Errol Buddle Quintet

Australia’s most successful jazz export – John Shand, SMH.

SIMA is thrilled to have multi-instrumentalist and Australia/USA jazz legend Errol Buddle back to play on the program in these, his first performances with SIMA in six years.

With his unique ability to bring to his music a range of instruments – saxes, flutes, oboe, bassoon, clarinet – in a career spanning over 50 years, he has done thousands of sessions (movie soundtracks, TV shows, commercials) and is in much demand for jazz concerts and club dates.

One who deserves the title “living legend”, the reed virtuoso still has one of the great tenor sounds in Australian jazz as has been demonstrated in his numerous performances at major jazz festivals here and abroad.

He is renowned for being the first Australian to play regularly with the best American jazzmen, leading the Australian Jazz Quintet in concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall in the 1950s and pioneering the use of the bassoon in jazz.

In his early days in the USA, he played extensively in Detroit with Elvin Jones and Tommy Flanagan, while also playing with Frank Sinatra, Billie Holliday, Sammy Davis Jr., Roy Orbison, the Bee Gees and Nat ‘King’ Cole as well as the Australian Ballet and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.