Australia's foremost saxophone quartet, Continuum Sax
perform a unique repertoire of composed and improvised
works.
Continuum Sax has collaborated with MATCH Percussion, sound
artist Gail Priest, didgeridoo player Mick Davison, and
jazz experimentalists the Freedivers. In 2008, they
participated in the Restrung Festival at the Brisbane
Powerhouse as part of the Six Pack Symphony.
Continuum Sax has commissioned or inspired works from
composers including Stuart Greenbaum, Paul Stanhope, Jane
Stanley, and Barry Cockcroft.
Continuum Sax has released two CDs, CONTINUUM (2001) and
ICON (2005). They have just completed a recording project
for reedmusic.com that will result in a
wide range of educational resources for Australian
saxophone quartet music.
VIEW PHOTOS of Continuum
Sax in the recording studio.
Continuum Sax are:
Margery Smith
James Nightingale
Martin Kay
Jarrod Whitbourn
In Review:
‘This
is a group that plays as one - a really beautiful,
integrated sonority…’ – From Review
of Continuum CD, 24 Hours Magazine (Oct 2002).
'Continuum Sax do improvisation very well, as in
Margery Smith's fond treatment of Sandy Evans's DPM.
However, the ensemble is equally impressive when playing
scored works, thus affording Barry Cockcroft's quartet p a
powerful...advocacy and making Perry Goldstein's Motherless
Child Variations, with its telling references to Gershwin's
Porgy and Bess, so memorable.' - from review, 'Deft at
melding sounds, with a score or without', Sydney Morning
Herald, 24 October 2006.
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