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About Me

I am a jazz guitarist based in Sydney, where I have been performing professionally for eight years. At Southern Cross University I began my musical education with Jim Kelly, to whom I am deeply grateful for his dedication to teaching and infectious passion for music. Currently I am completing a degree at The Sydney Conservatorium where I have had the privelege of studying with Paul MacNamara, Matt McMahon, and Gordon Brisker among notable others.
To date I have a swag of compositions I plan to record for an album with 'my' quartet, MCsquared. Other groups I have associations with are:
The Rhino Factory Big Band - a hard swinging extravaganza on a grand scale (maybe that's the only scale extravaganzas come in, oh well)

Kaleidophone

- a quartet inspired by Miles Davis and Jerry Bergonzi, co-led by tenor saxophonist Dan Rorke

Lidofaneski

-(or Eski for short) an electronic/live instrument ensemble betwixt composed melody, beats, and free, textural, often dramatic, explorations

Emerald City

- a live Drum and Bass outfit featuring the tunes of producer Ghost Solaris
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Member Since: 7/25/2007
Band Members: MC squared quartet appearing on player is :

Karl Dunnicliff - bass
Nick Bowd - sax
Paul Derricott - drums

Influences: The photos in my background are by
Mersades Malone
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Slab

23/6well, it has been a wierd day and this iswhere i nicked the title from...gold, pure gold 17/6/08 here i shall put my thoughts in progress-i tire of dancing alone.it'll all be awkward and...
Posted by Matthew Crane on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:34:00 PST

Scillinger and Pentatonics in Jazz Improvisation (pt III)

Conclusion The development of jazz involves a great diversity of approaches to harmony. Educational texts reflect this in their in their differences of terminology, foci, and in presentat...
Posted by Matthew Crane on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:42:00 PST

schillinger and pentaonics in Jazz Improvisation (pt II)

(SSMC and Pentatonics ptII) Melodic Figuration (leading tones) "Book Five Special Theory of Harmony, Chapter 20, Melodic Figuration The technique of melodic figuration consists mainly of the p...
Posted by Matthew Crane on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:38:00 PST

Schillinger and Pentatonics in Jazz Improvisation

A Schillingerian Look at Pentatonics in Jazz Improvisation &nbs...
Posted by Matthew Crane on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:34:00 PST

dad would say

I have one of those dads whos' an ideas man and he doesnt mind sharing. most of em are pretty fucken sound tho. he'd say " there should fruit trees in every median strip" and "roofs of buidings s...
Posted by Matthew Crane on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:21:00 PST

lyrics

i've taken to blogging my fav lyrics of the mo, this is from an album 'Meddle' by Pink Floyd, one of my all time favourites, formative stuff, used to scare the shit out of us as kids-dad thought that ...
Posted by Matthew Crane on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:26:00 PST

Preludes by T.S.Eliot

T. S. Eliot Preludes I The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. ...
Posted by Matthew Crane on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:24:00 PST

recital justification

Semester II Recital November 2007Bachelor of Music (Honours) Jazz Performance (Guitar)MATTHEW CRANEFeaturing Karl Dunnicliff Bass Paul Derricott Drums Daniel Rorke Bass Clarinet, Tenor saxophone...
Posted by Matthew Crane on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:17:00 PST

ligeti

Post-modern analysis questions the linearity of history, and the presumption of coherent successive progress of ideas in all spheres of human activity. The questions it posed at its conception are as ...
Posted by Matthew Crane on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:10:00 PST