Jazz Café 2019

By Ben Marston, Director of Bands

When:   Friday 30 August, 7pm
Where:  Radford College Performing Arts Centre
Tickets: $20/individual, $120/table of 7*
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*Bookings essential, no tickets available at the door

BYO food and drink

 

The Jazz Café on Friday 30 August will feature our Radford jazz ensembles performing music in both the swing and latin style with various instrumentalists to be featured improvising soloists. Jazz Café is a Radford event that has been well established for over a decade and this year we felt it time to examine an instrument less associated with jazz, the violin. Whilst artists like Stephane Grappelli and Regena Carter have brought jazz violin an element of notoriety it is still often overlooked in the jazz context. Here in Canberra we are lucky enough to have one of Australia’s best exponents of jazz violin so this year we have the pleasure to welcome Llewellyn Osborne as the guest artist to the Jazz Café. 

"Elle Osborne has been involved with the school of music programme since 1986, and was classically trained. Curious about the art of improvisation, Elle completed the ANU jazz programme with honours in 2014, and has been a part of the Canberra jazz scene for a number of years. She is currently enrolled in a Masters Degree at the ANU, exploring ways of improving transitionary steps between classical violin and improvisation. This work concentrates on extracting strongly melodic material (motifs) in popular classical works, and employing them over non-notated chord-changes.”

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