
John Shand review Evans/Elphick/Odamura at SIWJF
John Shand reviews Evans/Elphick/Odamura performance at the 2020 SIWJF. “World class is world class, pandemic or not.”
Photo credit: Mohsen Zoltany Sand
TONY GORMAN & BOBBY SINGH DUO ‘…intensely beautiful and meditative …’ Limelight Magazine
plus Sandy Evans Trio with Bobby Singh, Featuring Brett Hirst and Toby Hall
When Ten Part Invention play, it’s always an event and their September 21st gig will be no different. The line-up consists of brilliant soloists and the book bulges with superb compositions from some of the major jazz composers in the history of Australian jazz.
Find out more »In this special collaboration, the internationally-renowned Sandy Evans Trio is joined by two very special guests – saxophonist Andrew Robson and drummer Hamish Stuart. Completing the stellar line up is sensational bass player Brett Hirst.
Find out more »You will hear Kim’s music being played by extraordinary musicians. The stellar line-up is Sandy Evans, Llew Kiek, Boyd, Mark Szeto, Peter Kennard, Chris Field, Stuart Vandegraaff, James Greening, Sam Golding and Ron Reeves as well as special guest Ivailo Karamanliev on kaval.
Find out more »Sandy Evans, one of Australia’s most well-known jazz saxophonists and composers, directs this musical interpretation of Gandhi’s writings on non-violence, joined by Australian-Indian musicians Sarangan Sriranganathan (sitar/vocals) and Bobby Singh (tabla), and her all-star band.
Find out more »As part of her Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence role this is the launch of “Postcards from the Anthropocene” with collaborators Hamish Stuart (drums) and Adam Hulbert (eurotrack modular synthesiser and theremin) from Halfback Books on Sydney’s northern beaches.The album was recorded during last year’s bushfire crisis and is offered as a protest against environmental destruction and climate change.In December 2019, Sydney was enveloped in a thick blanket of smoky haze. It was on one of the worst days for bushfire smoke that Sandy,…
Find out more »Closing the festival, this special event features the talents of our 2020 Artist in Resident Dr Sandy Evans OAM, alongside long-time collaborators Satsuki Odamura and Steve Elphick for Magic Music.
Find out more »Jazz innovator Sandy Evans and tabla master Bobby Singh continue their long friendship and collaborative partnership with a performance exploring the intersections between jazz and Indian classical music.
Find out more »John Shand reviews Evans/Elphick/Odamura performance at the 2020 SIWJF. “World class is world class, pandemic or not.”
Photo gallery by Shane Rozario of ‘Magic Music’ at the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival. Sandy Evans, bassist Steve Elphick and koto virtuoso Satsuki Odamura.
Newsworthy sat down with Sandy Evans and Ellen Kirkwood to talk about everything from their musical childhoods, to their successes to the challenges for women
The ten-day Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival (SIWJF) which began on Friday 30th, will feature more than 30 leading female musicians across Sydney venues and clubs, celebrating