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Also on the show: we sample new releases by US bassist Marc Johnson (co-leading a quartet with his wife Eliane Elias) and Melbourne pianist Gemma Turvey. Plus there’s music from John Abercrombie, Peter Petrucci and the Count Basie Orchestra.
THE CATHOLICS – ‘D’s Blues’
CD: Inter Vivos, 2009
TONY GOULD / PETER PETRUCCI – ‘Next Time I See Her’
CD: The Journey Home, 2012
PETER PETRUCCI – ‘Side Car’
CD: This Way Out, 2012
MISINTEPROTATO – ‘Places’
CD: Now For The Free, 2003
BERNIE McGANN QUARTET – ‘Angelica’
Live in Sydney (unreleased ABC recording), 2012
SINIKKA LANGELAND – ‘Triumph of Being’
CD: The Land That is Not, 2011
GREGG ARTHUR – ‘Nature Boy’
CD: Unforgettable, 2012
COUNT BASIE and HIS ORCHESTRA – ‘April in Paris’
CD: April in Paris, 1956/1957, 1997
GEMMA TURVEY and THE NEW PALM ORCHESTRA – ‘Turquoise’
CD: Landscapes for a Mind’s Eye, 2012
MARC JOHNSON / ELIANE ELIAS – ‘B is for Butterfly’
CD: Swept Away, 2012
JOHN ABERCROMBIE – ‘Interplay’
CD: Within A Song, 2012
OREGON – ‘Hand in Hand’
CD: 45th Parallel, 1989
MUTHSPIEL, GRIGORYAN, TOWNER – ‘Icarus’
CD: From a Dream, 2008
JOSEPH TAWADROS – ‘Forbidden Fruit’
CD: The Hour of Separation, 2010
STU HUNTER – ‘VI’
CD: The Muse, 2007
Broadcast
Sep 20, 2012. 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Sep 23, 2012. 12:00pm - 2:00pm
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Bernie McGann (born 22 June 1937) is an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and is still active as a performer, composer and recording artist. Born in Granville, New South Wales, in Sydney's western suburbs, McGann first came to prominence as part of a loose alliance of modern jazz musicians who performed at the El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Kings Cross, Sydney...
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