Masterful pianist and composer Stu Hunter has a career spanning 15 years and is currently touring and recording with acclaimed hip hop producer Katalyst and the sublime vocalist Katie Noonan. For Jazz:NOW Hunter will be joined by five of Australia’s most respected jazz musicians to perform new compositions that follow on from his debut 2007 album, The Muse. The result is a three-piece horn section of rare intensity, force and beauty, unleashed across a landscape of cascading harmony and simmering grooves.
Freedman Fellowship and ARIA Award winner, Andrew Robson has performed internationally with numerous jazz and world music groups at the Berlin and Chicago Jazz Festivals, Greenwich and Docklands Festival (London), WOMAD (Reading, UK), Bim Haus (Amsterdam), and prestigious jazz clubs in Germany such as Unterfaht (Munich) and Stadtgarten (Cologne).
Jazz Hall of Fame inductee, John Pochee, has an immediately recognisable style that is solid in the great jazz tradition but that is nevertheless warmly Australian. He has influenced the sound of Australian contemporary jazz by leading and playing in some of our most important groups including Ten Part Invention, The Last Straw, The Engine Room as well as playing in Bernie McGann’s Trio and Quartets.
The clouds of dense and extraordinarily heavy sound always part to make way for breathtaking moments of textural beauty, not to mention the virtuosic individuality of all three members of the Sydney based power trio, The Alcohotlicks.
Since forming in 2002 their rowdy and loyal following have seen the indie releases of Live In Shanghai and The Alcohotlicks Unplugged. The joyful spirit of their music excites, confronts and ultimately uplifts.