Past Event

Big Arse Saturday

24th Apr 2010

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Presenter: Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival
Website: http://melbournejazzfringe.com/
Event Duration: 360 minutes

The Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival brings its traditional Big Arse event to Bella Union in 2010 and invites to kick back to artists including BoB, Ensemble Max, Hinterland, National Jazz Award winner Zac Hurren (Brisbane) with his trio, James Annesley Quartet and many more.

Tickets are limited, so BOOK NOW for an afternoon and evening of wonderful strangeness, deep groove, dissonance, melody, cacophony and the beauty of song.

James Annesley Quartet: James Annesley - Saxophone, Hugh Stuckey - Guitar, Sam Zerna - Double Bass, Hugh Harvey - Drums

The music from this ensemble is a unique style of contemporary jazz which draws influence from serene, earthy folk music as well hard hitting rock. James’s original compositions are rich in dynamic contrast and varying timbral textures, with plenty of room for adventurous, freewheeling improvisations.

Ensemble Max: Rob Vincs, Dan Arnott, Tim Dunlop, Cat Canteri, Marcus Villalta, Benjamin Phipps, Tom Muratore, Louis Gill, Tom Stewart-Toner, Georgie Darvidis, Jon Smeathers, Liam Brown, Jordan Scotney, Marty Hicks, Alejandro Abapo, Harley Goodsell.

Ensemble Max weaves a community of improvisers that bring their diversity of musical language, instruments and experience to the celebration of the musical present where texture and intensity light the sonorized landscape. Led by one of Australia’s foremost musical thinkers Rob Vincs, Ensemble Max has been a fertile play-ground for many of Australia’s finest musicians to develop their musical imagination and intuition.

Zac Hurren Trio: Zac Hurren - Tenor Saxophone, Leigh Barker - Bass, Hugh Harvey - Drums.

The recipient of 2009's prestigious National Jazz Award, Zac Hurren is "one of the foremost young saxophonists around the Australian scene today." - Dale Barlow Hurren's concept is integrally interactive and alertly intuitive, resulting in music of exuberant expression and fiery inspiration.  With a musical intensity considered reminiscent of the great Australian saxophonist Mark Simmonds, Hurren's trio is not to be missed.

Hinterland: Georgie Darvidis – Vocals, Freya Schack-Arnott – Cello, Jonathan Heilbron – Piano, James Gilligan – Contrabass Guitar.

Hinterland is a new ensemble founded as a vehicle for original composition intent on exploring the possibilities of blending classical aesthetics with contemporary music styles and forms. Coherency in texture and colour is a main hub for the group; presenting carefully arranged music with an underlying improvisational focus: molding with each other, the compositions and their audience.

BoB- Ben Hauptmann - Guitar, Gian Slater - Vox, Chris Hale - Bass, Julian Banks - Sax, Damien Slingsby - Keys, Andy Keegan - Drums Ben Hauptmann is nationally recognized jazz guitarist finishing 2nd in the National Jazz Awards at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz 07’.

BoB is a new collaboration between Ben and Chris Hale. Joined by Gian Slater, Julian Banks, Andy Keegan and Damien Slingsby.

BoB creates music that is anything but conventional, beautifully playful and limitless in its appeal… BoB's music is inspired by all the good things in life, table tennis, swimming pools, drop "d" tuning eTc etc... When listening to BoB, one gets transported to another place which is good for those who can't afford to go on holiday. Big Arse Sat, will be one to remember, so come down and spend some quality time with Bob.Bob is short for Robert.

Dan West with Video Artist Eugenia Lim:
Instrumentalist and electronic artist Dan West facilitates OUTPOST - a monthly a/v jam session for laptop artists. He also produces and performs with Barney McAll’s Sylent Running ensemble. For the Jazz Fringe, Dan will utilize a laptop, MPC sampler and various analog devices processed live to create a real time audio/video performance with long time collaborator, video artist Eugenia Lim.