Some Of Two Parts at Johnston St Jazz, 81 Johnston St Annandale

Featuring:
Loretta Palmeiro – Soprano Saxophone
Mark Isaacs – Piano

Built on a jazz/contemporary classical bedrock and with folkloric elements, Two Parts mimic and play, complement and contradict, create and evolve in real-time composition. Musical qualities of the Iberian Peninsula such as flamenco and fado are also visited. What results can be brash, delicate, passionate or furious. But this is just the beginning…

Loretta is the consummate saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. An Australian Arts Council recipient, co-founder of the Spyglass Gypsies, and director of Alma Orquestra. Loretta plays with Mara, the Divergence and Sydney Jazz Orchestras, the Australian Symphony Orchestra, and is a casual musician with the QSO. Like the Isaacs, Loretta’s studies in music originated in the classical hemisphere and have been coupled with an explorative passion for improvised music.

Devastatingly accomplished pianist and composer Mark Isaacs has been exploring the spirit of “duende”, the dark and soulful current that can run through even the most animated music. In meeting and playing spontaneous inventions with creatively versatile saxophonist Loretta Palmeiro he found a like-minded soul and a spirited duo was born.

Some of Two Parts perform all original compositions by Mark and Loretta. With five years in the making this exciting duo will take listeners on a thrilling journey as they paint time with their new sounds.