JULIEN WILSON TRIO

Mon 18 May 2009 @ 8:00pm

Admission Members $15 PJS Student Members $8 Concessions $20 Guests $25

Gentle passion fills
Wilson's trio sounds

AUSTRALIAN Jazz Artist of the Year (2008 National Bell Jazz Awards) saxophonist Julien Wilson has been a distinctive voice on the Australian jazz scene for more than a decade and a performer in Europe, Japan, China, Mexico and the USA.
His current trio plays contemporary yet timeless music, creating lyrical, intimate magic. Their gentle yet passionate music has a broad emotional scope and is full of haunting nostalgia. The trio is Julien Wilson, tenor, Stephen Magnusson, nylon string guitar and Stephen Grant, piano accordion.

International
This trio formed in 2004 but Julien and Stephen Magnusson have worked together for fifteen years with a variety of bands. They were together in the Assumptions Trio (with drummer Will Guthrie) and before that co led Snag, a multi national Swiss-based band which released two CD's, and toured Australia and Europe.
The pair's other collaborations included performances and recordings with Festa, Mike Nock, Jim Black, Andy Milne, Josh Roseman, Hugh Masekela, Archie Roach, the Australian Art Orchestra and Barney McAll.

Said to `live on the edge' in other contexts, the trio with Stephen Grant allows them to embrace their more lyrical inclinations. The combination of accordion and nylon string guitar conjures images of South American and European folk music, but their original music is from the jazz tradition.

Recent trio albums While you were sleeping (2006) and Trio Live (2007) are available on Sound Vault Records, CDBaby & iTunes.

Touring
The trio has performed at the Sydney Opera House and Berlin Jazz Festival, festivals in Jakarta, New Zealand, and across Australia. Julien's 2006 Freedman Fellowship financed a three week European tour in 2006.

Other awards include Julien's 1994 National Jazz Award and the 2008 Bell Award for Australian Jazz Artist of the Year. That year Julien also toured Australia as a featured soloist with the Kurt Elling Quartet. (One of their performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was recently shown on ABC TV.) John Shand's new book Jazz: The Australian Accent devotes a chapter to the trio and they were finalists for Best Australian Jazz Ensemble in 2008 and 2004.

For more go to -
www.julienwilson.com