Andrea Keller on piano at the 2015 Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival
PREVIEW
Album launch, Uptown Jazz Cafe, Sunday, July 3 at 8pm
Our perpetually smiling (currently caretaker) Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has exhorted us to help make this country “agile”, by which I have taken him to mean that we must be readily adaptable to all sorts of changes … such as “no cuts” meaning lots of cuts, or copper wire NBN rather than fibre, or jobs’n’growth being without penalty rates or superannuation.
But you may never heard more agile saxophone than Tim Wilson‘s on the new album, Consider This, that he and Andrea Keller will launch tonight at Uptown, presented by the Melbourne Jazz Co-op. And you may never have a more satisfying union (that’s to upset Malcolm) than this unity of piano with reeds.
Recorded live at Bennetts Lane in 2015, it features seven original compositions, captured in all their raw beauty. Here’s some video footage from the night of the recording.
Consider This is available through Bandcamp.
Bassist Chris Hale will join the duo for the second set.
Keller and Wilson say their project was “conceived in 2007 out of a mutual respect and love for open, interactive music making, and a desire to create and explore original compositions and improvisations in an intimate duo format”.
Tim Wilson
These musicians met when they were studying at Victorian College of the Arts and have been performing together for over 20 years in ensembles such as the Paul Williamson Sextet and the Bennetts Lane Big Band.
Keller is a three-time Aria Award winner, recipient of the Freedman Fellowship and also the Don Banks Fellowship. Wilson was a finalist in the 2006 World Saxophone Competition (held at the BBC Jazz Festival in London), the 2009 National Jazz Awards, and runner up in the 2013 Taichung Saxophone Competition.
Only a limited number of albums will be pressed because the musicians are focusing on releasing the recording digitally.
ROGER MITCHELL
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