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Bob Bertles - baritone sax

TEN PART INVENTION (SYDNEY) - ** Note Early Start - Doors open 5:00pm **

Mon 27 Sep 2010 @ 6:00pm

Admission Members $15 Student members $12 Non-Members $22

'The Rolls Royce of Australian Jazz’, so said the Sydney Morning Herald. Founded in 1986 the members of Ten Part Invention constitute a substantial part of Australian modern jazz history and continue to create music that is unique, committed, and visionary.

John Pochée - Drums/Leader
Steve Arié - Double bass
Paul McNamara - Piano
Miroslav Bukovsky - Trumpet/flugel
Warwick Alder - Trumpet
James Greening - Trombone
Matthew Ottignon - Alto
Sandy Evans - Tenor/sop
Paul Cutlan - Tenor/sop
Bob Bertles - Baritone

When an Australian band of ten pieces has played together for 25 years, presenting a repertoire comprised entirely of local compositions, with only two permanent changes of personnel …it must be viewed as a phenomenon. That it can still fill a venue with excitement and colour, and infect audiences of remarkable age diversity with the feeling that they are hearing something vivid and unique, is to be celebrated. - John Clare

TPI are touring with the assistance of the Australia Council for the Arts

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