Monday 4 June 2012

EMO at the Powerhouse!

EMO's next exciting concert at the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of Jazz Queensland's Hot Jazz Cool Nights festival is coming up on Thursday 14 June at 7pm. Get tickets at www.brisbanepowerhouse.org



HOT JAZZ COOL NIGHTS - ENTHUSIASTIC MUSICIANS ORCHESTRA

The Enthusiastic Musician’s Orchestra features 17 Brisbane jazz musicians playing the original music of the current crop of exciting local jazz composers. The Enthusiastic Musicians Orchestra creates a dynamic vehicle for Brisbane musicians, composers, and arrangers to create new work. With all the bluster and bombast of a classic big band as well as the subtlety and refinement of a modern jazz orchestra EMO draws on an existing library of one hundred and fifty charts forging the band’s status as an artistic big band ensemble driven to swing, and swing hard! EMO is sure to captivate all listeners.

Duration: 1hr 40mins with an interval

Full $27
Concession $23

Saturday 21 April 2012

Live recordings from 17 April 2012

The show on 17 April 2012 was EMO's last gig at the Turnaround Jazz Club for a while. Thanks to the Turnaround for having us and all the players and writers involved - we had a great time! Our next gig coming up is at the Brisbane Powerhouse on 14 June 2012. You can get tickets here: http://brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/view/hot-jazz-cool-nights-enthusiastic-musicians-orchestra/

Here's a recording of a new chart for the band from Chris Vale.


The Next Step (arr. Chris Vale) by emorchestra


Live recordings from 10 April 2012

Featuring Bohdan Davison on the alto.

Lush Life (arr. Andrew Garton) by emorchestra

Live recordings from 20 March 2012

Featuring James Ball on piano, Josh Hatcher on bari and Chris Vale on drums.

Blows for Joes (by Andrew Garton) by emorchestra

Live recordings from 13 March 2012

Featuring Sacha Kloostra on drums.


Long Way Home (Wade Gregory) by emorchestra

Tuesday 24 January 2012

Thursday 19 January 2012

EMO @ Turnaround in 2012

This blog will be used to post live recordings of Enthusiastic Musician's Orchestra gigs. Upcoming shows are:

7 February 2012
14 February 2012
21 February 2012

6 March 2012
13 March 2012
20 March 2012

3 April 2012
10 April 2012
17 April 2012

All gigs start at 8pm at the Turnaround Jazz Club in Brisbane (http://turnaroundjazzclub.com/). We'll try and keep this blog updated with info about featured composers and artists each week (we haven't really worked all of that out yet...).

You could also "like" our Facebook page to be kept abreast of details (http://www.facebook.com/pages/EMO/174502385984738) or keep an eye on the Jazz Queensland gig guide (http://www.jazzqueensland.com/).

Hopefully we'll manage to get the recordings of the gigs up the day after each show.