Clarion Fracture Zone is an Australian contemporary jazz ensemble. Their debut album ''Blue Shift'' (1990), released through ABC Records, won the 1991
ARIA Award
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...
for
Best Jazz Album.
It was recorded by the line-up of
Sandy Evans on tenor and soprano saxophones; Tony Gorman on alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet and percussion;
Alister Spence
Alister Spence is an Australian jazz pianist and composer.
Spence leads the Alister Spence Trio with Lloyd Swanton and Toby Hall. They were nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album in 2004 for ''Flux'' and in 2007 for ''Mercury''.
Ban ...
on piano and keyboards; Steve Elphick on bass guitar; Andrew Dickeson on drums and percussion.
They were also nominated in the same category in 1997 for their fourth album, ''Less Stable Elements'' (1996).
Members
*
Sandy Evans: saxophones (tenor, soprano)
*Tony Gorman: saxophones (alto, tenor), clarinet
*
Alister Spence
Alister Spence is an Australian jazz pianist and composer.
Spence leads the Alister Spence Trio with Lloyd Swanton and Toby Hall. They were nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album in 2004 for ''Flux'' and in 2007 for ''Mercury''.
Ban ...
: piano, keyboards
*
Lloyd Swanton
Lloyd Stuart Swanton (born 14 August 1960) is an Australian jazz double bassist, bass guitarist, and composer.
Swanton was a member of Dynamic Hepnotics in 1986McFarlan'Dynamic Hepnotics'entry. Retrieved 21 February 2010. and co-founded jazz ...
: double bass
*Toby Hall: drums
;Former
*Steve Elphick: bass
*Andrew Dickeson: drums
*Louis Burdett: drums
*Tony Buck: drums
Discography
Albums
Awards
ARIA Music Awards
The
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...
is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of
Australian music
The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions of ...
. They commenced in 1987.
!
, -
,
1991
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, ''Blue Shift''
,
Best Jazz Album
,
,
[ARIA Award previous winners. ]
, -
,
1997
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, ''Less Stable Elements''
, Best Jazz Album
,
,
, -
References
External links
Clarion Fracture Zone , Sandy EvansClarion Fracture Zone : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia
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Musical groups from Sydney
ARIA Award winners
Australian jazz ensembles
Musical groups established in 1988