ACTION IN ACTON #6: CANCELLED - APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE
Due to unforseen circumstances and conflicting events in the local music community, unfortunately the Action in Acton Concert #6: As Famous as the Moon (scheduled for 15 November 2011), has been cancelled. Thank you to all of the regular attendees for their support throughout the year - their attendence made this series possible, and their participation has been undoubtedly and immensely valued.  During 2011 I'm colaborating with Australian jazz legend Miroslav Bukovsky and the Gods Cafe, Acton ACT, to present a new jazz concert series called Action in Acton, which focuses on jazz and jazz artists who come out of Canberra. The series features the finest of well estabished jazz ensembles from the reigon, as well as jazz artists who have since moved on into other domains. Note: this series will work in tandem with the already established, highly successful and continuing Jazz @ The Gods Cafe concert series passionately produced by Geoff Page. CONCERT #5 - MIKE PRICE QUARTET Feat. WAYNE KELLY
Mike Price: Guitar Wayne Kelly: Keyboard James Luke: Bass Colin Hoorweg: Drums & Cymbals 18 October 2011 8pm @ The Gods Cafe & Bar ANU Union Court Acton 0200 Light meals available from 6:30pm - 8pm $15 - Full $10 - Concession (ticket prices show only) Bookings Essential!!! Phone: 6248 5538 Email: thegodscafe@gmail.com Mike Price, guitarist and Head of Jazz Studies at the ANU, introduces his new quartet featuring the prodigious talents of pianist Wayne Kelly. Mike is well known to Australian audiences though his gigs with Brendan Clarke, James Hauptman, Darryl Pratt, Craig Scott, Julian Lee, Jonathan Zwartz and Carl Dewhurst as well as his work in Canberra with the Mike Price Trio. His USA performance credits include gigs with Nat Reeves, Randy Johnston, Dave Santoro and Jeff Fuller.
Rounding out the quartet is ANU faculty members Colin Hoorweg on drums and James Luke on bass. CONCERT #4 - RAFAEL JERJEN CONCEPT  Rafael Jerjen: Double Bass/Electic Bass John Mackey: Saxophone Paul Dal Broi: Piano Mark Sutton: Drums & Cymbals 20 September 2011 8pm @ The Gods Cafe & Bar ANU Union Court Acton 0200 Light meals available from 6:30pm - 8pm $15 - Full $10 - Concession (ticket prices show only) Bookings Essential!!! Phone: 6248 5538 Email: thegodscafe@gmail.com Rafael Jerjen is one of Australia's leading "up and coming" bassists and composers. Rafael has led many bands under his own name and performed and many venues around the country. He has shared the stage with internationally acclaimed artists Dave samuels, Jeff Peterson, Katie Noonan, as well as fellow Australian artists Kristin Berardi, Matt McMahon and many more. Rafael recently released his second album Chrysanthemum as part of the "Capital Jazz Project" international jazz festival. The album features some of Australia's more highly acclaimed jazz musicians including Sandy Evans, James Greening, Miroslav Bukovsky, Eric Ajaye, Niels Rosendahl, Paul Dal Broi and Mark Sutton. Rafael's compositions are exceptionally diverse and draw from a large array of different musical influences including Ahmad Jamal, Pat Metheny, Miroslav Vitous, Chick Corea, John Patitucci, Tord Gustavsen and many more, The music is lyrically string and harmonically broad, yet maintains delicate and subtle textures as it explores various emotions through the means of masterful improvisation. (Action in Acton Concert #5: Mike Price Quartet - 18 Oct 2011)
CONCERT #3 - UTOPIA COLLECTIVE  21 June 2011 Original Jazz/Funk/Groove Repertiore 8pm @ The Gods Cafe & Bar Greg Stott: Guitar John Mackey: Saxophone Wayne Kelly: Keyboard Jason Varlet: Bass Mark Sutton: Drums Light meals available from 6:30pm - 8pm $15 - Full $10 - Concession (ticket prices show only) Bookings Essential!!! Phone: 6248 5538 Email: thegodscafe@gmail.com CONCERT #2 - BEN MARSTON GROUP 8pm 19 APRIL 2011 Ben Marston Ben grew up in a musical family and began playing music at an early age. He started playing the trumpet at the age of nine in the school brass band and continued playing in high school. When he was thirteen his musical world changed forever when his father gave him a Miles Davis CD and from that moment he followed his passion for music. Marston began his first serious study of Jazz in year 12 when he was accepted into the ANU Jazz Prep Course and he continued this study after school where he completed a Honours degree in Jazz performance in 2002. During this time Ben’s ideas on music began to form and in 2003, after a trip through Africa, he began to write extensively. This led to him completing a Masters in Music in 2005 and, most importantly forming the 12 Tone Family, a group that would go on to record “Reconnaissance”. In 2008 and 2009 Ben undertook a series of concerts at The Street Theatre that featured original music for both large and small ensembles and in 2009 these ensembles went into the studio to record. The concert series proved to be a huge success and introduced electronic effects into the improvisation process a sound that is now an important part of his music. Ben Marston - Trumpet Lachlan Coventry - Guitar James Luke - Bass Chris Thwaite - Drums Light meals available from 6:30pm - 8pm $15 - Full $10 - Concession (ticket prices show only) Bookings Essential!!! Phone: 6248 5538 Email: thegodscafe@gmail.com CONCERT #1 - LAUNCH: BUKOVSKY/ROSENDAHL QUINTET Miroslav Bukovsky - Trumpet Born in Czechoslovakia, Bukovsky grew up listening to jazz on illegal 'Voice of America' late-night broadcasts. Originally classically trained, he joined various big bands while still living in Czechoslovakia. When the Soviet army invaded his homeland in 1968, Bukovsky, who was then on tour, decided not to return. He migrated to Australia and soon found a place for himself in the Sydney jazz scene. Despite then having only a basic grasp of English, Bukovsky met a number of musicians and quickly made a name for himself jamming with them. It wasn't long before he was playing in such groups as the Daly-Wilson Big Band and Bob Bertle's Moontrane. Bukovsky co-founded Ten Part Invention with drummer John Pochee and pianist Roger Frampton in 1986, and has been active as a composer for this band. He has also composed for his other bands, including Major Minority, which he formed in 1987, and Wanderlust, formed in 1991. Wanderlust then went on to win the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album of 1994 with their 1993 self-titled first release, Wanderlust (Rufus Records/Universal). Due in part no doubt to his classical training, Bukovsky has great technical control of the instrument. However, his initial focus for students is predominantly on the sound and tone produced. He has been teaching at a university level since the mid-seventies, first at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and currently at the Canberra School of Music. Influenced by a wide variety of musicians including Louis Armstrong, Freddie Hubbard, Blue Mitchell, Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, Bukovsky incorporates aspects from all jazz styles into his playing. He feels that jazz is an ever-changing fusion of influences, and his successful experiments with the music highlight the truth of this belief. Niels Rosendahl - Saxophone
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