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Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2012 @ Comedy Theatre

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Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2012
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Living treasure of the Boston jazz scene and influential proponents of the free jazz movement, The Fringe celebrates a staggering 40 years on the world circuit with their first Melbourne performance. Renowned for championing the 1950s and ‘60s radical mainstream, in particular that of John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, The Fringe’s ‘chordless’ approach produces genuinely inspired improvisations, never to be repeated, injecting each show with a soaring element of the unexpected. A performance by The Fringe is an epic narrative, offering “dramatic sweep, ebb and flow, whispers, asides, fantastic digressions, high-tension oratory, character development, tender caresses, and a couple of jokes… when a performance ends, you feel you have been transported from where you were to where you are, and you sense the distance that you have traversed” (Fuse Music). The trio’s combined biographies list a veritable roll-call of collaborations, including Freddie Hubbard, Gil Evans, Danilo Pérez, Johnny Hartman, Mose Allison, as well as popular musicians like Tom Jones, Gladys Knight and Aretha Franklin, and even Aerosmith and New Kids On The Block.

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