The Lucky Ones

Tony Gould

Pianist and composer Tony Gould is one of Australia’s most respected musicians. His career has encompassed many styles of music, including jazz and other improvisatory forms, as well as traditional and contemporary classical. For the past 50 years he has remained at the forefront of music education in Australia.

Vincent Youmans

Vincent Youmans wrote lean Broadway songs built from short repeated phrases and subtle harmonic turns. Tea for Two, I Want to Be Happy and More Than You Know became lasting standards, still favoured by jazz players.

Bill Dobbins

Bill Evans

Bill Evans wrote jazz that other players keep returning to: Blue in Green with its spare lyric line, the open ground of Nardis, and the gentle Children's Play Song. The pieces sit among standards because they already behave like them.

Albert Hague

Steffan Linton

Bob Magnusson

John Williams

John Williams's theme from Schindler's List carries a long, aching melody that sits as naturally with cello and piano as it does on the original soundtrack. In these recordings it becomes a quiet hinge between film music, Jewish song and reflective chamber jazz.

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Imogen Manins

Imogen Manins is an uncommonly gifted cellist, with a formidable grasp of the standard classical repertoire as well as a wonderfully creative and innovative musical mind. This has led her to collaborations with a number of Australia’s most outstanding improvisers, and an exploration of new musical ground for cello.

Cover painting

Jacqui Grantford

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Martin Wright

Recording engineer and director of Move Records, Martin Wright has well over fifty years’ experience in the industry and has been widely recognised for the calibre of his recordings.