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Redleaf

HILARY GEDDES QUARTET

Released 3 April 2026

Hilary Geddes

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A beautifully balanced ensemble jazz record built upon lyricism, trust and quiet adventurousness, shaped by four musicians listening at the highest level.​​

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Redleaf brings together four of Australia's most compelling younger jazz voices, each already recognised for a distinct musical identity. Guitarist and composer Hilary Geddes has become one of the country’s most admired modern jazz writers, known for balancing melody with sophisticated harmonics. Saxophonist Matthew Harris brings a fluid, expressive voice shaped by straight-ahead jazz and exploratory improvisation; pianist Alex Inman-Hislop contributes harmonic sensitivity and structural patience and bassist Max Alduca provides the grounding pulse - subtle,  alert and responsive. Not simply a leader-plus-accompanists project, Redleaf is a genuine collective, making chamber jazz around trust, restraint and shared authorship.​The result is a record that is intimate in scale, but rich in emotional and compositional depth, with Hilary Geddes’ writing at the centre of gravity. Her compositional voice has always understood that sophistication works best when it remains transparent, and these pieces move with that same elegant logic: harmonically detailed, but never crowded; lyrical without sentimentality. 

There are echoes here of ECM’s chamber-jazz elegance and the lyrical modernism of players like Bill Frisell or Kurt Rosenwinkel, but Redleaf never feels derivative. Its strength lies in its local specificity: Australian contemporary jazz at its best, unhurried and deeply attentive.

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