Bassist Nick Haywood has been developing several projects recently and he is excited to announce that Big Guitar is the latest. The band features Nick alongside guitarists Fran Swinn and Geoff Hughes and drummer Sam Bates. Big Guitar is a continuation of Nick's long term obsession with developing highly engaged, deep listening groups that connect through...
Tripataka return to JazzLab with a fresh new collaboration. The focus is on Afro-Cuban inspired grooves, with a percussive persuasion driven by Salvador Persico in the engine room. With new repertoire that navigates jazz and its intersections with multiple traditions, expect Tripataka’s signature rhythmically-charged layers with bold harmony and guttural melodic utterances. Adrian Sherriff -...
One of Australia’s most distinctive jazz composers, Johannes Luebbers explores deep orchestral colours to uncover the connective tissue between various musical styles, pushing genre boundaries and discovering new relationships between them. Celebrating ten years since first coming together, his multi-award-winning dectet debuts their complete 10x10x10 project – Other Worlds and Divide and Conquer. Featuring ten...