Lisa Young Quartet

The Lisa Young Quartet is a jazz-world music quartet from Melbourne, Australia, led by a vocal artist and composer Lisa Young.

Her quartet with Stephen Magnusson (guitar) Ben Robertson (double bass) and Dave Beck (drums) explores a diverse musical expression. Their most recent work, The Eternal Pulse, is a wordless song-cycle featuring the intoned rhythmic recitation of konnakol, varieties of meter and subdivision, layering Indian elements, rhythmic textures and ensemble dialogue, in an evocative journey of sound and song.

Albums

Lisa Young Quartet has released 5 albums: "Grace Special Edition (2014), "The Eternal Pulse" (December 2013), Grace (2007), Speak (1999) and Transformation (1991). On all albums Lisa Young was accompanied with the bass player Ben Robertson, who was also a co-composer on a number of songs.

Awards

In 2007 the quartet's album 'Grace' won the BELL Award for 'Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album 2007'

In 2012 the quartet's album 'The Eternal Pulse' was a nominated finalists for "Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album" at the Bell Awards.[4][5][6]

Lisa Young

Lisa Young is a prominent musician on the Melbourne jazz scene, known for the use of wordless vocals and the use of voice as an instrument with Konnakol influences (the South Indian vocal percussion technique).[7]

Lisa Young is a creative vocal stylist and improviser, incorporating Indian and African elements in her work. A longtime student of mridangam maestro Karaikudi Mani in Chennai, Lisa specializes in ‘konnakol’ - South Indian vocal percussion. She has studied South Indian music since 1994 both in Australia and India.

She is best known for her work with the Lisa Young Quartet and vocal-percussion ensemble Coco’s Lunch. She is currently completing a PhD in music performance at Monash University where she received the Monash – Pratt Post Graduate Award for her candidature. The song-cycle The Eternal Pulse is the major work created as part of the PhD.

Coco's Lunch

Young is also a member of an a cappella group, Coco's Lunch, which has recorded six albums of original music.[8] In 2003, Coco's Lunch won the award for 'Best Folk/World Song' at the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards, in the United States.[8] At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007, Coco's Lunch received nominations in the category 'Best Children's Album' for Rat Trap Snap and in 'Best World Music Album' for Blueprint.[9]

Awards

Lisa Young was a 2012 Bell Award Finalist in the Category "Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album" for the album The Eternal Pulse.

Lisa Young was the 2007 Bell Award Winner in the Category "Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album" for the album Grace.[4][5][6]

In 2010 Lisa received the Monash-Pratt Post Graduate Award for her PhD candidature at Monash University.

In 2012 she was awarded the prize for Best Paper at the 2012 Musicological Society of Australia’s Victorian Chapter Conference, for her PhD research presentation ‘The Evolving Nature of Konnakol in Contemporary Performance’.

In 2008 she was awarded a Project Fellowship Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts.

In 2003 her composition ‘Thulele Mama Ya’ (with Coco’s Lunch) won Best Folk/World Song in the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards in the USA With Coco’s Lunch she received 2 ARIA Award nominations in 2007.

References

  1. ↑ Bailey, C. Michael (1 March 2014). "Lisa Young Quartet: Grace (2014)". All About Jazz. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Patterson, Ian (21 May 2013). "Lisa Young Quartet: The Eternal Pulse (2012)". All About Jazz. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Nicholas, Jessica (2 July 2007). "Remarkable grace in amazing voice". The Age. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Lisa Young Quartet 'The Eternal Pulse' (AUS) - World Premiere & Magnet (AUS/Argentina) - World Premiere". Melbourne International Jazz Festival. 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Jackson, Andra (3 May 2007). "For jazz Hall of Fame, it's plain and simple: is Don, is good". The Age. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "The Australian Jazz Bell Awards 2007". The Australian Jazz Bell Awards Limited. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  7. ↑ "Asialink - India". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Coco's Lunch". cellensis - Festival Geistlicher Musik. 11 August 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  9. ↑ "Winners by Year 2007: 21st Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 January 2011.

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