Alister Spence

Alister Spence (born August 23, 1955 ) is an Australian jazz musician ( piano , composition ) of the Modern Creative , who is also active as a film composer .

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Spence attended the jazz course at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music . Then he studied in New York City with Cedar Walton , Andy LaVerne , Mulgrew Miller and Benny Green . In Australia he worked in the Ensembles Clarion Fracture Zone and Wanderlust around the saxophonist Tony Gorman , as well as with Jeremy Sawkins , Craig Walters and the Australian Art Orchestra . In 2000 he recorded the album Three Is a Circle with Lloyd Swanton (bass) and Toby Hall (drums) . More trio albums followed; two were nominated for the Australian music industry's ARIA Award for best jazz album in 2004 ( Flux ) and 2007 ( Mercury ). Since 2008 there has been a collaboration with Satoko Fujii , both in the Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe ( Imagine Meeting You Here ) and as a duo.

In the following years Spence u. a. with Andrew Robson , Carl Orr , Myra Melford and Phillip Johnston ( The Adventures of Prince Achmed ), Mark Helias , Andy Sheppard , Joe Williamson , Jim O'Rourke , Raymond MacDonald , Karraikudi Mani , Bernie McGann , Sandy Evans , Chris Abrahams , Don Burrows , Dale Barlow , Peter O'Mara , Tony Buck , Phillip Slater , Paul Capsis , Archie Roach and Ed Kuepper ( The Laughing Clowns ). In the field of jazz he was involved in 37 recording sessions between 1989 and 2017. In 2014, he was awarded the Australian Art Music Awards for Excellence in Jazz .

As a composer he wrote for the Australian Art Orchestra and the duo of Claire Edwardes / Amy Dixon. Alister also composed music for film and theater. His soundtrack for Ivan Sens's film Beneath Clouds was nominated for the Film Critics Award and the Australian Film Industry Award in 2002 ; he has also worked for Tom Zubrycki ( Molly and Mobarek ), Allan Collins ( Dhakiyarr Versus the King, Spirit Stones ) and Tom Murray ( Dhakiyarr Versus the King, In My Father's Country ).

Discographic notes

Flux (Rufus, 2003), with Lloyd Swanton, Toby Hall
Mercury (Rufus, 2006), with Lloyd Swanton, Toby Hall
Alister Spence, Myra Melford: Everything Here Is Possible (2010)
Alister Spence / Raymond MacDonald: Stepping Between the Shadows (Rufus Records, 2012)
Not Everything But Enough (2016), with Lloyd Swanton, Toby Hall
Alister Spence / Satoko Fujii: intelsat (2017)
Satoko Fujii: Bright Force: Kira Kira (2017), with Natsuki Tamura , Ittetsu Takemura

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Spence, Alister
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	23rd August 1955

[1] Entry (AllAboutJazz)

[lord-2] Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 12, 2019)

[3] Australian pianist Alister Spence wins Award for Excellence in Jazz (ABC)

[4] Alister Spence in the Internet Movie Database (English)