Clarion Fracture Zone is an Australian contemporary jazz ensemble. Their debut album ''Blue Shift'' (1990), released through ABC Records, won the 1991

ARIA Award The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austra ...

for Best Jazz Album. It was recorded by the line-up of

Sandy Evans Sandy Evans is an Australian jazz composer, saxophonist, and teacher. Recognition of her work has included receiving an Order of Australia Medal in 2010 for services to music.

on tenor and soprano saxophones; Tony Gorman on alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet and percussion;

Alister Spence Alister Spence is an Australian jazz pianist and composer. Spence leads the Alister Spence Trio with Lloyd Swanton and Toby Hall. They were nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album in 2004 for ''Flux'' and in 2007 for ''Mercury''. Ban ...

on piano and keyboards; Steve Elphick on bass guitar; Andrew Dickeson on drums and percussion. They were also nominated in the same category in 1997 for their fourth album, ''Less Stable Elements'' (1996).

Members

Sandy Evans Sandy Evans is an Australian jazz composer, saxophonist, and teacher. Recognition of her work has included receiving an Order of Australia Medal in 2010 for services to music.

: saxophones (tenor, soprano) *Tony Gorman: saxophones (alto, tenor), clarinet *

: piano, keyboards *

Lloyd Swanton Lloyd Stuart Swanton (born 14 August 1960) is an Australian jazz double bassist, bass guitarist, and composer. Swanton was a member of Dynamic Hepnotics in 1986McFarlan'Dynamic Hepnotics'entry. Retrieved 21 February 2010. and co-founded jazz t ...

: double bass *Toby Hall: drums ;Former *Steve Elphick: bass *Andrew Dickeson: drums *Louis Burdett: drums *Tony Buck: drums

Discography

Albums

Awards

ARIA Music Awards

The

ARIA Music Awards The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...

is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

Australian music The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions o ...

. They commenced in 1987. ! , - ,

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

, ''Blue Shift'' , Best Jazz Album , , ARIA Award previous winners. , - ,

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

, ''Less Stable Elements'' , Best Jazz Album , , , -

References

External links

Clarion Fracture Zone , Sandy EvansClarion Fracture Zone : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia
{{Authority control Musical groups from Sydney ARIA Award winners Australian jazz ensembles Musical groups established in 1988