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	Bernie McGann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernie McGann (born June 22, 1937) is a renowned Australian jazz alto saxophone player.
		Born in Granville, New South Wales, in Sydney's western suburbs, McGann first came to prominence as part of a loose alliance of modern jazz musicians who performed at the famous El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Kings Cross, Sydney in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
		The current lineup of the Trio is McGann (alto sax), John Pochee (drums), Lloyd Swanton (bass).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernie_McGann (584 words)

	Bernie McGann - Biography - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Bernie McGann's gruff, vocal alto sound and rough-hewn lyricism have marked him as an invigorating voice from Australia.
		The son of a metal worker who played drums in a dance band and listened to jazz, McGann first appeared on the Australian jazz scene in the '50s.
		McGann and his cohorts gained greater visibility in America in the late '80s and '90s with the release of recordings by all three of these ensembles.
	music.aol.com /artist/bernie-mcgann/213618/biography (245 words)

	Fewer sharp angles, but Sydney saxophonist remains spiky - theage.com.au
		McGann, the Sydney alto saxophonist, comes to Melbourne only rarely and typically performs here as part of a piano-less trio.
		Often, McGann would provide a brief but effective opening statement to set the tone of a piece, before leaving it in the remarkably fluid hands of Mark Fitzgibbon.
		Meanwhile, McGann would stand centre-stage, eyes closed, drinking in the trio's energy before letting it roll out of his horn - at times sounding spikily robust, at times surprisingly sweet, but always sounding immutably like himself.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/09/1025667131315.html (479 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz
		In the taciturn and almost self-effacing McGann, there is the perfect conflation of jazz man as hero and ordinary man. This is bound to be true of jazz artists all over the globe, but in the deeply ingrained egalitarianism of the Australian soul it rings especially true.
		McGann is due to play at SIMAÂ’s venue, the Side On CafÃ©, on Friday, June 16 and Saturday, June 17 (with trombonist James Greening on the 16th and saxophonist Sandy Evans on the 17th), backed by Lloyd Swanton (bass) and John PochÃ©e (drums).
		Bernie McGann would have been a metal worker had music not altered his course.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /articles/down0600.htm (3323 words)

	SIMA \| live music programme \| Bernie McGann Quartet with Chuck Yates (piano)
		Bernie McGann has been at the forefront of creative jazz in Australia for more than 40 years.
		He has led his acclaimed Bernie McGann Trio and Quartet through his entire career, to the present day and continues to work with powerful, individualistic group of musicians – all leaders in their own right.
		Legendary Sydney pianist Chuck Yates, often, in years past a collaborator with Bernie McGann and a favourite of such local innovators as saxophonist Mark Simmonds and drummer Phil Treloar, joins the McGann Quartet in place of Paul Grabowsky who had to cancel due to a family illness.
	www.sima.org.au /2006/12/02/bernie-mcgann-quartet-with-chuck-yates-piano (256 words)

	Perth Jazz Society : programme
		Since John Pochée and Bernie McGann met at the Mocambo and the famous El Rocco Jazz Cellar at the beginning of their careers, their long association has produced some of the country’s most important music.
		Bernie McGann Trio and Quartet recordings, with John Pochée on drums, have won four ARIA Awards over the last decade, and the Trio has won two ‘MO’ Awards for ‘Best Jazz Group’.
		In September 2004, he led Ten Part Invention on a two-week tour of the USA after the group was invited by the Chicago Jazz Festival where he had performed with the Bernie McGann Trio in 1997.
	www.perthjazzsociety.com /programme/detail/1582 (596 words)

	Bernie McGann Quartet - Gig Reviews - Music - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		McGann, who has been playing in Sydney since the 1950s, has never been a follower of musical fashion, which means that his sound never dates: McGann always sounds exactly like McGann.
		When McGann interprets a standard such as Lover Man, it's as though he is re-imagining the melody as he hears it, moulding its familiar shape into an instinctive and deeply felt response to the moment.
		Perhaps it really is the sound of McGann's spirit singing, in a gimmick-free environment that allows this seemingly inscrutable, craggy-faced icon to bare his soul with uncommon honesty.
	www.smh.com.au /news/gig-reviews/bernie-mcgann-quartet/2006/11/30/1164777696003.html (278 words)

	Rufus Records
		Bernie McGann was the first Jazz musician to win the Australia Council's Don Banks Award for an outstanding contribution to music (1998).
		Alto saxophonist Bernie McGann, for instance, is practically an archetype of the great artist who goes unsung throughout his life, or fortunately in McGann's case, until middle age.
		Three of her band comprise the great Bernie McGann Trio - bassist Lloyd Swanton, drummer John Pochee and alto saxophonist Bernie McGann.
	www.rufusrecords.com.au /artists.html (4458 words)

	Bernie McGann : Bundeena - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Bernie McGann is Australia's homegrown alto saxophone iconoclast.
		This sound derives not from some willful cribbing from these masters, but because McGann has such big ears that he absorbs what he hears in the external world as well as what he hears inside his own head.
		Still, on the ballad "The Last Postman" (a reference to McGann's former occupation), he plays with a catch in the sound that signals his studious avoidance of the commonplace.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1587616,00.html (320 words)

	Canberra Jazz blog
		Bernie McGann is a legend of Australian modern jazz, and his performance at Hippo’s was confirmation, if confirmation was needed.
		Bernie seemed to take it as inevitable, given he is Australian.
		Bernie was accompanied by Eric Ajaye (bass) and Chris Thwaite (drums), Graham Monger (guitar) and Dirk Zeylmans (tenor sax).
	canberrajazz.net /blog (7776 words)

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		Since 1990 Bernie McGann has been widely honoured: four Australian Record IndustryAwards (ARIAs) for 'Jazz recording of the year'.
		In 1997 The Bernie McGann Trio played at the prestigous Chicago JazzFestival.
		The book relates Magann's story from early roots through his early musicalforays towards a period of consolidation during the 1980's culminating inthe 'breakthrough' that was recognition with world wide exposure.
	www.kardoorair.com.au /books/berniemagann.html (107 words)

	Australian Jazz - OzJazz Sax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Veteran altoist McGann came of age with this trio recording from 1991, with drummer John Pochée and bassist Lloyd Swanton (The Necks) rounding out the lineup.
		McGann's playing here has been compared to both Stan Getz and Lee Konitz, although over the years many have found him reminiscent of Ornette Coleman.
		This is a fairly straightahead set, with Speight bopping it up while displaying his "keeper of the flame" reputation on Dizzy Gillespie's 'A Night in Tunisia'.
	home.austarnet.com.au /petersykes/jazz100/australian5.html (481 words)

	Always - CD Reviews - Music - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Paul Grabowsky and Bernie McGann's selection of beautiful standards.
		Paul Grabowsky is studied in jazz and classical music and has a knowledge of pop that should be exploited on the ABC's Spicks and Specks.
		Bernie McGann pursued jazz with the focus of an Irish priest.
	www.smh.com.au /news/cd-reviews/always/2006/07/21/1153166565369.html (198 words)

	Universal Music Australia - The Music Pages August 2005
		At this concert, they were joined by the one-and-only Joe Sample as well as the BBC Big Band and musicians from the Ulster Orchestra.
		After a series of 4 ARIA-winning studio albums McGann welcomes brilliant trumpeter Warwick Alder to a quartet for a live recording - a first for McGann lineups.
		The material - straight from his distinctive songbook mixing standards and his own classics - has the characteristic stamp of his live sets: lyricism and beautiful tone, driving energy, tremendous group interaction and a remarkable capacity to sustain intelligently unfolding solos.
	www.universalmusic.com.au /musicpages/oct05/jazzpriorities.html (1796 words)

	Upcoming.org: Paul Grabowsky and Bernie McGann at The Studio, Sydney Opera House (Thursday, September 8, 2005)
		Upcoming.org: Paul Grabowsky and Bernie McGann at The Studio, Sydney Opera House (Thursday, September 8, 2005)
		He then founded the Australian Art Orchestra, a 20-piece ensemble whose ground-breaking work across various musical genres has heralded a new era in Australian music.
		Bernie McGann has flown the flag of creative jazz in Australia with great distinction for some 40 years.
	upcoming.org /event/24614 (174 words)

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	Kulcha Calendar January 2002
		Renowned for his bold, exciting, freewheeling approach to modern jazz, Bernie McGann mixes origional compositions and marvellous reworkings of standards and lesser known songs.
		Bernie's souring alto sax will be joined by John Pochee on drums, Lloyd Swantion with acoustic bass and James Muller playing Guitar.
		The Girls From Impanema are a quintet formed by the two female frontline musicians, Jasmine Nelson (vocals) and Venessa Perica (trumpet).
	www.kulcha.com.au /0201 (835 words)

	SIMA: Sydney Improvised Music Association - Performance Programme - Music Discussion Forum
		Leading off is the Gerard Masters Trio (starting at 8pm) followed by two sets from the Bernie McGann Trio.
		McGann’s sound is all his own, full with a fractured polyphonic quality his effortless mastery fully evident." Adrian Cullen
		Bernie McGann (alto saxophone) Lloyd Swanton (bass) John Pochée (drums).
	www.music-discussion.com /showthread.php?t=1960 (2565 words)

	RAHA News: Beat hits the beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Graeme Bell, Errol Buddle, Paul Grabowsky, Bob Barnard and Bernie McGann with the mainstream of Adelaide's jazz scene.
		Modern jazz is served up care of reeds man Errol Buddle, who became a jazz legend in the 1950s through the Australian Jazz Quintet, while the Paul Grabowsky Trio is also making an appearance.
		More contemporary flavours come via Bernie McGann Trio, with Lee Gunness providing firework vocals with Ken Way's All Stars.
	rahapen.org /RAHA_news_danceb.htm (597 words)

	The Planet - 24 November 2005 - McGann
		He’s Australian: the artist formerly known as Bernie McGann, now billed as Bern McGann, & his group as McGann.
		A trio for several decades, the primary McGann unit is now a quartet with trumpeter Warwick Alder.
		Hispanic-tinged, genial, processional-dance-tinged jazz for Bern McGann’s alto sax, Warwick Alder’s trumpet.
	abc.net.au /rn/dailyplanet/stories/2005/1500560.htm (946 words)

	Alister Spence: Australian Jazz Pianist & Composer
		Over the years he has played with many of the finest musicians in Australia including Bernie McGann, Sandy Evans, Don Burrows, Dale Barlow, Peter O’Mara, Tony Buck and Phillip Slater.
		His talents as a writer have been well recognised with several compositions featuring on Bernie McGann’s 2001 Aria winning CD Bundeena.
		He has performed with many of the cornerstones of modern Australian music: The Necks, The Benders, Wizards of Oz, Clarion Fracture Zone, The Bernie McGann Trio, The Last Straw, Vince Jones, Alpha Centauri Ensemble, Jeannie Lewis, The Dynamic Hepnoptics, The Seymour Group, Tim Finn, Stephen Cummings and Wendy Matthews.
	www.alisterspence.com /bios.htm (699 words)

	The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
		VALLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL - The Bernie McGann Trio + Misinterprotato
		The Valley Jazz Festival cooks up a storm in a show tonight that features the cool Brisbane three-piece Misinterprotato and the excellent Bernie McGann Trio.
		McGann of course has long flown the flag for creative jazz with great distinction in Australia for some 40 years.
	www.jwcoca.qld.gov.au /02_whats_on/details.asp?e_id=180 (131 words)

	Jazz Australia :: Artists
		1960) has performed with many of the cornerstones of Australian music: The Benders, Clarion Fracture Zone, the Bernie McGann Trio, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vince Jones, Alpha Centauri Ensemble, the Mighty Reapers, the Seymour Group, Tim Finn, Stephen Cummings, and Wendy Matthews.
		Lloyd has also performed a number of solo improvisation concerts, something rarely seen on the double bass.
		Swanton appears on 60 albums, including several ARIA Award winners, and produced last year's Award winner, by Bernie McGann.
	www.jazz.org.au /directory/artists.php?ArtistID=203 (385 words)

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		The quintet held the Sunday afternoon residency at Balmain's famed Unity Hall Hotel for five years between 1988 and 1993 and many of Sydney's jazz greats came to both listen and sit in with the band on any given Sunday.
		Among them Bernie McGann, (the late) Maddy Young, Bobby Scott and Delilah.
		The band procured its name from the fact that the audience were asked to wear headgear of normal or outlandish variety to the gig with a bottle of champagne doled out to the most outlandish each week.
	www.mp3.com.au /Artist.asp?id=6960 (214 words)

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	ALM Australian Literature Resources - Geoff Page Contents page
		Geoff Page (b.1940) Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published sixteen collections of poetry as well as two novels, two verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann.
		He retired at the end of 2001 from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College in the ACT, a position he had held since 1974.
		Bernie McGann: A Life in Jazz (Kardoorair Press 1997)
	www.austlit.com /a/page/index.html (259 words)

	James Sherlock - Contemporary/Jazz Guitar
		James was the winner of the Ike Isaacs International Jazz Guitar Award (1997) and was nominated for the Freedman Fellowship in 2005.
		He has worked with a variety of bands and soloists, including Barney McAll, Scott Tinkler, Ken Edie, Dale Barlow, Sheila Jordan, Bernie McGann, Simon Barker, Brett Hirst, Ingrid Jensen, Steve Newcomb, Joe Chindamo, Allan Browne, Jim Kelly and Doug DeVries.
		As well as playing or recording with such diverse artists as British guitar virtuoso Martin Taylor, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Queensland Orchestra, Katie Noonan and New York film composer Howard Shore.
	www.jamessherlock.com /bio.html (232 words)

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