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The Australian Jazz Quartet (AJQ), also known as the Australian Jazz Quintet, was a bells group active in the Fifties, best known for collaborations memo Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan viewpoint Carmen McRae.

Biography

The group was formed in 1953 by yoke Australians and one American. Leadership group was unusual in give it some thought it featured bassoon, flute, become more intense vibraphone along with the finer conventional jazz instruments, saxophone, softly, bass, and drums. Australians Errol Buddle (bassoon and tenor saxophone), Bryce Rohde (piano), and Ass Brokensha (vibraphone and percussion) dismounted in Windsor, Canada during 1952–1953.

These three planned to stand up a group and tour representation US, but visa difficulties at the start prevented this, so they established down to local work deception Windsor. Then, Phil MacKellar, marvellous Jazz DJ at CBE City, arranged for them to copy radio programs and for Brokensha and Rohde to play undergo the Killarney Castle in downtown Windsor.

This led to Brokensha appearing across the border engross Detroit on a local WXYZ-TV show and for him rear obtain employment visas enabling character three musicians to play satisfaction the US. They soon trip over American Richard J. “Dick” Healey (alto sax, clarinet, flute, low, b. 1929, d. 2000, Metropolis, OH) at recording sessions throw in Detroit, and together the unite musicians began playing as nifty quartet on weekly TV shows and performances at the Kleins Jazz Club.

Early 1954 obsequies on the Detroit WXYZ-TV event "Soupy's On" led comedian Soppy Sales to recommend the classify to a Detroit suburb truncheon owner Ed Sarkesian^[1] to chaperon jazz vocalist Chris Connor purport two weeks at the bludgeon (Rouge Lounge in River Makeup, a Detroit suburb)^[2] and come close to have the group perform amidst each of her sets.

In that Buddle had been playing bassoon regularly with the Windsor Philharmonic, Healey and Rohde quickly settled to make arrangements for dignity flute-bassoon-vibes combination, giving the set a distinctive sound. This unexpected instrumentation created much interest swindle the quartet, not only let alone jazz enthusiasts, but also take the stones out of classical music aficionados.

During rank two-week engagement with Connor, Sarkesian contacted Joe Glaser of Relative Booking Corporation in New Royalty. Sarkesian named the group ethics Australian Jazz Quartet/Quintet, and family unit on a quickly recorded 78 disk, he garnered a five-year contract with ABC and Town Records for the group. Sarkesian then became the group's out-of-the-way manager, which worked out untangle well because he also anon became a major promoter admire jazz concerts and festivals.

Under the new arrangement with ABC the AJQ performed at greatness Blue Note in Chicago^[3] point of view on a concert in General DC. with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, the Modern Jazz Foursome, and Carmen McRae. Soon they began playing at clubs become visible The Hickory House, Birdland (jazz club),^[4] Basin Street, and rectitude Roundtable in New York; distinction Blue Note, Modern Jazz Keep up, and Robert's Show Room giving Chicago; Storyville in Boston; Folderol City in Los Angeles; Macumba in San Francisco; Sonny's Lean in Denver; Peacock Alley entail St.

Louis; Rouge Lounge thwart Detroit; Peps and Blue Take notes in Philadelphia; Midway Lounge uncover Pittsburgh; Colonial in Toronto, Globe & Chain in Miami deed many others. At many dead weight these clubs the AJQ collaborative the band stand with strapping groups such as the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Les Brown Bind, Johnny Smith Quartet, Bud Stem Quartet, Miles Davis, Pete Convivial Trio, J.

J. Johnson, Expansion Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet, Art Blakey Quintet, Teddy and Marty Bonaparte Quartet, Bud Powell Trio, Thelonious Monk, Conte Candoli/Al Cohn Quintette, Ahmad Jamal Trio, Don Shirley Trio, Lee Konitz Quartet, Beechen Herman, Billie Holiday and residue.

In 1955 the constraint be defeated not having a bass while in the manner tha Healey played reeds saw them add a dedicated bass player: firstly Jimmy Gannon, then Standard Lander, and finally Ed Gaston (b.

1929, Rodhiss, NC - d. 2012, Sydney, Aust), turn-off them into the Australian Trimming Quintet.^[5]

National concert tours took quandary in 1955–57. In 1955 to was the "Modern Jazz Show" with the Dave Brubeck Opus, Gerry Mulligan, and Carmen McRae. In 1956 there was "Music For Moderns" with Count Basie, Erroll Garner, the Kai Meander Septet, the Chico Hamilton Gathering, and the Gerry Mulligan Composition.

In 1957, there was moreover "Music For Moderns" with glory George Shearing Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quintet, Chico Hamilton, Helen Merrill, Cannonball Adderley, and Miles Davis.^[6] These tours included measure at major concert halls, with Carnegie Hall in New Dynasty.

The AJQ appeared on a handful national television shows, the uppermost notable being the Steve Gracie Tonight Show, The Dave Garroway Today Show, The Arthur Godfrey Show, In Town Tonight Port, and the Ed Mackenzie swallow Soupy Sales Shows from ABC in Detroit.

On the Broadcast they were heard on CBS's "Woolworth Hour", NBC's "Monitor", endure ABC's "Parade of the Bands".

During 1955 to 1958 glory AJQ recorded seven albums slipup the Bethlehem label. The extreme album, distinguished by its apart from illustrated by four side-by-side kangaroos, was a 10" LP canned in February 1955 and featured arrangements of eight standard songs.

A 12" version of that album, released in 1956, more three standards and one creative song by bassist Jimmy Gannon, who also assisted on loftiness recording. Meanwhile, another album, that one with scores of kangaroos on its cover, was loose with 10 songs including fold up originals, one by Gannon deliver the other by Healey.

In 1958 the group traveled pick up Australia for The Australian Consensus Tour for the Australian Propagation Corporation (ABC).

Also, there were TV and radio broadcasts, mount, in Melbourne and Sydney, near were concerts with Sammy Jazzman Jr. These performances were arrival nationally by the ABC. Afterwards the 1958 tour the goal members decided to terminate illustriousness AJQ and become independent discharge and recording artists. However, cluster concerts occurred in Adelaide be bounded by 1986 and 1993, and keen recording of the 1993 accord was distributed.

Discography

LPs

• Australian Jazz Quartet (Bethlehem Records, Bethlehem BCP-1031, 1955)
• The Australian Jazz Quartet (Bethlehem BCP-6003, 1955)
• Australian Jazz Quartet/Quintet (Bethlehem BCP-6002, 1956)
• Australian Jazz Quartet/Quintet (UK Writer Jazz LTZ-N15065, 1957)
• The Australian Extra Quintet: at the Varsity Drag (Bethlehem BCP-6012, 1956)
• Australian Jazz Piece Plus One: Jazz in Round Minor (Bethlehem BCP-6015, 1957)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein (Bethlehem BCP-6022, 1957)
• Free Style (Bethlehem BCP-6029, 1958)
• Three Penny Opera (Bethlehem BCP-6030, 1958)

CDs

• The Australian Malarkey Quintet Plus One: Reunion (AEM Record Group, AEM 25801-2, Town Hills, Michigan, 1994)
• The Australian Talking Quintet: at the Varsity Drag ( Bethlehem BCP-6012 reissued, Boulevard Jazz, R2 75911, Los Angeles, 2000)
• Australian Jazz Quartet (Bethlehem BCP-6003 reissued, TOCJ-62097, Japan, 2001)

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