Soaring at Dawn
Fiona Burnett Soprano Saxophone
Fiona Burnett Trio Featuring Ben Roberston double bass and David Jones drum kit and percussion and the Silo String Quartet.
ABC Recordings
Sound Inspirations on the Atmospheres
series from ABC Classics: music intended to create an
atmosphere of beauty, calm and balance.
Fiona Burnett and David Jones are free spirits of the
Australian music scene, joining together here for a
spontaneous exploration of their instruments. Fiona’s
saxophone can emulate an extraordinary variety of
sounds, from the human vioce, to the Indian shehnai,
to the shakuhachi, the oboe, or birdsong. David’s
percussion brings an equal versatility to the
collaboration – his is a talent which cannot be neatly
pigeonholed.
Sound Inspirations takes listeners on a journey
through a meditational soundscape. The tracks blur
the lines between composition and improvisation:
David and Fiona allow sounds to blossom as the
moment suggests. The result is a flowing, gentle
series of works which have their own unique identity
yet merge seamlessly into over an hour of beautiful
music.
Soprano saxophonist Fiona Burnett has a strikingly original and expressive musical voice. Her dynamic and virtuosic improvisations have wowed listeners on her many CDs and Imagine with the Fiona Burnett Electric Band will continue this practice. Featuring rearrangements of popular songs and modern day standards. Fiona Burnett soprano saxophone, Leonard Grigoryan guitars, Christopher Hale acoustic bass guitar, Andrew Gander Drums
Counterpoint Fiona Burnett soprano saxophone Ben Robertson double bass David Jones Drums Genre: Jazz Date Released: 2005 Brilliant Melbourne-based jazz saxophonist Fiona Burnett’s album Counterpoint transverses different moods and colours, like light changing on a landscape. This album of largely improvises pieces takes inspiration from Bach in particular, but infused with Fiona’s very special touch. She says of the album: “With counterpoint I set out to make a recording that represented my current musical development and influences as an improvising musician in this place in time. A recording that did not shy away from my own sense of truth and one that was mindful of the current moods that I sensed prevail around me in the world. My concept for this recording was working on a number of different levels from the outset. Therefore the term counterpoint, meaning two or more ideas happening simultaneously appeared to speak volumes about what I had set out to achieve creatively.”