Anton Delecca Quartet
 
Band Members:
 Anton Delecca - Saxophone
Matt Clohesy - Bass
Mark Fitzgibbon - Piano
David Beck - Drums

  CD's:
 Anton Delecca Quartet - Flow
( available on Newmarket Music)
Music Samples: The Operator & Unification
  Biography:
 Anton Delecca formed this group in mid 1998 after returning from a year in Sydney. The band plays original material written by Delecca with the occasionl jazz standard thrown in for good measure. Due to his eclectic taste in music Anton wanted to form aband with musicians who would be comfortable playing different styles of music and who wouldn't be restricted to straight-ahead jazz. The band's influence include Jazz, Latin, African, ECM and Funk. The band performs regularly at Bennetts Lane, Melbourne Australia and each member of the group is kept busy as a freelance musician in Melbourne. In 1999 they recorded for Jim Mcloed's Jazztrack on ABC Classic M Radio. In January 2001 they performed to a packed room at the Jazz Lab as part of the MelbourneInternational Jazz Festival. In September 2001 they released their debut album 'Flow' at Bennetts Lane, Melbourne. Available through Newmarket Music and Benetts Lane.
In 2000 Anton Delecca spent two months in New York studying with Dave Liebman, Chris Potter, George Garzone nd Joel Frahm. In 2001 he performed with American saxophonist Odean Pope [Max Roach Quartet] at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. He recorded with trumpeter aul Williamson's Quintet on their debut album entitled 'Non Consensual Head Compression', availale through Newmarket Music and Bennetts Lane. He spent two separate months in Hong Kong performing as featured jazz artist with several local and internationalgroups there. In February 2002 he performed with New York based pianist Sean Wayland as part of his Australian tour. In early 2002 he recorded with the Paul Williamson Quintet on their second album entitled 'Talk It Up', also available through Newmarket Muic and Bennetts Lane.

  Press Quotes:
 "It’s been a busy time for Delecca, one of Melbourne’s leading young tenor players. Les than two years ago he was studying in New York with some top players, and last year he was gigging abroad as well as turning up in places such as the Wangaratta Festival to play with headlining US guest, Odean Pope. He also launched this debut CD with his quartet and gave support on trumpeter Paul Williamson’s album (see below). It says something of his standing now that his quartet boasts some of our best musicians – Mark Fitzgibbon (piano), Matt Clohesy (bass) and Dave Beck (drums) are among the most recorded musicians in Melbourne these days. This project is solidly in their camp. Built around the luscious tone and fluid, boppish lines of Delecca’s playing, the quartet is a mainstream jazz fan’s delight, sounding vital and fresh and invested with classic values of cohesion and drive. There is an Afro-Cuban tinge to The Operator (a tour de force by Beck and Fitzgibbon), a sublime rendition of the Bourke/van Heusen classic “But Beautiful” (all the other tunes are by Delecca), and a couple of forays on soprano sax to back his claim. This is a confident and classy album, genuinely creative even while firmly situated within known territory."
Shane Nichols, All-About-Jazz.com
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