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MACE FRANCIS ORCHESTRA
"These layered compositions and scoring convey colour, atmosphere and movement far more effectively and with greater interest than the stock standard arrangements often heard from big bands. Francis, understandably, has attracted international interest with his outstanding orchestra and compelling compositions."
John McBeath - The Weekend Australian
"Mace Francis and his ubiquitous orchestra are a dinky-di national treasure. Mace's name can rightly be spoken in the same rarefied breath as giant jazz genius Paul Grabowsky, whether we're talking composition, or orchestration. The MFO's 13 'pieces' are much more than the sum of its parts! You haven't heard how brilliantly bent a big band can be, until you've heard the MFO."
Lloyd Bradford (Brad) Syke - Australian Stage Online
"Mace Francis deserves recognition as a big band leader with his own vision and his own sound."
Bill Donaldson - Cadence Magazine - www.cadencebuilding.com
"His themes are melodically pleasing and rhythmically strong. Francis has definite goals in mind, and has assembled a first class ensemble to help him reach them."
Jack Bowers - allaboutjazz.com
“Lyrical, beautifully-textured, unrushed…
a little-big-band that sounds bigger than its twelve-member-strength.”
Doug Spencer – Weekend Planet – ABC Radio National
"This is a very auspicious start for a great new band and the begining of a long journey for and excepional new talent - Mace Francis"
Ed Partyka
"new compositions in jazz and improvised music is alive and in very good health in this country and Mace is leading the charge into the future. I fret less knowing that the future is in the very best of hands"
Graeme Lyall AM (M.Mus.)
Article from the Greek Jazz Magazine Jazz & Tzaz
  
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THE HOUNDS
“The Hounds have succeeded in producing an album capable of charming even the most sceptical listener: Bell End Blues draws on the oldest of jazz styles to create new and memorable music in a way that gives The Hounds an authenticity all of their own.”
Ben Craig-Wadham – Perth Jazz Review
Oh, joy! A youthful band with a ‘traditional’ line-up, mostly their own compositions and no vocals! The writing is professional and the arrangements are just tight enough without curbing the impetuosity of youth on the rampage.”
Ron Spain – JazzScene
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