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SUMMARY:88x8 - Matt McMahon and Monica Brooks
LOCATION:Newtown Mission Church\, 280A King St\, Newtown\, NSW\, 2042
URL:https://events.humanitix.com/88x8-matt-mcmahon-and-monica-brooks
DESCRIPTION:Piano solos\nMatt McMahon\nMonica Brooks\nRARETY &amp\; ROMANTICISM\nIf you’re a Sydney jazz-lover\, you’ll know &amp\; love Matt McMahon. Since running away with the Wangaratta Jazz Piano Award in 1999\, Matt’s formidable technique\, impeccable taste &amp\; genius in unobtrusively enhancing every conceivable style of music from standards to avant-garde\, whatever the band instrumentation\, on whichever quality keyboard\, at wherever faraway venue\, is the stuff of legend. Every performance has integrity that rewards deep &amp\; careful listening. An unshakeable fidelity to the principle of always making musical quality paramount leads him to eschew personal showiness for group substance\, to subordinate bravura individual indulgence to the quality of the ensemble.\nWhich is precisely why every rare solo Matt McMahon performance on a fine piano in a beautiful setting for an appreciative audience is a genuine occasion. Ten fingers\, 88 keys &amp\; the history of jazz are his band\, leaving him free to express a gentle lyricism\; a quiet\, recondite sort of Celtic romanticism that can pass unnoticed in larger or louder group settings.\nEach rare Monica Brooks performance is a treasured event. Often confined to infrequent performances in the improv/free/alternative music scene at small\, non-commercial out-of-the-way spaces\, her music - whether playing harmonium in the women’s super-group Great Waitress or performing solo piano - refutes every lazy stereotype asserting that free improv/jazz is necessarily harsh\, strident …\n\nTickets: https://events.humanitix.com/88x8-matt-mcmahon-and-monica-brooks
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