JAZZ ON A STRING

Mon 8 Mar 2010 @ 8:00pm

Admission Members $10 Student members $5 Non-members $15

Virtuoso violinist, Ashley Arbuckle, continues to have an extraordinary musical career. A former member of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and an associate concert master, he later moved to England and for ten years worked as co-leader of the London Symphony Orchestra until 1990 when he returned to Perth to take up the position as concertmaster with WASO.

After a health problem that affected his playing and a subsequent operation in 2002, Ashley was unable to lead an orchestra again. However, undeterred he courageously created his unique style of bowing that enabled him to play his instrument (violin) again and returned to his childhood musical passion – jazz.

The Perth Jazz Society is delighted to welcome Ashley and his quartet as part of its 2010 program and the audience can look forward to some elegant and swinging tunes such as ‘Softly in the Morning Sunrise’, Johnny Mandel’s evocative ‘Two for the Road’, ‘All of Me’, ‘Besame Mucho’ and even Wardell Gray’s improvisional bebop solo, ‘Twisted’. Ashley will be joined by the swinging sounds of Richard Price (violin), Rob Hyner (piano), Murray Wilkins (bass) and Barry Cox (drums).