Christopher Young
Christopher Young is a Melbourne woodwind player and composer whose work centres on bass clarinet, with clarinet, saxophones and flute. He leads the Christopher Young Quartet in exploratory jazz and improvised music.
On Brood Groove (MD 3348) and Atmospheros (MD 3408) his originals and improvisations turn on the bass clarinet’s monophonic and multiphonic range, moving between atmospheric and melancholic writing, New Orleans-tinged clarinet, hard-bop motion and extended-technique baritone work.
The pieces draw on jazz, South Indian, Balinese and European colour, with space left for dramatic woodwind statements. He also contributed to the label’s fiftieth-anniversary collection Move 50 (MD 3450).
Performing as Christopher Young Quartet
A new collaboration with some of Christopher Young’s oldest collaborators — acoustic bassist Nick Haywood (from the Lewis and Young Ensemble) and guitarist Tom Fryer, with the addition of the great veteran drummer, Ted Vining. More about Christopher Young Quartet
Atmospheros
The Christopher Young Quartet presents ten new pieces by Young and the group, spanning atmosphere, hard bop and free collective improvisation.
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Brood Groove
"One of the most rewarding sessions I've recorded for Jazztrack. Maybe the stars aligned that day... the musicians really listening and responding to each other. It's music that surprises and explores."
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Compositions by Christopher Young also appear on
Move 50
Twenty-four Australian composers mark Move Records’ fiftieth year with short new works gathered on this commemorative disc.
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Christopher Young also appears on
Ambient Voice
Ambient Voice places Dean Frenkel’s haunting harmonic vocals over and within works by outstanding Australian composers, among them Mark Clement Pollard, George Dreyfus, Andrew MacGregor and Invention in Time.
Barefoot in the Sky
Barefoot in the Sky fuses ancient and contemporary practice: rhythmic and melodic, organic and electronic, choral and tribal. It moves through enough moods for several albums, in a vein the artists call ambient space-world jazz.