Between Voices #4

Between Voices #4

Featuring three ensembles, two duos and a quartet, working across the worlds of jazz and improvisation.

Truffle Boils

Peter Farrar - saxophones
Tom Avgenicos - trumpet

Sam Dobson - double bass

Jodie Michael - drums

The Truffle Boils is one of Sydney’s unjustly obscure jazz treasures. The quartet of virtuosi has cohered into an intensely passionate, fiercely swinging unit, mixing some band originals with rarely heard classics from legendary immortals like Marion Brown, Ellington, Mingus and others.

Featuring the alto sax/trumpet magic of Peter Farrar & Tom Avgenicos, and the rhythm/bass engine room of Jodie Michael and Sam Dobson.

Laura Altman & Cass Pyc

Laura Altman - clarinet etc
Cass Pyc - guitar

Laura Altman (Gadigal/Wangal country, Sydney) is a clarinetist, improviser, composer and song-writer whose musical output reaches across exploratory, contemporary classical, and folk-adjacent music scenes. She has a rich solo practice which centres on an intuitive approach to the clarinet, underpinned by a curiosity with resonance and feedback.

Cass Pyc (Dharawal country, Wollongong) is a guitarist whose practice involves utilising preparations to draw complex rhythms, and resonances from the instrument. His improvising experience spans prog metal riffage to avant minimalism.

This is Cass and Laura’s debut performance as a duo.

Sam Gill & Phillippa Murphy-Haste

Sam Gill - saxophones
Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets

Phillippa and Sam have been dipping into duo moments for almost a decade as members of Microfiche, and since 2023 they've been playing as a duo in their own right, including at the celebrated 2023 Inner West Jazz Festival. They recently recorded their first album, with release set for 2027.

Their music casts a wide stylistic net, in freely improvised sets that draw on their shared love of jazz, folk music, contemporary chamber music and meditative minimalism. Expect the stage to be strewn with woodwind instruments large and small.

Doors: 7:00pm
Music: 7:30pm
Tickets: $25/$15

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