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The Gravity Project, Friday 1 June, 7pm, The Jazzlab, Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2018

It’s a little early, perhaps, but I’m already declaring one concert on the opening night to be a festival highlight. It was The Gravity Project in which Paul Grabowsky on piano and Rob Burke on saxophone joined shakuhachi master Masaki Nakamura, koto virtuoso Kuniko Obina and Tokyo-based Aaron Choulai on laptop and electronics in a world premiere cross-cultural exchange with Tokyo Jazz Festival. The ensemble also featured Niran Dasika on trumpet, Marty Holoubek on bass and James McLean on drums.

I did not manage to take a single photograph of James McLean, hidden away at the back as he was, but here is a gallery of some images from that concert. A review of the festival will be posted later.

All images by Roger Mitchell

Kuniko Obina on koto.

The Gravity Project

Aaron Choulai, Masaki Nakamura and Marty Holoubek

Masaki Nakamura and Marty Holoubek

Kuniko Obina and Aaron Choulai

Kuniko Obina, Aaron Choulai, Masaki Nakamura and Marty Holoubek

Masaki Nakamura and Marty Holoubek

Kuniko Obina, Aaron Choulai, Masaki Nakamura, Marty Holoubek and Rob Burke

Masaki Nakamura, Marty Holoubek, Rob Burke and Niran Dasika

Kuniko Obina, Aaron Choulai and Masaki Nakamura

Aaron Choulai

Paul Grabowsky and Aaron Choulai

Aaron Choulai, Rob Burke and Niran Dasika

Paul Grabowsky