For Aussie Friday today, I am featuring the New York based young Australian saxophonist Evan Harris. Harris won the Bell award for Young Australian Jazz Artist Of The Year in 2018 for his album Skylines from which today’s track Gunderman is from. It joins a poolroom of over a dozen other scholarships and awards. He received the University Medal with his Batchelor of Music from the University of Sydney in 2016, and completed a Master of Music (Jazz Studies) at the Juilliard School in New York in 2018, receiving the William Schuman Prize, for outstanding achievement and leadership.
At 25 he has already toured metropolitan and regional Australia, the USA and Switzerland.
Gunderman is the first track on his album of original compositions and
is about a shack on the Hawkesbury River (on the central coast of NSW) that my family frequented throughout my childhood. There was a jetty that extended from the back yard, through the mangroves, and to the river. The mangroves created a narrow corridor through which the river was visible. The view was enchanting.
The personnel on the album are Evan Harris (tenor saxophone), Will Vinson (alto saxophone), Sean Wayland (piano), Des White (contrabass), and Jochen Ruckert (drums)
