NEWS

'Little Claps' by the Andrea Keller Quartet has won the Bell Award for Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Album 2008

2007 saw the release of 2 new CD's 'Little Claps' (Jazzhead)
Jazzhead records

and 'Footprints' the Wayne Shorter Project Andrea's debut solo album available through ABC Jazz.

"Andrea Keller has one of Australia's most consistently interesting musical minds."
Doug Spencer, August 2007

"A prayer of thanks seems appropriate. The meeting thirteen years ago of 20 year olds Eugene Ball (trumpet), Ian Whitehurst (tenor) and Andrea Keller (piano) has grown into a musical congregation of faith that has fulfilled musch hope and given us much to love."
Roger Mitchell, Herald Sun, Sunday August 19, 2007.

"visceral, lyrical..."
Downbeat August 2007.


Andrea Keller
b. 27th July 1973

Composer, pianist and improviser Andrea Keller is a leading light in Australian Contemporary music. Living in Melbourne, she performs with many ensembles at the forefront of the jazz scene and receives commissions from festivals and musicians throughout Australia.

She has released five CD’s as leader winning her two Aria Awards for Best Jazz Album (2002, 2003), 2 Bell Awards for Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Album (2003 , 2008) and was awarded the inaugural MCA/Freedman Foundation Jazz Fellowship (2001).

"one of the most original thinkers on the Australian scene... she has the priceless ability to think outside the square."
Review of 'Angels and Rascals' by Adrian Jackson, Rhythms, August, 2005.

"Pianist Andrea Keller is a major talent on the thriving Australian scene...
Apart from being an outstanding piano player, Keller has the gift for writing totally distinctive and engaging compositions. This recording stands as a marker of just how good Australian jazz is."
Review of 'Angels and Rascals' by Bev Stapleton, AllAboutJazz.com, January, 2006.

"One of this country's most daring and fascinating composers, she produces work that bristles with surprises, a powerful blend of European lyricism with space and improvisation."
Review of 'Angels and Rascals' by Leon Gettler, The AGE, May 5, 2005.