The Jazzlab Dec 9

STRANGE ATTRACTORS: JESS GREEN (SYD) AND DYLAN VAN DER SCHYFF album launch +

ANDREA KELLER’S TRANSIENTS VOLS. 3 & 4 ALBUM LAUNCH

double bill evening show 7.30pm

set 1 Strange Attractors set 2 Transients

The Jazzlab Monday Dec 9 Doors 7pm Show 7.30pm

Tickets HERE $30/$20 Bookings essential

Strange Attractors: Jess Green (Syd) and Dylan van der Schyff

Jess Green - guitar

Dylan van der Schyff – drums and percussion

Guitarist Jess Green and Drummer Dylan van der Schyff perform spontaneously improvised music, real-time conversations in sound and emotion, evoking free jazz, free improvisation, ambient and drone music, and, occasionally, shades of 90’s grunge rock. The music is exuberant and complex – at times cinematic, at times cheeky and raucous.
 
 Jess Green (AKA Pheno) is an Australian guitarist, and vocalist. In her twenty-year career she has established herself as a genre-defying performer and composer. Jess has performed with jazz and blues luminaries including, The Catholics, Jim Conway, and Renee Geyer, as well as contemporary artists Laura Jean and Katie Noonan. She has supported touring international pop icons including Joan as Policewoman (US) and The New Pornographers (CAN). Jess collaborates as an improviser across jazz, new music and contemporary classical, and has performed with Bree van Reyk, Nick Wales, and Ensemble Offspring.

Drummer Dylan van der Schyff was born in South Africa, grew up in Canada, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia. Over his thirty-year career he has performed and recorded with a wide range of well-known figures in the fields of improvised and experimental music including Joelle Léandre, George Lewis, John Butcher, Dave Douglas, John Zorn, Roscoe Mitchell, Phil Minton, Marilyn Crispell, Butch Morris, Nicole Mitchell, and Kris Davis among many others. 

Andrea Keller’s Transients Vol 3&4 CD launch

Angela Davis – saxophone

Sam Anning – bass

Kyrie Anderson – drum set

Andrea Keller - piano

Andrea Keller’s Transients celebrate the launch of Transients Volume 3: For Sorrow and Transients Volume 4: For Joy! Featuring Angela Davis (saxophone), Sam Anning (bass), Kyrie Anderson (drums), and Andrea Keller (piano), the group perform selections from the new releases. Andrea Keller began Transients in January 2016, following the passing of treasured mentor Allan Browne. The ever-evolving series of trios (+ additions), celebrate and nurture collaborative music making and improvisation, and bring together some of Australia’s most unique and innovative voices in jazz.

Following the success of Transients Volume 1 & 2, both released in 2019 (Vol 1 awarded the 2019 Music Victoria Award for Best Jazz Album and nominated for an ARIA for Best Jazz Album 2019), the music for Transients Volume 3 & 4 was recorded over two days in January 2024 at Head Gap Studio, Preston. Showcasing an extensive pool of creative Melbourne musicians, Transients Volume 3 & 4 feature: Jenny Barnes – voice, Angela Davis – saxophone, Niran Dasika – trumpet, Theo Carbo – guitar, Stephen Magnusson – guitar, Andrea Keller – piano, Sam Anning – bass, Ben Vanderwal – drums, Kyrie Anderson – drums, and Joe Talia – drums.

Andrea Keller is an Australian pianist, composer and improviser dedicated to the performance, creation and nurturing of contemporary jazz and improvised music. Over the past two-decades she has devised and produced a large and varied body of work that celebrates the wealth and diversity of Australian musicians. With a propensity for the new, Andrea has devised and led over twenty projects centred on her original works and highly individual reworkings of a diverse list of 20th century artists from across the globe. In addition to her own projects, she contributes to numerous collaborations and ensembles within the jazz tradition and has worked beyond the jazz idiom with the likes of The Song Company, The Black Arm Band, Lano & Woodley, and Eddie Perfect. Andrea has received multiple commissions to create new work for musicians in varying genres and has been awarded the Merlyn Myer Composing Women’s Commission (2017), and the Melbourne Prize for Music Emerging Composer Award (2019). Highly lauded for her music, Andrea has received numerous awards over her career. In 2022 she received the Art Music Luminary (Victoria) Award and has previously been recognised with three ARIA awards, multiple Australian Jazz Bell awards, and more. A champion of Australian creative music and a nurturer of emerging musicians, Andrea runs the educational program Gender Defying Jazz and is Head of Jazz & Improvisation at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne

https://www.andreakellermusician.com/