Event
Summer Jazz: Five Bells (Vic), 'Songs in the Key of Al'
- Date: Saturday, 3 February 2018, 8pm
- Venue: The Sound Lounge — Seymour Theatre Centre, Cnr City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale, NSW
- Series: This event is part of the SIMA Summer Jazz 2018 series
- Tickets: Adult: $38 | Concession: $32 | Full-time student: $25 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (02) 9351 7940
Event Details
Drummer, bandleader, composer, poet and autodidact Allan Browne OAM was termed a “spiritual leader” by Bennett’s Lane Jazz Club owner Michael Tortoni, and by pianist Paul Grabowsky, “the single most important jazz musician that Melbourne has ever produced”.
Five Bells (Vic), the remaining four members of the Allan Browne Quintet, are honoured to present 'Songs in the Key of Al': musical responses to the literary works of drummer/poet Allan Vincent Browne OAM.
Over the course of a decade, the Allan Browne Quintet recorded five albums acclaimed by critics and peers, many of which took cues from great literary works such as Rimbaud’s The Drunken Boat and Homer’s Odyssey. In the two years since Al passed away, the remaining four members of his quintet have been developing and performing a new repertoire under the name Five Bells, inspired this time by the vast catalogue of unpublished poems and musings by Al himself.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 9036 6292 or by email to admin@sima.org.au
Featured artists
- Jazz/improvisation by Five Bells
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