Hue Blanes Trio Invites: Phil Noy

Hue Blanes Trio Invites is a night curated by Michael Tortoni and Blanes himself. The framework idea is for The JazzLab’s own working house trio on the first Tuesday of every month, the Hue Blanes Trio, featuring Danny Fischer and Sam Anning, to work with their favourite feature artists, primarily being horn players in this case.

The feature artists Phil Noy is an internationally renowned player but we are especially lucky to have them based right here in Melbourne (for the moment).

Expect deeply personal works, both original and arranged with each solo artist leading the journey. At the beginning of Spring this Quartet will play new and old music, diving into the depths of both simplicity and complexity combined with a focus on melody.

So come and get cozy, and bring your ears and your eyes, you’re going to need them.

Hue Blanes Trio:

Hue Blanes – Piano

Danny Fischer – Drums

Sam Anning – Bass

Featuring Phil Noy on Saxophone!

Phil Noy

Phil Noy began his rich musical life in Tasmania. At the age of 18 he moved to Brisbane where he studied the Alto Saxophone with the legendary Tony Hobbs.

Inspired by the late Tony Hobbs, Phil developed an endless desire to explore the sound of the Saxophone. This in turn has led to an unexpected career as a Saxophone Technician. This was recently acknowledged with an invitation to Paris, France to work with the world-renowned Selmer Paris saxophone company.

As well as performing alongside some of the world’s greatest musicians, Phil has proven to be the woodwind and brass technician of choice for some of the world’s finest players.

Phil was awarded second place in the prestigious Wangaratta Jazz Festival saxophone competition and aside from being a highly active freelance Melbourne musician, recent musical collaborations include: leading the current incarnation of the Phil Noy Quartet, The Allan Browne Quintet, The Julien Wilson Quartet, Los Cabrones, The Hoodangers, Noisy Jamama, and The Bennetts Lane Big Band. In 2006, Phil performed with The Harry Connick Jr Big Band.

Nominated for The Melbourne Age’s Top 100 Most Influential Melbournians for the Arts/Music, Phil is also a member of the globally successful funk/soul outfit The Bamboos.

Hue Blanes

Born in 1984, Melbourne, Hue grew up in the small Victorian town of Healesville, where he began his musical life playing local fetes, concerts and festivals. He received a scholarship to study at the Victorian College of The Arts Secondary School (VCASS), and graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Music Performance and the prestigious Billy Hyde Music Prize for outstanding achievement.

Hue’s teachers have included some of Australia’s finest musicians – Bob and Steven Sedergreen, Andrea Keller, Tim Stevens, Tony Gould, and most recently Fred Hersch and Jason Moran.

His career has been characterised as not fitting into a box. He has been involved in a myriad of genres and musical projects, all with the ultimate purpose of improving his playing and understanding of music. He writes jazz and classical music, tragicomic songs about love, dying, and world conspiracies, and plays jazz standards, classical scores and spiritual hymns he finds at second-hand bookstores.

Hue has played at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) for four consecutive years, from running his own projects to collaborating with other artists. At this year’s MIJF, he premiered ‘Things that have been said’, as part of being awarded the 2017 Young Elder of Jazz Award.

In 2016, he received a commission from Melbourne ensemble PLEXUS to compose a piece for piano, violin and clarinet. This new work ‘The Sun, the Moon and the Planets (2016)’ premiered in PLEXUS: Propulsion on 6 December 2016 at the Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre.

He received multiple 2016 Green Room nominations for his comedy show ‘Hue Blanes and the Moon’ directed by Travis Cotton. The show premiered at the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and went on the road to the 2016 Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

In 2017, Hue premiered ‘Blow the man down’, a work for baritone and piano commissioned by the Boroondara Arts Council. This song cycle was written in the traditional Lieder opera style to explore themes of loneliness, longing and the miraculous mundanity of being human.

Hue was the winner of the 2018 Lucerne School of Music International Jazz Piano competition. Currently based in the Netherlands, Hue is expanding on his previous work around the musicality of language. Hue is signed to Pound Records.

Ticketing Information

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• Online Ticket Price: Concession – $25 / General Admission – $30
• Door Ticket Price: Concession – $30 / General Admission – $35