Ten Part Invention

Ten Part Invention: Live at Wangaratta

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2007

"Bittersweet, according to Webster, is anything that is “pleasant yet painful. And that is an apt description of Live at Wangaratta,, taped at the Jazz Festival bearing that name by the east Australian ensemble Ten Part Invention during a concert on the last day of October, 1999. All of the music for the occasion was written by the group's pianist, Roger Frampton, who was dying of an inoperable brain tumor. His mates knew it, of course, and poured their hearts ...