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 Sandy Evans lives in Curl Curl, a beautiful beachside suburb of Sydney, Australia, not far from where she was born in 1960. Her twin passions of composing and improvising have been with her since her mother introduced her to the piano as a very young child. She studied classical flute, before moving on to the saxophone as a teenager when her interest in jazz and improvised music blossomed. Her first gigs were in hotels in Singapore where she completed high school. Her main instruments today are tenor and soprano saxophone. Sandy is a graduate of the Jazz Studies Course at the NSW Conservatorium and has also studied in New York, Germany, Hungary and the UK with the assistance of an Australia Council study grant.
As well as leading The Sandy Evans Trio, Sandy is co-leader of the internationally acclaimed Clarion Fracture Zone and of the innovative trio “Waratah” (with koto and percussion). Other groups she currently works with are Ten Part Invention, The catholics, austraLYSIS, the Australian Art Orchestra(AAO) the Kristen Cornwell Quintet and the Bronson/Robson/Evans Quintet. Recordings of most of these groups are available through Rufus Records. They can often be heard live at The Side On Cafe in Sydney. She has played with many of the most important groups in Australian jazz since the early 1980s including the KMA Orchestra, Great White Noise, the Bernie McGann Trio, the Bruce Cale Orchestra, the Gai Bryant Quartet, MARA!, Jeremy Sawkins and Judy Bailey. Her group Women and Children First is remembered as a ground breaking group from the 1980s in Australia. Her composition "Testimony" a music theatre work about the life and music of Charlie Parker with poetry by the American poet Yusef Komunyakaa, originally commissioned for radio by the ABC, was premiered at the Sydney Opera House by the AAO in Jan 2002 to great public and critical acclaim. In 2000 Sandy performed at the opening ceremony of the Paralympics and was featured as a soloist on the roof of the Sydney Opera House at dawn of the new millenium playing Ross Edward’s Dawn Mantras to a worldwide television audience. She performs in the award winning show, The Theft of Sita which has toured in America and Europe. In 1996 she was one of ten Australian artists to receive a Young Australian Creative Fellowship. Other awards include the APRA Award for Jazz Composition of the Year in 1995 for her suite "What This Love Can Do", Mo Award for Jazz Performer of the Year in 1996 and for Female Jazz Performer of the Year in 1993 and three ARIA Awards. She has appeared as a guest soloist with visiting American artists Han Bennink, Horace Tapscott, Odean Pope, Andrew Hill, Mark Helias and Andrew Cyrille; and pianists Nikki Iles (UK) and Indra Lesmana (Indonesia). She has participated in collaborations with The AAO with Palle Mikelborg and Karaikudi R. Mani, the South Indian percussion virtuoso. While living in Scotland in 1987, she played with the saxophone quartet SAXTC and with the rhythm and blues band Tam White and The Dexters. Sandy has experimented with improvising with musicians outside the jazz tradition including the Seymour Group, Synergy, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Martenitsa Choir (Bulgarian choir). She has toured extensively in Australia, Europe, Canada and Asia playing at many of the major jazz festivals and clubs. Some highlights have been -the North Sea Jazz Festival, WOMAD, the Berlin Jazzfest, the Brecon Festival, the Outside In Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Quebec, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Saskatoon jazz festivals, the Knitting Factory (NY), the Wangarratta Jazz Festival, the Manly Jazz Festival, Sydney and Melbourne Jazz Festivals, the Brisbane Biennial, the Adelaide Festival, Jazz Yatra (India), the Sidmouth Folk Festival and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. She has also toured Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Germany, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea and Hong Kong. Many of these tours have received assistance from the Australia Council. She has been featured in several television programs for the ABC and Scottish television as well as radio broadcasts for the ABC, BBC, WDR (Germany) and local radio stations in Australia. She appears in the award winning documentary on modern jazz in Australia "Beyond El Rocco" and the film "Dr Jazz" which looks at the jazz scene in Sydney in the 1990s. Sandy is committed to encouraging more women into her profession and every year is running an improvisation course for young women in Sydney, through the Sydney Improvised Music Association. (photo by Bridget Elliot) |
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tracks: Not In The Mood - Snake Gully - Peace on Earth - Free Play - The Secret Garden - Pole Position - Seed of Delight - The Bridge of Eternal Youth - Korean Chant - Och Aye The Groove - Forgotten Dream - Mac Surfer (coverphoto by Paul McNamara) |
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in the mood.mp3 (1,2 MB) peace on earth.mp3 (1,4 MB) |
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Sandy Evans Trio |
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SANDY EVANS TRIO "not in the mood" (NEW 3107.2)
Sandy Evans - Tenor and Soprano Saxophone; Brendan Clarke - Bass; Toby Hall -Drums|
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