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"Leading Australian sax quartet cross pollinates with the didgeridu evoking the space and timeless landscapes of Australia"

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AVANT GARDE: Classical Avant-Garde, CLASSICAL: Contemporary

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Continuum Sax is Australia's most acclaimed saxophone quartet. Continuum Sax utilise the energy and excitement of the combination of saxophones, performing a unique repertoire that combines composed and improvised works.

Continuum Sax has undertaken various performance projects adn collaborated with a variety of different musicians. Most recently, Continuum Sax has presented concerts with; MATCH Percussion, sound artist Gail Priest, didgeridoo player Mick Davison, and with the Freedivers.

Continuum Sax have commissioned or inspired works from composers Stuart Greenbaum, Paul Stanhope, Jane Stanley, and Barry Cockcroft. They have released two CDs, CONTINUUM (2001) and ICON (2005).

Continuum Sax are:
Margery Smith
James Nightingale
Martin Kay
Jarrod Whitbourn

In Review:

âThis is a group that plays as one - a really beautiful, integrated sonorityâ¦â â From Review of Continuum CD, 24 Hours Magazine (Oct 2002).

'Continuum Sax do improvisation very well, as in Margery Smith's fond treatment of Sandy Evans's DPM. However, the ensemble is equally impressive when playing scored works, thus affording Barry Cockcroft's quartet p a powerful...advocacy and making Perry Goldstein's Motherless Child Variations, with its telling references to Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, so memorable.' - from review, 'Deft at melding sounds, with a score or without', Sydney Morning Herald, 24 October 2006.