Some Upcoming dates 2024:
I’m working on an exciting new solo piano album with Charlie Tait, electronics and effects, due for release very soon. Stay tuned!
For my French fans, thank you for your support during the recent tour to France. The sold out concerts and performances at Le Barbizon, Le Dissident, and more were hugely successful and wouldn’t have been possible without your support, passion and energy.
Recent concerts have been at Bennelong, Sydney Opera house, Huberts Supper Club, Sydney, Le Salon, Claires Kitchen, Foundry 616 with Sandy Evans and Lloyd Swanton, and in Canberra, at Jazzhaus, Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Also the Orange Winter Jazz festival 2023, with Lloyd Swanton and Tessie Overmyer, still resonates!We hope to return there at its next appearance in 2025.
It was equally fantastic to play in the beautiful space at Phoenix Central Park on the superb Fazioli with the Astrolabe quartet. What a great venue!
New work The Outsider has been premiered at Marys Underground and Foundry 616 to rave reviews:
“The more ambitious the project the more Chris Cody rises in stature.”
“One able to range through fields of jazz, North African/Middle Eastern deserts, free improvisation and material that might be considered more filmic or programmatic.”
“rhythmically shape-shifting…creative… thrilling”
“Chris Cody’s piano solo exemplified his capacity to combine impressionism and expressionism in equal measure”
“Cody crowned Alone with a solo of impeccable architecture.” – The Outsider, John Shand, SMH
This work has been performed around Australia and also in Europe to marvellous audience response to the emotions and themes conveyed.
Reviews of Astrolabe:
“Enthralling tribute to French explorer…startlingly effective music” – Sydney Morning Herald
“Joyous and up-tempo…beautifully meditative…sublime…wonderful…a thrilling musical voyage” – Loudmouth Magazine
“One of the hottest tickets of Autumn” – Spectrum, SMH
Five Stars: “a vibrant and exciting musical odyssey … excellent compositions … meticulously performed” Barry O’Sullivan, Fine Music Magazine
“Four stars: fascinating…an exotic soundscape…exceedingly gifted” The Australian, April 11 2020
“It’s as if new instruments are being devised by the minute …simply absorb the enthralling music … even more notable is the coherence and thoughtfulness of the composing as we journey across this new musical world.” John Shand, SMH July 17 2020
“Absolutely fascinating music and story” – Philip Adams, ABC
“A beautiful and original suite of music “ – Andrew Ford, The Music Show, ABC
“Not My Lover” (Wave15001) is still selling well, available in all good record stores, via this website, Bandcamp.com and elsewhere online. Its been Cd of the week on ABC jazz, and has been broadcast around Australia on ABC, SBS, 3RRR, PBS, Eastside, 2MBS, Fine Music, and extensively in France and Europe. Its been getting very positive responses and feedback.
THE CRITICS SAY:
“A piano style that enthuses, is luminous and breathes… a singing right hand… a masterpiece…very inspired…a fine and solid quartet and especially a remarkable pianist ” Jazz Hot, Serge Baudot, France
“You can feel the ebb and flow of the city’s life running through his fingertips as he plays” John Fenton, Auckland NZ
“You feel a particular cosmopolitanism seeping through the music: jazz colliding with European sensibilities and France colliding with African ones. Cody is an equally sophisticated composer and pianist who likes to create mood-based pieces and solos in which a touch of ambiguity or mystery compounds the interest. Tenor saxophonist Karl Laskowski highlights the ambiguous elements with his dry sound and fine sense for weighting a solo, so evident on the pretty Pop It. Bassist Brendan Clarke and drummer James Waples play with a restraint that deepens the music’s shadows (rather than adding garish colour), and this helps Cody to generate a striking luminosity from the piano’s upper register. The cross-cultural rendition of I Love Paris is especially vivid, both musically and as a depiction of the City of Light as it now is.” SMH John Shand Australia
“Cody works with flair and sensitivity” The Australian
“a very solid and satisfying disc… a fast, happily frantic dance… top flight musicians… the piano suggests both abandon and contemplation… his playing is often funky with a modern boogie or shuffle feeling to it” John Clare, Loudmouth
AN ARTICLE IN QANTAS INFLIGHT MAGAZINE:
“He has earned a reputation as one of the best pianists in the city, playing alongside Rhoda Scott and Glenn Ferris (trombonist for the late Frank Zappa and Stevie Wonder).
His jazz skilfully fuses modern, classical and North African influences, and he can be found performing in some of the best jazz venues including Caveau des Legendes and Duc des Lombards.”
Qantas article This is the PDF of the article on the Qantas website. Thanks Qantas!
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