ROBERT BURKE
• Performer • Composer • Educator • Researcher •
ROBERT BURKE
• Performer • Composer • Educator • Researcher •
ROBERT
BURKE
Performer • Composer
Educator • Researcher
ABOUT
Rob Burke is an internationally acclaimed performer and composer, Rob has released 12 CD’s under his own name and has composed and performed on a further 300 CD’s. His sensitive and balanced perspective has allowed Rob to traverse many different styles and this has, in part, been expressed as collaborative performances with international leaders in classical, jazz and experimental music. His embrace of many genres of music and the clear expression of his diversity in his role as an educator, researcher and performer, has given rise to a vibrant dialect that resonates through his students and also his performances.
Rob has recorded with George Lewis, Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava, Hermeto Pascoal, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby, Nasheet Waites, George Garzone, Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould, Debasis
Rob (Associate Professor) is currently convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University – Melbourne Australia and President of AJIRN (Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network)
His ongoing research focuses on issues relating to how we respond to improvised jazz: artistically, critically and personally. His work includes studying the processes and outcomes of music participation and music listening.
RELEASES
Rob has released 12 CDs under his own name whilst focussing on understanding and articulating what happens in the moment of improvisation from the perspective of practice-based artistic research.
Rob plays in a context of mostly free improvisation (jazz sensibility), investigating ego, agency, indeterminacy and choice having collaborated/recorded with George Lewis, Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava, Hermeto Pascoal, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey, Nasheet Waites, George Garzone, Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould, Johannes Weidenmueller, Debasis Chackroborty, Paulo Angeli, Tony Malaby and Richie Barshay.
ABOUT
Robert Burke is Co-ordinator of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University. An improvising musician, Rob has performed and composed on over 300 CDs and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and USA over the last 30 years. He has also released 12 CDs under his own name and has focused on creating research, educational and artistic ties with institutions, researchers and musicians in Italy, USA (New York), Japan and Brazil.
Rob has recorded with George Lewis, Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava, Hermeto Pascoal, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby, Nasheet Waites, George Garzone, Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould, Debasis Chackroborty and Paulo Angeli. Rob’s research is mainly focussed on practice-based artistic research, (jazz, improvisation and jazz pedagogy). Publications include co-edited book, Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music (Lexington) and currently co-writing (published later in 2018 Routledge) Experimentation in Jazz: Chasing Ideas.
RELEASES
Rob has released 12 CDs under his own name whilst focussing on understanding and articulating what happens in the moment of improvisation from the perspective of practice-based artistic research.
Rob plays in a context of mostly free improvisation (jazz sensibility), investigating ego, agency, indeterminacy and choice having collaborated/recorded with George Lewis, Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava, Hermeto Pascoal, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey, Nasheet Waites, George Garzone, Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould, Johannes Weidenmueller, Debasis Chackroborty, Paulo Angeli, Tony Malaby and Richie Barshay.
LATEST RELEASE
HEAD UNDER WATER takes the listener on an immersive journey. Tony Malaby, Robert Burke and Mark Helias bring to each track their own identity, experiences, expertise and egos. The musical decisions made by the ensemble in the moment of recording are central to the improvised interaction and the outcome. Tony Malaby searches for ‘the big idea’, Robert Burke and Mark Helias choose whether to match ideas or develop, introduce something new, play or not to play, to take a conciliatory or an oppositional position… to question. The resulting aural narrative demands that the audience let the music surround and flow over them—to actively listen to the interplay in each track, and engage with the intuitive emotions evoked. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York and mixed in Italy, HEAD UNDER WATER is a daring, instinctive and organic performance by three renowned jazz musicians.
LATEST
RELEASE
HEAD UNDER WATER takes the listener on an immersive journey. Tony Malaby, Robert Burke and Mark Helias bring to each track their own identity, experiences, expertise and egos. The musical decisions made by the ensemble in the moment of recording are central to the improvised interaction and the outcome. Tony Malaby searches for ‘the big idea’, Robert Burke and Mark Helias choose whether to match ideas or develop, introduce something new, play or not to play, to take a conciliatory or an oppositional position… to question. The resulting aural narrative demands that the audience let the music surround and flow over them—to actively listen to the interplay in each track, and engage with the intuitive emotions evoked. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York and mixed in Italy, HEAD UNDER WATER is a daring, instinctive and organic performance by three renowned jazz musicians.