Australian jazz quartet biography books

The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press, its first edition dated 1987.

Although classically trained on the clarinet and saxophones, his main focus as a performer has been in jazz and popular music, including eight years performing and composing with Kate Ceberano (including a top-ten Australian hit) and fifteen years with ARIA award-winning band The Black Sorrows. Recently, Rob released a duet album with Tony Gould titled Here (Jazzhead 2009), the third in a series of such collaborations and a quartet album Live at Bennetts Lane – Jazzhead (2011).

Influenced early by Art Tatum and Nat King Cole, Rohde became absorbed with the George Russell Lydian Concept which has flavored his playing ever since. . Beautifully recorded and presented. 62 . On later albums, his work takes on the delicate, diaphanous, poetic feel that characterizes the music of Frederic Delius. It is a hardcover book, bound uniformly with The Oxford Companion to English Literature but with a distinctive cover.

It was written and edited by Professor A.

J. B. "Bruce" Johnson, an academic, prolific author and jazz trumpeter from New South Wales, with some specialist articles by guest contributors.

Review

"Johnson is an academic, and the first 76 pages provide a high-flown essay on "The Evolution of the Concept of Jazz in Australia" .

He became interested in music at an early age and began playing the guitar at the age of 12. It is no accident that Rohde listens to 20th century classical music as often as he can find it. David Watson's Music in the Vines/Sonoma Jazz label has tried to help cure this unfortunate oversight by releasing two of them on that label. Two years later James was gigging in the working band of renowned clarinetist/saxophonist Andrew Firth with whom he stayed until 1994.

After working with the cream of Adelaide’s jazz and rock musicians James relocated to Sydney in the summer of 1996, where he quickly became one of the most in-demand guitarists in the country.

He has played and/or recorded with:

Vince Jones, James Morrison, Dale Barlow, Mike Nock, Renee Geyer, Bernie McGann, Don Burrows, Mark Isaacs, Sean Wayland, Steve Hunter and Scott Tinkler as well as international artists Chad Wackerman, Bill Stewart, Vinnie Colaiuta, Adam Nussbaum, Jay Anderson, Steve Tavaglione, Maria Schneider, Tim Ries, Tony Moncao, Donny McCaslin, Bob Sheppard, Matt Pendman and Jochen Rueckert.

James has recorded 4 CD’s under his own name.

Rob has performed on and contributed compositions to over 200 CDs by groups ranging from pop acts such as John Farnham, Ice House, Real Life, Vika and Linda Bull, to contemporary jazz projects with leading artists including Tony Gould, Tony Floyd, Doug De Vries, Slava Gregorian, Geoff Hughes, Nick Haywood, Stephen Magnusson, Don Burrows,  Tony Floyd and Mike Nock.

Rob has performed /recorded with many international jazz artists including Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Nasheet Waits, Tom Rainey, Enrico Rava Dave Douglas, George Lewis, Red Rodney, John Abercrombie, Paul McCandless (Origon), George Garzone, Richie Barshay, Johannes Weidenmueller (USA), Lula Galvao, Roberta Valente, Hermeto Pascoal (Brazil), Mirko Guerrini, Debasis Chakroborty (India) and Qmars Piraglu (Iran)

Rob has also toured extensively through Asia, Europe, the United States and locally, including as leader of his own projects.

Rohde has seven albums as a leader of his own groups. There are moments where you will get chills down your back’ 4.5* – The Age Green Guide.