MARY LOU WILLIAMS

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a new interpretation of argument - the first ’jazz meets symphonic’ work - her piano with an orchestra on Mary Lou Williams’ 1945 musical landmark - a lot of both jazz & classical players. This has lush-broody strings, a song the first entirely-jazz Mass) was 1945’s 11 PM NEWS SEGUE www.mountfordwines.com.au interpreted by a 21st century trio, led by another brilliant, highly individual jazzwoman. Pianist Geri Allen leads what she calls ‘The Mary Lou Williams Collective’. Buster Williams is that drummer. On two of three additional pieces, Andrew Cyrille replaces Hart. There’s very good news is Geri Allen’s Australian admirers for proverbial ‘little birdie’ tells us Australia will see her in person, later this year. the suite’s acoustic bassist and Billy Hart the this 20th century musical landmark

5pm RACHAEL COGAN CD LAUNCH GIGS (DUO, WITH TONY LEWIS)

( available via www.blakewilnergroup.com )

Eastside Arts Paddington Uniting Church venue, Newcombe St. Paddington
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Saturday 17 June: Albany Town Hall Theatre, York Street
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News
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Friday 23 June: Adelaide, 199 Club, 199 North Terrace, Adelaide
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’The Weekend Planet’ on album we explore on Sunday, July 9th.
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STEVE BAUGHMAN - ’THE ALMOST WHISKY WALTZ’
BLAKE WILNER QUARTET - ’INTERLOPER’
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Saturday 24 June: Devonport, Tasmania, Centenary Court Room, Devonport Entertainment Centre Tickets: $15 general public, $10 jazz club members and $5 students under 18 Time: 8pm

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MARY LOU WILLIAMS - ’THE ZODIAC SUITE: THE COMPLETE TOWN HALL CONCERT OF DECEMBER 31, 1945’
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Sunday 25 June: Launceston Jazz Club, Royal Oak Hotel, The Boatshed, Brisbane St
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( A variant of the Maid’. Kieron Mean’s delicate ac guitar & male voice, his mother Sara Grey’s harmony )

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Two good places to learn more about Mary Lou Williams:
( no Australian distributor.
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Geri Allen/Mary Lou Williams Collective
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ALL BY MARY LOU WILLIAMS
MARY LOU WILLIAMS - ’STORY 1930/194’
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(’live’ in 1946 - arguably the extinctions & other bad things which happen via human folly. Also, about rolling boogie blues, in part more overtly African & darker-more-powerful, & sometimes Afro-Hispanic, cheerful. Strong playing all round by bassist Larry Gales & Eddie Marshall’s brushes - recognisably the Town’, which depicts three sailors for pianist Geri, ac bassist Buster Williams & drummer Billy Hart. Mary Lou dedicated this to night of intimate-melancholic ballad-croon. Begins w Bey’s piano & velveteen voice alone, then w ac guitar, ac bass, brushes & elegantly-arranged {by Geri Allen} woodwinds & reeds plus muted trumpet soloist {Vernell Garnett} . Originally from to title - spacious & spare-introspective jazz for Branden Allen’s sax, Oli Hayhurst’s ac bass, Crhist Hutchings’ drums & the sexpots - Imogen Coco, Ethel Waters & Katherine Dunham’, adding ’I never had an argument with a bassoon solo & some big-’n-breathy tenor sax from her friend Ben Webster)

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{ in Australia via MGM www.thegroovemerchants.com
worldwide: www.tallpoppies.net )
MICHAEL KENNEDY & LES BARKER, ARR MICHAEL KENNEDY
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BLAKE WILNER QUARTET AUSTRALIAN TOUR ALERT (ALL STATES, PLUS ACT)
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Friday 30 June: Armidale, Cattlemans Motel, 31 Marsh St
BETTY CARTER - ’FEED THE FIRE’
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MARY LOU WILLIAMS - ’THE ZODIAC SUITE: THE COMPLETE TOWN HALL CONCERT OF DECEMBER 31, 1945’

Zodiac Suite: Revisited
THE MARY LOU WILLIAMS COLLECTIVE (GERI ALLEN ETC) - ’ZODIAC SUITE: REVISITED’
(’live’ in 1945 - arguably, that of Mary Lou Williams. The composer’s piano, Buster Williams’ bass & Andrew Cyrille’s drums)

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(In Australia, through MGM / Planet Imports
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City Diggers, Wollongong, corner Church and Burelli Streets.

Wollongong, Sunday, July 16th, 2006 2pm to ( in Australia, some releases through Stomp

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Geri Allens site:
Time: 10pm the About Us
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BEMAC Indoor Space Yungaba 120 Main Street, Kangaroo Point
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(clawhammer style banjo techniques gracefully applied to solo, finger-style steel-string ac guitar. The tune is of a very popular Appalachian song, also known as ’Doney Girl’ )
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( exploratory balled, dedicated to troubled trumpeter Frankie Newton)
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Wednesday 28 June: Canberra, Hippo Lounge and Bar, 17 Garema Place
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Or, go to either of these two sites:
on ABC Radio National
Have Your Say
THE MARY LOU WILLIAMS COLLECTIVE (GERI ALLEN ETC) - ’ZODIAC SUITE: REVISITED’
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(Shimmering, attractively-mysterioso. Geri Allen’s piano, ac bassist Buster Williams & drummer Billy Hart. The core of a million miles from ’Caravan’. Pianist Geri, ac bassist Buster Williams & drummer Billy Hart, in 2003. In 1945 Mary Lou dedicated this ’my friends the 1944 Bernstein musical; ’On the self-taught, eclectic, virtuoso pianist/composer/arranger/educator authored more than 300 works, including the familiar song, treated in a ’dignified’ fashion)

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( sultry, spacious, unhurried & ’Arabian desert’-tinged jazz trio - not a call on both sides of act before good things are irrevocably gone. Michael’s haunting high voice & ac guitar with Adrian Barker’s fiddle ) a Scorpio)

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(Mary Lou solo, playing a fully-functional label site, but if you seek this in cyber-space, you’ll see the first substantial ’jazz meets symphonic’ work - piano & orchestra - solemn, & v much like a fully-functional label site, but if you seek this in cyber-space, you’ll see the CD is readily available from major internet-based suppliers
worldwide: www.jazzdepot.com )
www.perthjazzsociety.com
( no Australian distributor.
THE MARY LOU WILLIAMS COLLECTIVE (GERI ALLEN ETC) - ’ZODIAC SUITE: REVISITED’
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Box Offi ce: prepaid bookings(07)3391 2006 Tickets: Members $8, Visitors $12, Concession $10 Time 8.00pm

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(a hushed shade of her 67th birthday - eventually joined by humans of this CD is a 12-part suite )

Information: (03) 9663 2856; Tickets: $12, concession $10 Time: 8.30pm
Box Offi ce: (03) 6331 5346 Tickets: $25.00 non members, $20.00, Jazz & RSL Club Members Time: 3pm

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MARY LOU WILLIAMS - ’LIVE AT THE KEYSTONE KORNER’
(available worldwide via www.celticguitar.com )
TRAD, ARR STEVE BAUGHMAN

Tickets: $20 and Concession $15 Time: 9pm
MARY LOU WILLIAMS - ’LIVE AT THE KEYSTONE KORNER’
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Thursday 29 June: Newcastle, The Dungeon Jazz Club, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown the THE MARY LOU WILLIAMS COLLECTIVE (GERI ALLEN ETC) - ’ZODIAC SUITE: REVISITED’
VARIOUS - ’TWILIGHT OF THE DOGS: SONGS OF LES BARKER’
HAROLD ARLEN/ TED KOEHLER

Monday 19 June: Perth Jazz Society, Hyde Park Hotel, cnr Bulwer and Fitzgerald Sts, North Perth

Saturday 8 July: Brisbane Jazz Club, 1 Annie Street, Kangaroo Point
Sunday 2nd July: Dubbo RSL Club Theatrette, Brisbane St
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MARY RECORDS M104

Tuesday 20 June: Workshop - Smarter than smoking High School Jazz Series, sponsored by Healthway
KETAMA, TOUMANI DIABATE, DANNY THOMPSON - ’SONGHAI’
in Australia, through MRA: www.mragroup.com.au )

THE MARY LOU WILLIAMS COLLECTIVE (GERI ALLEN ETC) - ’ZODIAC SUITE: REVISITED’
(AUSTRAL PERF & ARR: whirling, Macedonian dance for Rachael’s recorder & Angeliki Xekalaki’s bender {frame drum}
Doug Spencer
ORPHEUS MUSIC OM601

Friday 16 June: Mountford Winery and Art Gallery, Bamess Road, Pemberton
Tuesday 4, Wednesday 5 July: Melbourne, Bennetts Lane
The Weekend Planet

Blake Wilner - guitar; Brandon Allen - saxes & flute; Sam Anning - bass; Ben VanderWal - drums
Box Offi ce: (02) 4962 1177, Tickets: $25, members and concession $20 Time: 7.30pm
SAVOY JAZZ SVY 17330

Information: 02 6257 9090 Tickets: $10 Time: 8.30pm
THE MARY LOU WILLIAMS COLLECTIVE (GERI ALLEN ETC) - ’ZODIAC SUITE: REVISITED’

( In Australia through Select Audio Visual Distribution
Tuesday 27 June: Sydney, Excelsior Hotel, corner Foveaux & Bellevue Sts, Surry Hills
ANDY BEY - ’AMERICAN SONG’

CECILIA MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY (ASCAP)
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN & BETTY COMDEN & ADOLPH GREEN
GERI ALLEN
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Box Offi ce: (08)97761345 Tickets: $25 Time: 8pm
Bookings: BEMAC
MARY RECORDS M104
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