Sandy Evans

Sandy Evans is an award-winning[1][2] Australian jazz composer,[3][4] saxophonist,[5] and teacher active from 1982.

In the 1980s Evans played in the group Women and Children First.[6] Later she was a member of the Sydney band Ten Part Invention.[7]

Evans composed the music for the 1999 radio drama Testimony: The Legend of Charlie Parker, which showcased the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa, and was broadcast on ABC's Soundstage FM.[8][9]

She delivered the 10th Annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address in 2008 and received an Order of Australia in 2010 for services to music.[10] She has been described by ABC Radio National's "Inside Sleeve" program as Australia's leading female jazz musician.[11] At the APRA Music Awards of 2013, her composition Meetings at the Table of Time performed by members of the Australian Art Orchestra and the Sruthi Laya Ensemble won Performance of the Year and was nominated for Work of the Year – Jazz.[12][13][14]

Recordings

Evans has performed on more than 30 albums.[10] Her album When the Sky Cries Rainbows was awarded Best Independent Jazz album at the 2011 Jägermeister Independent Music Awards.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Stephen Pleskun (28 March 2014). A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS - Vol. 4 1999-2013. Xlibris Corporation. pp. 395–. ISBN 978-1-4931-3537-0.
  2. 1 2 "REVIEW: Sandy Evans – When the Sky Cries Rainbows". The Orange Press.
  3. ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (1 March 2009). Britannica Book of the Year 2009. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. pp. 275–. ISBN 978-1-59339-232-1.
  4. ↑ " Sandy Evans: When the Sky Cries Rainbows (2011)". IAN PATTERSON, All About Jazz, January 27, 2012
  5. ↑ Chris Gibson (11 June 2014). Creativity in Peripheral Places: Redefining the Creative Industries. Routledge. pp. 107–. ISBN 978-1-317-97778-0.
  6. ↑ Roger Dean; Hazel Smith (5 November 2013). Improvisation Hypermedia and the Arts Since 1945. Routledge. pp. 81–. ISBN 978-1-134-37606-3.
  7. 1 2 "Jazz Masterpiece: Ten Part Invention - Unidentified Spaces', 2001". The Monthly. John Clare.
  8. ↑ Andrew Crisell (2006). More Than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World. Berghahn Books. pp. 220–. ISBN 978-1-84545-046-5.
  9. ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (1 March 2014). Britannica Book of the Year 2014. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. pp. 154–. ISBN 978-1-62513-171-3.
  10. 1 2 3 "Saxophonist puts tragedy on record". John McBeath. The Australian October 06, 2011
  11. ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/insidesleeve/2012-11-02/4342272
  12. ↑ "Performance of the Year". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australian Music Centre (AMC). 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  13. ↑ "Work of the Year – Jazz". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australian Music Centre (AMC). 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  14. ↑ "Performance of the Year". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australian Music Centre (AMC). 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  15. ↑ "Winners announced for the 2011 Jagermeister Independent Music Awards". AU Review, October 16, 2011 - Andrew Wade
  16. ↑ "Cosmic Waves: Sandy Evans and Friends". The Australian. (subscription required).
  17. ↑ "JAZZ: The Catholics' Yonder." Sydney Morning Herald.

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