Author: ade ishs

I will be playing in the piano–bass–drum format again at Paris Cat after two years. It will feature music from both ade ishs Trio and ade ishs Trio Live. Sharing the stage with me will be Chelsea Allen on drums and Tamara Murphy on bass.

The show will take place on 28 July 2016, 8:30pm–10:30pm at the upper level (Parisian Loft), 6 Goldie Pl, Melbourne CBD, AU. Ticket is $20.

The Uptown Jazz Cafe in cooperation with Melbourne Improvisers Collective and Melbourne Jazz Co-operative will host these two shows:

• 23 June 2016, 10pm–11pm: ade ishs Trio w/Chelsea Allen & Frank Di Sario. Ticket: $10. Presented by Melbourne Improvisers Collective.
• 10 July 2016, 8:30pm–10:30pm: The ishs/Allen Project. Ticket: $18/$12. Presented by Melbourne Jazz Co-operative.

The cafe is located at 177 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, Vic, AU.

I will be participating in this year’s Castlemaine Jazz Festival on 11–12 June. What a lovely little town in central Victoria!

You can watch me play with four outfits:

• ade ishs Trio w/Chelsea Allen & Jess Wood.
• The ishs/Allen Project w/Paul Bonnington, Ben Nieuwkerk & Anthony Tropea.
• Ozark.
• The Jon Magill Undectet (11 June only).

In addition to playing, Chelsea and I will also be interviewed on MainFM (Castlemaine 94.9 FM) on Sunday, 12 June at 10am by Suzanne Donisthorpe.

Come to these special gigs by my trio with Chelsea Allen and Geoff Kluke at Oscar’s Alehouse, 7 Bayview Rd, Belgrave, Vic, AU on 15 April and 20 May. Both start at 9:30pm and entry is free.

We will be playing a mixture of my originals from my discography as well as previously unreleased materials with a few jazz standards thrown into the mix.

Line up:
ade ishs: keyboard
Chelsea Allen: drums
Geoff Kluke​: bass

The ishs/Allen Project will play throughout Melbourne’s summer and autumn this year. Check out these shows:

• 11 February, 6:00pm
  St Kilda Festival
  Alliance Française de Melbourne
  51 Grey St, St Kilda, Vic, AU
• 13–14 February
  Grampians Jazz Festival
  Halls Gap, Vic, AU
• 27 February, 2:15pm
  Eltham Jazz, Food & Wine Festival
  Terrace Stage, Eltham Town Centre, Eltham, Vic, AU
• 6 March, 5:00pm
  Farouk’s Olive
  711 High St, Thornbury, Vic, AU
• 12–13 March
  Inverloch Jazz Festival
  Inverloch, Vic, AU
• 7 April, 8:00pm
  Paris Cat Jazz Club
  Parisian Loft, 6 Goldie Pl, Melbourne CBD, AU

ABC Australia Interview

Street Date: 1 November 2015

Lighthearted jazz with a poised and assured use of space and sound

The ade ishs Trio releases their live video album on 1 November 2015. This DVD release, as the title and cover artwork suggest, is complementary to the band’s self-titled CD released two years earlier with the same line up: bandleader/composer/pianist ade ishs, drummer Chelsea Allen, and bassist Daigo Nakai. New compositions are included in addition to new takes on the existing ones.

The video was recorded live at The Maven Room in Melbourne’s Burwood Music Centre. ade says about it, “This is really a marvellous venue, perfect for our purposes. Due to its highly sensitive acoustic nature, Chelsea in particular had to play in a way different from how she usually does. Listening to the recording, it sounds better than what I expected!”

Among the songs in the album, there are some previously unreleased ones, all joyful. Two of those are latin summer-themed pieces aptly called Summer Sunlight and Summer Breeze. The other one is a lively blues called Happy Friends 1. The album also contains a number of songs originally found in the trio’s studio release, but with the core spirits of the songs more pronounced. In Go On 3, ade and Chelsea play an evocative intro to enhance the emotiveness of the ballad. Daigo’s arco playing in Cold Summer adds more drama to the already theatrical piece.

“In this release, you will see how much we enjoy the interplay between us. Making emotive music has been something I love to do, and I’ve been very lucky to play with this trio of like-minded musicians.”

Track Listing

1. Cold Summer
2. Soil
3. For What It’s Worth
4. Go On 3
5. Blues for Chelsea
6. Victoria Street
7. Understanding
8. The Differing Sky
9. Happy Friends 1
10. Summer Sunlight
11. Summer Breeze

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Sharni White of the cargoART Magazine has written a glowing review of our show at Paris Cat on 1 July 2015: “The ishs/Allen Project has the ability to bring new listeners into the world of jazz and unite them with veteran lovers.”
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Here is what Barry Ponchard (3WBC 94.1FM Melbourne) thinks about our debut album.