PROGRAMME JAZZ IMPROVISATION

STEVE SEDERGREEN Red Jumper

MAL SEDERGREEN Mountian Man

JUAN TIZOL Perdido

NAT ADDERLEY Work Song

JAZZ ORCHESTRA

LACHLAN DAVISON Luckie Lochie

GORDON GOODWIN Count Bubba

LACHAN DAVIDSON Clouds on Blue

LACHLAN DAVIDSON Sunshower

MUSICIANS OF JAZZ IMPROVISATION

ALTO SAXOPHONE Zachary Beaumont Emily Bell Hugh Collins Spencer Kelsey Alexandra Kostas Sascha Legge Shahla Paynter Marlon Shaw Alodie Thomson BASS GUITAR Rosalie Tran CLARINET Samira Efron Amy Hawking

DRUM KIT Oscar Edwards PIANO Kai Yin Goh David Kocharyan Lincoln Lee Griffin Legge Irin Sa TENOR SAXOPHONE Ellen Burns Enoch Christiansen Ryan Wong TENOR TROMBONE Caleb Elbourne

Arjen Goessens Zuben Khan Sophie McLaren TRUMPET Tate Katoa Oliver Matthews Nicholas O'Conor Baden Swoboda Nemo Yao

MUSICIANS OF JAZZ ORCHESTRA

ALTO SAXOPHONE Cedar Christensen-Elliott Lorne Hayes Chen BARITONE SAXOPHONE Emily Matthews BASS TROMBONE George Hamilton

DOUBLE BASS Harrison Singer DRUM KIT Brent Fisher PIANO Madeleine Davies TENOR SAXOPHONE Lucas Gordon Hamish McLean Davies

TENOR TROMBONE Nicholas Lew Giorgia Smith TRUMPET Dominic Burt Philip Edselius Ned Tozer Harry Vreugdenburg Hugo Wilson

ABOUT THE CONDUCTORS

LACHLAN DAVIDSON Taking up the Alto Saxophone aged 12, Lachlan went on to graduate with distinction from The Victorian College of the Arts in 1983. Performing solos five times with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, lead Alto sax with The Australian art Orchestra and the Daryl Mckenzie Jazz Orchestra and many T.V. (Dancing with the stars/Australia-first 15 seasons) and concert performances (Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, John Farnham, George Benson) also on many C.D’s and films. He released his first album as bandleader/composer in 1999 unLokked, “A hot night in Burwood” and has released three albums as bandleader in 2020, with another as co-leader due in 2021. He currently teaches at Caulfield Grammar School in the jazz department and as resident composer/arranger and has direct the senior stageband for 12 years. He also teaches Saxophone and composition at Monash University and directs The Monash University Saxophone bigband (Saxband). He is a former head of Jazz at Presbyterian Ladies college where he directed the stage band for 18 years. He was chief arranger for the original “Dancing with the Stars” and orchestrates for Big-bands and Orchestras etc. (MSO, SSO, film, T.V. and many schools). His published compositions include music for big-band, solo Saxophone and other woodwinds, Saxophone quartet and songs. He has also been commissioned to compose for orchestra and various mixed ensembles plus several musicals. Lachlan loves creating, teaching and performing music. Lachlan is also a former Mini Quest Catamaran Champion and can juggle four balls at once. MAL SEDERGREEN Mal is an accomplished and highly regarded jazz saxophonist with international and Australian performances at all major national festivals and venues. He has performed with artists including James Morrison, Don Burrows, Bob Sedergreen, Brian Brown, Ted Vining, Bernie McGann, Allan Browne and supported international artists including Branford Marsalis, BB King, Ray Charles, Phillip Morris Superband, David Sanborn, Nat Adderley and McCoy Tyner. He has twice toured nationally with blues legend Jimmy Witherspoon. As Co-leader of the contemporary jazz band ‘Mistaken Identity’, he is the principal composer of music performed by the band. He has recorded and released four highly acclaimed albums with the CD “Just Perfect” receiving a nomination in the Jazz category of the APRA Awards (1994). With extensive experience specialising in jazz, blues and improvisation, Mal currently teaches at Korowa Anglican Girls’ School (Saxophone Teacher and co-Director of Stage Band), Lauriston Girls’ School (Saxophone Teacher and Contemporary Ensemble Teacher) and Ringwood Secondary College (Music Teacher and co-Director of Intermediate and Senior Stage Bands). STEVE SEDERGREEN A talented and charismatic jazz pianist, improviser and educator, Steve Sedergreen has made a vital and indelible imprint on the Melbourne jazz scene for over 30 years.

He possesses an exceptional improvisational sensibility that is true to the spirit of jazz. Steve has performed with both Australian and internationally renowned artists as well as leading his own bands. His latest album, Points in Time, released late 2012, is a 12-song collection of original material, written at various points in his stellar career, all re-worked and re-imagined. Steve has played at most local (Victorian) festivals the last few years; from Stonnington Jazz 2015 & 2018, Eltham Festival 2015, Castlemaine State Festival 2015, White Night 2016 and this year’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival. In addition to his success as a performer and recording artist, Steve has acted as a mentor and teacher to countless young jazz musicians who have gone on to enjoy great success including members of The Cat Empire, Paris Wells, Axle Whitehead and many more. He released his first book Start Playing Jazz Piano Now! in 2011, and has just printed the 2nd edition.

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