Phil Slater & Matt McMahon perform Background Music Live from Melbourne Recital Centre

Multi-award-winning jazz artists Phil Slater and Matt McMahon wield a supreme ability to strip music back to its bare bones, while crafting a soundworld of immense power and emotion.

Outstanding artists in Australia’s music scene, Slater and McMahon have performed and recorded with a wide range of Australian and international artists, including Archie Roach, Peter Sculthorpe and Lou Reed. The artists’ intuitive bond, cultivated over decades of shared performance history, brings impeccable clarity to their work as a duo.

The force of Slater’s ravishing trumpet playing, combined with McMahon sensitive and crystalline piano is a triumph. This exclusive Melbourne performance featured their newest works and original interpretations of classic jazz standards.

‘This recording is supported by The Peggy and Leslie Cranbourne Foundation.

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