Steve Barry Blueprints Trio at JMI Live

…dazzling in his harmonic adventurousness, melodic resourcefulness, switchback rhythmic ideas and non-bombastic sense of drama. – Sydney Morning Herald

…one of Australia’s most inventive and accomplished composer/improvisers. – LoudMouth Magazine

Barry’s Blueprints Trio continues to mine the terrain established by his 2018 quartet release Blueprints & Vignettes – which was awarded 4 stars by the Sydney Morning Herald and long-listed for the 14th Australian Music Prize. With bassist Jacques Emery and drummer Alex Inman-Hislop, the trio navigates between schematics and vignettes, through plethoric rhythmic labyrinths, and flirts with notions of ‘improvised’ & ‘composed’ with a distinctive improvisatory rapport....

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…dazzling in his harmonic adventurousness, melodic resourcefulness, switchback rhythmic ideas and non-bombastic sense of drama. – Sydney Morning Herald

…one of Australia’s most inventive and accomplished composer/improvisers. – LoudMouth Magazine

Barry’s Blueprints Trio continues to mine the terrain established by his 2018 quartet release Blueprints & Vignettes – which was awarded 4 stars by the Sydney Morning Herald and long-listed for the 14th Australian Music Prize. With bassist Jacques Emery and drummer Alex Inman-Hislop, the trio navigates between schematics and vignettes, through plethoric rhythmic labyrinths, and flirts with notions of ‘improvised’ & ‘composed’ with a distinctive improvisatory rapport.

…besides carving some challenging notated figures for his collaborators, he allows the music to unravel into pools of free improvisation in which mood and interaction predominate over any predetermined concepts. The album becomes a dialogue between the concrete and the abstract, and not always with the composed elements fulfilling the former role and the improvised the latter. – Sydney Morning Herald

Dr. Steve Barry is a New-Zealand born, Sydney-based pianist, organist, composer and improviser. A sessional lecturer in improvisation and jazz piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Steve maintains an active schedule composing, teaching and performing across Australia, New Zealand and Japan. He is recipient of numerous awards, including the Bell Award for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year and runner-up in the National Jazz Awards, and was finalist in the 2019 APRA Professional Development Awards.

Steve Barry – piano | Jacques Emery – bass | Alex Inman-Hislop – drums

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