The trio is a story of musical friendship dating back 28 years. Three of Australia’s most renowned, experienced, and travelled musicians seek new exciting places through their adventurous playing together. Cody, Evans, and Swanton explore originals, standards, and free playing in a fun and confident fashion, with infectious grooves, strong time, humour, and moments of sublime lyricism.
The cathollics is doing our first show of 2024 early next month, at the Foundry on Saturday the 10th of February. We welcome back percussionist Adem Yilmaz. If you haven't heard Adem with The catholics yet, make a point of coming down to this one. His eastern textures and intricate fingerwork are truly something to […]
This project features compositions by Evans and Robson that explore a wide range of contemporary jazz, improvised music and intercultural connections. Evans’ powerful tenor sound and soaring soprano melodies combined with Robson’s great sense of groove and uncanny instinct for melodic lyricism creates a beautiful and engaging musical dialogue.
Please note, this concert is not going ahead on 24 March due to Covid among us. We will publish the new event date when we know it. This collaboration features renowned saxophonists Sandy Evans and Andrew Robson in a dynamic ensemble rich with energy, passion, groove, spontaneity, and imagination. Completing the stellar line-up are the sensational bass player Brett Hirst and brilliant drummer Hamish Stuart.
We're welcoming two special guests on the night. Percussionist Adem Yilmaz wowed everybody at our May concert with his exquisite middle Eastern textures and tonalities and we're delighted to have him back so soon. And on guitar, we are welcoming back one of the brightest and most imaginative young talents in the country, Nick Mielczarek. […]
Postcards from the Anthropocene is presented as part of the WinterJazzFest Freedom Jazz Dance series | 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 Evans, Adam Hulburt and Hamish Stuart recorded this series of improvisations at UNSW reflecting on photographs they had taken during the preceding period of crisis and devastation. This music is offered as a protest against environmental destruction and climate change. The themes Mirage, Embers, Inferno, Skyline, Resistance and Aftermath inform these improvisations and reflections. The results are stunning- traversing ambient soundscapes, spacious grooves, troubled cries, dissonances resolution, surprise, peaceful reflection and even humour. It is not often that a project can genuinely speak of ‘original sounds’ but this is one such project. | Sandy Evans, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Suling, Flax | Hamish Stuart, Drums | Adam Hulbert, Euroback modular synthesiser with theremin and wind controller.
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.
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.
This gig features a mighty ten – member version of the Coltrane Project to play John Coltrane’s rarely performed magnum opus Ascension. This version of the Coltrane Project band will include 2 basses and a talented array of improvisers with different approaches. Ascension features each soloist in turn alternating with barrages of horns and drums as the whole ensemble reaches for the stars!
In the afterglow of Valentines newly pledged, Mara! focus on love’s caprice… hearts won and lost…the language may change, but the feeling’s the same.