www.continuumsax.com
Australia's foremost saxophone quartet, Continuum Sax perform a unique repertoire of composed and improvised works.
Continuum Sax has collaborated with MATCH Percussion, sound artist Gail Priest, didgeridoo player Mick Davison, and jazz experimentalists the Freedivers.
Continuum Sax has commissioned or inspired works from composers including Stuart Greenbaum, Paul Stanhope, Jane Stanley, and Barry Cockcroft.
Continuum Sax has released two CDs, CONTINUUM (2001) and ICON (2005).
Continuum Sax are:
Margery Smith
James Nightingale
Martin Kay
Jarrod Whitbourn
In Review:
‘This is a group that plays as one - a really beautiful, integrated sonority…’ – From Review of Continuum CD, 24 Hours Magazine (Oct 2002).
'Continuum Sax do improvisation very well, as in Margery Smith's fond treatment of Sandy Evans's DPM. However, the ensemble is equally impressive when playing scored works, thus affording Barry Cockcroft's quartet p a powerful...advocacy and making Perry Goldstein's Motherless Child Variations, with its telling references to Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, so memorable.' - from review, 'Deft at melding sounds, with a score or without', Sydney Morning Herald, 24 October 2006.