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Spectra Jazz Orchestra
12:00pm after MC welcome by Teik-Kim Pok
Spectra Jazz Orchestra (formerly known as The Young Women’s Jazz Orchestra) is a dynamic large ensemble for talented young women and gender diverse musicians aged 15-23 interested in pursuing jazz, honing their improvisation skills and looking for experience playing in a large ensemble.
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Freyja Garbett's 'Music from the Waves'
1:00pm
'Music from the Waves', is a multi-movement suite combining electro-acoustic sonic palettes to encapsulate and audiate the synthesis between Freyja Garbett's two great loves; music and surfing. The physical, mental and emotional link between musical improvisation and surfing are concepts that have long been pondered by musicians and lovers of waves. Many surfers have drawn a philosophical connection between these disciplines. This is the first step in Freyja's journey in creating music that encapsulates and audiates the synthesis between music and surfing. Each performance is fresh and invigorating. Please join them, as they “surf the changes”.
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Performing Brazil
2:00pm
Performing Brazil is the pioneer band to play Brazilian Jazz in Sydney since 1997. t’s a Brazilian musical genre that - like jazz - began to take shape in the late 1800s, precursor to the samba and bossa nova, a rich and playful genre of music which incorporates Afro-Brazilian rhythms. They also play the traditional Samba, Batucada and Samba Funk/Soul which emerged from the dance parties with the famous music of Jorge Benjor.
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Mister Ott
3:00pm
A glorious celebration of afro-funk that crosses dub, hip-hop and Ethiopian jazz, Mister Ott are a crowd pleasing six piece based out of Sydney Australia. Mister Ott toured extensively in 2022 hitting 17 different venues and dancehalls throughout NSW with the support of SIMA and the RISE fund, releasing their critically acclaimed third album In The Flow (Earshift Records, 2021). Merging mesmerising eastern sounds, tight jazz funk, hypnotic grooves with lyrical horn lines and high calibre exhilarating solos, Mister Ott’s lush blend of exotic sounds is precisely the tonic to shake off the past two years.
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Coast
4:00pm
Drummer and composer for COAST Paul Derricott has spent the years sharing stages with The Beautiful Girls, All Our Exes Live in Texas, Georgia Mooney, and international artists Charenee Wade, Vivian Sessoms and Aloe Blacc – their influence being critical to the writing process. Moment by moment, the band successfully toy with new scales, weeping brass-sections and spacious guitars while tying it off with snap-jazz drum lines – resulting in a song that represents a tactful reimagining of Coast’s compositions. Coast brings to life some of Australia’s finest, most intricately textured progressive jazz.
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Obba Layé
5:00pm
Obba Layé is an Afro-Cuban Jazz Funk ensemble led by Cuban multi-instrumentalist and composer Richard Ortega with Juan Mulet (drumset), Sergio Mulet (African percussion), Daniel Villarreal (bass guitar) and Keyna Wilkins (flute) with various special guests. An intoxicating mix of Ortega's original works, infusing the African ritual drumming with latin jazz, and tunes direct from the streets of Havana.
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