‘Remembering JOHN COLTRANE & JOHNNY HARTMAN’ ft Dorian Mode, Brendan Berlach + the Rodric White Trio – Friday, 3rd of March 2023:
Remembering JOHN COLTRANE and JOHNNY HARTMAN …
On Thursday 7th March 1963, saxophonist / composer John Coltrane recorded one of his most lush / poignant albums with 40-year-old singer Johnny Hartman. The music recorded on this day by Coltrane and Hartman was released on the Impulse label later that year, remaining a high point in both artists’ careers and one of the finest records by Coltrane. This landmark recording is an album of lyrical beauty and simply one of the greatest in the jazz canon.
Dorian Mode
Dorian Mode is a multi-award-winning jazz musician, studying music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and then signing to EMI Records – one of the few local jazz artists to be signed to a major label in Australia – releasing his debut CD ‘Rebirth Of The Cool’ with jazz luminaries Bernie McGann, Mike Bukovsky, Lisa Parrott, and Adam Armstrong.
Dorian has recorded numerous CDs earning an ABC Music Award for Best Instrumental and Best Jazz Composition, the latter composition published in the Australian Jazz Real Book. Dorian has composed the music for a TV series for FOX in the US and recently, ABC’s Compass. He was awarded an ABC Music Award for Best Theatrical Score for the play ‘The Good German’ at the Seymour Centre.
Not only, but also … Dorian is a writer of funny novels published by Penguin and Random House in Europe, and an internationally published playwright. Dorian recently toured the South Pacific with Galapagos Duck as their guest singer.
Rodric White
Rodric White is a regular pianist / music director at FOUNDRY616 presenting shows with singers Julia Shved (Ukraine), Juliana Areias (Brazil), Patricia Ségui (France), Magdalena Mira (Chile), Virna Sazone, Simone Waddell, Rebekka Neville, Liam Burrows, Lana Nesnas and Tiana Young. Rodric enjoys performing with leading jazz musicians: trumpeters Ralph Pyl, Alan Davey, Simon Ferenci, and Mike Kenny, saxophonists Jason Morphett, Craig Walters, Glenn Henrich, Andrew Robertson, and Paul Cutlan, trombonist / trumpeter Danny Carmichael, trombonist Rod Herbert, and guitarists Dave Smith, Richard Bornman, and Paul Mitchell-Brown.
Rodric wrote music arrangements for Dorian Mode’s album ‘Café In Venice’ (La Brava Music 2002) and was a finalist in the 1999 National Australian Jazz Piano Competition. Rodric recently released his third album ‘As Beautiful As Day’ NEW3418.2 through Newmarket Music (Australia).
Brendan Berlach
Tenor saxophonist Brendan Berlach studied jazz under Dale Barlow and Judy Bailey during his time in the jazz course at Sydney Con. Brendan has since released two albums of original music and performed widely including at Venue 505, the Sydney Opera House, and the ARIA awards.
- Dorian Mode … singer
- Rodric White … pianist / music director
- Brendan Berlach… tenor saxophone
- Fiona Lugg … acoustic bass
- Steve Ley … drums
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