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Dizzy’s Jazz Club Make the most of your Festival Bookings through venue experience; save 10% or more for For further information, please visit 03 9428 1233 shows at Hamer Hall, MRC and the ‘Festival Info’ at melbournejazz.com Uptown Jazz Café Malthouse when you book more Bookings through venue than three shows. 03 9416 4546 melbournejazz.com/packages 2 Welcome Martin Foley MP John Stanhope Michael Tortoni Lord Mayor Robert Doyle Minister for Creative Chairman Artistic Director City of Melbourne Industries From iconic arts venues On behalf of the Board, In 2016 we celebrate the Melburnians will be to public gathering I am thrilled to welcome ongoing evolution of jazz. swinging in the streets spaces and intimate you to the 2016 Festival. as the 18th Melbourne clubs, jazz in all its guises This year’s program This year we present International Jazz festival will ring out across our offers an amazing range artists who have been permeates our iconic city, and beyond, during of performances to defining and redefining venues, concert halls the 2016 Melbourne delight those with a deep jazz for generations, and bars. The festival International Jazz Festival. love of jazz, as well as including Gary Bartz, will showcase our city’s entice those who are new Eddie Palmieri, Mulatu thriving jazz scene. In a city recognised as and curious about this Astatke and Tomasz Festivities will kick off one of the live music ever-evolving artform. Stańko. Chief amongst with a free public concert capitals of the world them is living legend at Federation Square, there is no better place Along with headline Wayne Shorter and his providing a preview of to stage Australia’s performances by Quartet, who represent what’s to come over the foremost jazz event. In Australian and the absolute pinnacle in jam-packed ten days. line with its international international artists, virtuosic music-making. moniker, this year’s the Festival also fosters The City of Melbourne program brings artists collaborations between I am especially delighted is proud to once again from Ethiopia, Israel, Italy, artists and showcases to welcome Esperanza support this vibrant Poland and the USA to the creation of new works. Spalding to the Festival festival. This year’s Melbourne to share the for the first time. Along program features talented bill with local jazz talent. Importantly, the Festival with artists such as local and international includes a broad range of Robert Glasper, Marcus acts, with jazz artists The Victorian Government free events and provides Strickland, Snarky Puppy coming from Australia, is proud to support opportunities for emerging and Hiromi, she is the USA/Puerto Rico, Italy, and partner the Festival and aspiring young jazz perfect illustration of Ethiopia, Poland, Japan through Creative Victoria. musicians. the current and future and Israel. In the spirit of jazz, directions of jazz. prepare to be free, to I would like to thank our From the infectious improvise, experiment, fantastic sponsors and We are also proud rhythms of Latin interpret - and above patrons, the dedicated to showcase many Jazz, traditional and all enjoy - the world of Board and Festival outstanding Australian contemporary jazz, there’s jazz at the Melbourne team, and our wonderful artists this year, with new sure to be something to International Jazz Festival. volunteers. works by Kristin Berardi, get your toes tapping at Stu Hunter, Barney McAll this year’s festival. and Joe O’Connor. 3 Modern Masters Esperanza Spalding presents: DATE Friday 3 June at 9:30pm Doors at 8:30pm VENUE Emily’s Forum Melbourne PRICE FULL CONCESSION $89 $81 D+Evolution plus $8.75 Handling Fee per order (not applicable for in-person bookings at The Regent or Princess Theatre box offices) and 1.95% Payment Processing Fee. A Delivery Fee of $4-$15 may also apply. Proudly supported by 4 USA “ Spalding has made her mark not just as a “ Emily is my middle name and I’m using PERSONNEL virtuoso jazz bassist or an effortlessly nimble this fresh persona as my inner navigator. Esperanza Spalding singer but as an exotic hybrid of the two. This project is about going back and bass / vocals The very nature of her talent is exceptional” reclaiming un-cultivated curiosity, and using Matt Stevens — New York Times it as a compass to move forward and expand, guitar says Spalding. Justin Tyson Grammy Award-winning, singer-composer- drums Emily Elbert bassist Esperanza Spalding will make her “ My hope for this group is to create a vocals Australian debut, opening the 2016 Festival world around each song… We will be Corey King with her groundbreaking new project and staging the songs as much as we play vocals persona, Emily’s D+Evolution. them, using characters, video and the Shawan Corso movement of our bodies.” vocals Originally conceived the day before her birthday – during a “sleepless night of full moon inspiration” – Emily’s D+Evolution will perform all-new material that Spalding says “unfolds as live musical vignettes.” 5 Modern Masters DATE Wayne Shorter Sunday 12 June at 7:30pm VENUE Quartet Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall featuring PRICE FULL CONCESSION Premium $149 – Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci A Reserve $129 $119 B Reserve $99 $89 and Brian Blade plus $7.95 Transaction Fee per order (not applicable for in-person bookings) and 2.3% Credit Card fee. A Delivery Fee of up to $5.50 may also apply. Proudly supported by 6 USA “ The most skilful, mutually attuned and For over 50 years composer and saxophonist PERSONNEL fearlessly adventurous small jazz group Wayne Shorter has shattered the limitations Wayne Shorter on the planet… (the quartet) celebrates of jazz with his transcendent musicality. saxophones Danilo Pérez humanity’s hope for harmony” His iconic body of work as a solo artist piano — The Guardian – as a key member of Art Blakey and the John Patitucci Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis’ Second bass Responsible for some of the most revolutionary Great Quintet, and co-founder of fusion Brian Blade jazz of the 20th century, Wayne Shorter takes pioneers Weather Report – has defined drums to the stage with three of the world’s finest and redefined jazz for generations. jazz musicians – Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade – for an evening of unrivalled Compositionally unmatched, winner of virtuosity on the closing night of the a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016 Melbourne International Jazz Festival. musical icon. No matter what superlatives are thrown Shorter’s way, nothing compares to experiencing this icon and his quartet live. 7 Modern Gary Bartz USA / Masters Quartet Australia DATE At the forefront of jazz for nearly six decades, PERSONNEL Friday 3 June at 7:30pm Gary Bartz has helped create jazz as we know Gary Bartz saxophones VENUE it today. vocals Melbourne Recital Centre Barney McAll With a career ranging across post-bop, jazz-funk piano PRICE FULL CONCESSION James King A Reserve $79 $71 and free jazz, Bartz is counted amongst the pantheon of jazz greats, having shared the stage with Art Blakey, bass B Reserve $69 $61 Special Guest plus $5.50-$8 Transaction Fee per order (not Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Pharaoh Sanders, drums applicable for in-person bookings). A Delivery Fee Charles Mingus, Max Roach and many more. of up to $5.50 may also apply. OPENING ACT This performance will be broadcast live Renowned for his legendary, non-stop live performances, Andrea from 8.15pm on ABC Jazz, presented Bartz’s compelling blend of earthiness and elegance Keller’s by Mal Stanley. Tune into digital radio infuses decades of experience into every note, creating Transients I or abc.net.au/jazz. a “furnace of power and passion”. Australia PERSONNEL Melbourne’s very own Barney McAll will be amongst Andrea Keller the stellar quartet joining Bartz on stage to open the piano Julien Wilson 2016 Festival, performing his latest project – Coltrane bass clarinet Rules, Tao of a Music Warrior – honouring the icon with tenor saxophone Proudly supported by classic renditions that would make him proud.