Lisa Young Quartet
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Lisa Young Quartet is a jazz quartet from Melbourne
, Australia
, led by a vocal artist and composer Lisa Young.
Lisa Young Quartet's music is based on original compositions exploring themes of contemporary life, with rich vocal interpretations and musical complements with world music influences. 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 konnakkol influences (the South Indian vocal percussion technique).
The first album Transformation featured Peter Jones on the piano, and George Polyhronakos on drums. The album Speak featured Colin Hopkins on the piano, and on four songs Darryn Farrugia played drums. The third album Grace breaks from the established piano-bass-drums arrangement: piano was absent, and Stephen Magnusson played guitar. On albums on Speak and Grace Dave Beck plays drums.
Melbourne
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, Australia
Australia
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, led by a vocal artist and composer Lisa Young.
Lisa Young Quartet's music is based on original compositions exploring themes of contemporary life, with rich vocal interpretations and musical complements with world music influences. 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 konnakkol influences (the South Indian vocal percussion technique).
Albums
Lisa Young Quartet has released three albums: Transformation (1991), Speak (1999), and Grace (2006). On all three albums Lisa Young was accompanied with the bass player Ben Robertson, who was also a co-composer on a number of songs.- Transformation (1991). (Out of print)
- Speak (1999). Distributed by Sound Vault Records
- Grace (2006). Distributed by Sound Vault Records
The first album Transformation featured Peter Jones on the piano, and George Polyhronakos on drums. The album Speak featured Colin Hopkins on the piano, and on four songs Darryn Farrugia played drums. The third album Grace breaks from the established piano-bass-drums arrangement: piano was absent, and Stephen Magnusson played guitar. On albums on Speak and Grace Dave Beck plays drums.