’s Rain Dogs, and since then he’s become the go-to guitarguy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant andAlison Krauss, Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp” (Rolling Stone).

His 2010 solo album Silent Movies made the LA Times ‘Best of2010’ list and was deemed a “down-in-mouth-near masterpiece” by the Village Voice. His monumental 2014 release, MarcRibot Trio Live at the Village Vanguard made DownBeatMagazine’s ‘Best of 2014’ and NPR’s 50 Favourites.

2018 sees the release of two politically charged albums: YRUStill Here?, the long awaited third album from Ribot’s post-rock/noise trio Ceramic Dog, and Songs of Resistance,featuring guest vocalists Tom Waits, Steve Earle, MeshellNdegeocello and more, voicing anger and outrage during theseturbulent times.

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SUPPORT JESS GREEN’S BRIGHT SPARKSAward-winning Canberra guitarist Jess Green has severalalbums under her own name and launched her art-pop projectPheno at last year’s Vivid festival. Tonight she presents a four-piece version of her longstanding Bright Sparks ensemble,founded as a way of combining her love of horn-based jazz withindie rock and art music.

JESS GREEN guitar LACHLAN COVENTRY bass MATT KEEGANsaxophones EVAN MANELL drums

SUPPORT DANAIDESDanaïdes is a wild cross-pollination of jazz, ‘80s electro andgrunge rock. Brought to you by highly qualified guitaristsFreedman Fellow Ben Hauptmann and National Jazz GuitarAward-winner Aaron Flower, along with one of Australia’s mostin-demand jazz drummer’s Evan Mannell, the core of the musicis a uniquely muscular jazz.

BEN HAUPTMANN guitar AARON FLOWER guitarEVAN MANNELL drums

SUPPORT CLAIRE EDWARDES“truly spectacular to watch... deservedly met with astanding ovation” Limelight Magazine

Three-time winner of the APRA Art Music Award forExcellence, 2005 Freedman Classical Fellow, mavericksolo percussionist Claire Edwardes will transport youto new places “like a high priestess” (Canberra Times)as a waterphone merges with drums, rattles, flowerspots and everyday objects to create a sonic worldunlike any other.

CLAIRE EDWARDES solo percussion

Saturday 18 August

FREEDMAN NEW JAZZ SERIES, JULIENWILSON QUINTET (VIC)This very special SIMA x Freedman New Jazz concertbrings together Freedman Jazz Fellow, Julien Wilson andFreedman Classical Fellow, Claire Edwardes, in a night ofspectacular music that is sure to stand testament to thealmost 20 year institution of Freedman Fellowships

“A storytelling quality that places him proudly in the lineage ofsuch great tenor balladeers as Lester Young, Dexter Gordon,John Coltrane, Stan Getz and Joe Lovano” - Rhythms Magazine

The Julien Wilson Quintet (Vic) returns to Sydney for anexclusive SIMA performance. Julien won the 1994 National JazzAward at the age of 22, the 2008 Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Awardfor Australian Jazz Artist of the Year, the 2015 APRA Art MusicAward for Excellence in Jazz and was the 2006 FreedmanFellow. His quartet with Jonathan Zwartz, Barney McAll andAllan Browne won three 2014 Jazz ‘Bell’ Awards. For thisconcert Julien has selected music that will enable eachmusician to dig deeply into their own personal experience. Thispromises to be a heartfelt and explosive concert, tied togetherby a deep musical brotherhood.

JULIEN WILSON tenor sax BARNEY MCALL pianoCARL DEWHURST electric guitar JONATHAN ZWARTZ doublebass HAMISH STUART drums and cymbals

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WINTER JAZZ PROGRAM 2018HOW TO BOOK Visit sima.org.au or telephone the SeymourCentre Box Office on 02 9351 7940. For KNOWER and MarcRibot, visit sima.org.au or telephone Century Venues on 02 9550 3666

BOOK NOW FOR EARLY BIRD PRICES ON ALL SOUNDLOUNGE CONCERTS UNTIL MAY 31!

Want access to even more discounts and special offers?Become a SIMA Member for only $50 (Standard) or $40(Musician/Concession). Visit sima.org.au or telephone us on 02 9036 6292 for more information

All concerts are at The Sound Lounge (Seymour Centre) exceptKNOWER (USA) at Factory Theatre and Marc Ribot (USA) at Manning Bar.

Saturday 25 August

CHRIS CODY OCTET, LA PÉROUSE SUITE“World class, swinging, passionate, alert and intuitive” -Cadence Jazz Magazine (USA)

As an Australian jazz pianist living in Paris for 25 years, ChrisCody became drawn to the story of French navigator LaPérouse, who landed in Botany Bay in 1788. “What I like aboutLa Pérouse and his journey is that it wasn’t about conquest… Itwas all about learning and expanding human knowledge. “

When Chris returned to Sydney in 2013, he felt compelled towrite La Pérouse Suite, an original composition for 10instruments and eight musicians. Mostly jazz, it has someclassical and world music references, as well as subtle flavoursbrought in from La Pérouse’s travels. Don’t miss this worldpremiere of a landmark work.

CHRIS CODY composition, piano JAMES GREENING Trombone,didjeridoo LLOYD SWANTON bass FABIAN HEVIA drums,percussion

Additional instrumentation of flute, clarinet, trumpet, saxophoneand accordion. Visit sima.org.au for updates

SUPPORT AMBREHAMMOND & MARCELLO MAIOClassical pianist AmbreHammond and accordionvirtuoso Marcello Maio presentsome of the most haunting andcelebrated music by AstorPiazzolla, as well as music byBrazilian composer Jobim as ataste of their upcoming album.

MARCELLO MAIO accordionAMBRE HAMMOND piano

Date Artist Early Bird Price Standard

Adult I SIMA Memb/Con IStudent

Adult I SIMA Memb/Con I Student

Sat 2 Jun Wanderlust 25th Anniversary $30/$25/$20 $35/$30/$25

Wed 6 Jun KNOWER (USA) [full band]

Sat 9 Jun James Macaulay (Vic) &Happy Hoppy Orch. AlbumLaunch

$30/$25/$20 $35/$30/$25

Sat 16 Jun Zac Hurren (Qld) QuartetAlbum Launch

$25/$20/$15 $30/$25/$20

Sat 23 Jun Dans Les Arbres(France/Norway)

$32/$26/$20 $38/$32/$26

Sat 30 Jun Zela Margossian Quintet $25/$20/$15 $30/$25/$20

Sat 7 Jul Some of Two Parts/MattKeegan’s K2/Jessica Dunn

$20/$15/$10 $25/$20/$15

Sat 14 Jul Trigger: Presenting JacquesEmery & Band

$20/$15/$10 $25/$20/$15

Sat 21 Jul Paul Cutlan’s StringProject/Simon Barker Launch

$30/$25/$20 $35/$30/$25

Sat 28 Jul Eamon Dilworth AlbumLaunch

$25/$20/$15 $30/$25/$20

Sat 4 Aug Phillip Johnston & TheCoolerators Album Launch

$25/$20/$15 $30/$25/$20

Sat 11 Aug Marc Ribot (USA)

Sat 18 Aug Julien Wilson Quintet / Claire Edwardes

$25/$20/$15 $30/$25/$20

Sat 25 Aug Chris Cody, La Pérouse SuitePremiere

$30/$25/$20 $35/$30/$25

$44.50 + BF

$45 (Standing) / $55(Unallocated Seating) + BF

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