Each week the session features compositions by a great jazz artist. The house band open with a couple of tunes and then musicians are invited up to join in.
Featured composer: Arthur Schwartz
Date/Time: 7 November 2021, 2.30pm – 4.30pm,
House Band: Louis Thompson-Munn (p), Daniel Yeabsley (b), Mark Lockett (d)
Venue: Library Bar, Courtney Place, Te Aro
As a regular member of the Rodger Fox Big Band, Royal New Zealand Air Force Band and Julie Lamb Outfit, as well as playing with many shorter projects including twice touring Europe with the JM Jazz World Orchestra, Frank Talbot is a stalwart of the local scene.
Having completed jazz and classical training at the New Zealand School of Music (as well as hobby playing heavy metal guitar), Talbot incorporates a range of styles and influences into his music. In the intimate setting afforded by the WJC he’ll be presenting a variety of exciting, emotional, intense and sombre moods including some brand new works accompanied by some of Wellington’s finest musicians.
Joining Frank will be Ayrton Foote (p), Phoebe Johnson (b) and Hikurangi Schaverien-Kaa (d)
“New Zealand produces many good tenor players and judging by Talbot’s confident performance, he will go from strength to strength” – John Fenton, Jazz Local 32
Frank Talbot Quartet
Date: Thur 4 November 2021, 7.30pm
Venue: Lovebite, 2 Forresters Lane
Price: Tickets available on Eventfinda.co.nz
Each week the session features compositions by a great jazz artist. The house band open with a couple of tunes and then musicians are invited up to join in.
Featured composer: Frank Sinatra
Date/Time: 31 October 2021, 2.30pm – 4.30pm,
House Band: Alex Bolton (g), Seth Boy (b), Mark Lockett (d)
Venue: Library Bar, Courtney Place, Te Aro
Three time winner of Jazz Composition of the Year award, Callum Allardice, presents his original music, including some fresh new compositions.
Callum Allardice Quarte
Featuring: Callum Allardice – Guitar, Leonardo Coghini – Piano, Johnny Lawrence – Bass, Hikurangi Schaverien- Kaa – Drums
Date: Thur 28 October 2021, 7.30pm
Venue: Lovebite, 2 Forresters Lane
Price: Tickets available on Eventfinda.co.nz
Each week the session features compositions by a great jazz artist. The house band open with a couple of tunes and then musicians are invited up to join in.
Featured composer: John Coltrane
Date/Time: 24 October 2021, 2.30pm – 4.30pm,
House Band: Ayrton Foote (p), Patrick Bleakley (b), Mark Lockett (d)
Venue: Lovebite, Forresters Lane, Te Aro
Each week the session features compositions by a great jazz artist. The house band open with a couple of tunes and then musicians are invited up to join in.
Sunday Sessions at the Library Bar
Featured composer: Herb Ellis
Date/Time: 17 October 2021, 2.30pm – 4.30pm,
House Band: Jamie Pye (g), Seth boy (b), Mark Lockett (d)
Venue: The Library Bar, 1/53 Courtenay Place, Te Aro
“Lily Rose Shaw is an up and coming artist in the Pōneke jazz scene, a graduate of the jazz programme at Te Kōki, NZSM who was singled out as one of the musicians who is “really shining . . . a great composer”. Lily has been gigging regularly around Wellington with bands such as OdESSA, Revulva, Chantal Claret and The Gallery and now has taken what she has learnt as a sideman to create her own project. Her original music is contemporary, steeped in jazz but with a modern R’n’B twist, and she leads the band with confidence as a multi-instrumentalist singing, playing tenor saxophone and flute. “
Joining Lily Shaw (saxophone, flute, vocals) is Phoebe Johnson (bass), Hikurangi Schaverien-Kaa (drums), and Hector McLachlan (keys)
Each week the session features compositions by a great jazz artist. The house band open with a couple of tunes and then musicians are invited up to join in.
Featured composer: Joao Gilberto
Date/Time: 10 October 2021, 2.30pm – 4.30pm,
House Band: Callum Allardice (g), Elijah Mulheron (b), Mark Lockett (d).
Venue: The Library Bar, 1/53 Courtenay Place, Te Aro
Each week the session features compositions by a great jazz artist. The house band open with a couple of tunes and then musicians are invited up to join in.
Featured composer: Thelonius Monk
House Band: Duncan Haynes (P), Daniel Yeabsley (B), Mark Lockett (D)
Date and time: Sunday, 03 Oct 2021, 2.30-4.30pm
Venue: The Library Bar, 1/53 Courtenay Place, Te Aro
COVID 2 Level 2 restriction apply.
Fresh from headlining at the 2021 Wellington Jazz Festival, Umar Zakaria is a Tui award-winning New Zealand bassist and composer filled with hope for the future. His music unites diverse musical traditions to inspire communication and cooperation across boundaries.
Umar has given performances across Europe, Asia and the USA alongside Myele Manzanza, Norio Maeda, Snorre Kirk and Ben Wendel among others. He is a student of legendary jazz bassists Cecil McBee and Lynn Seaton as well as NZ’s own Paul Dyne, and received the 1st runner-up prize at the BASS2014 International Jazz Bass Competition. He was named ‘Best Jazz Artist by Recorded Music New Zealand in 2018 and was awarded a scholarship to attend the renowned Banff International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music the following year under the artistic direction of Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey.
Having developed a reputation for emotionally stirring performances, Umar now seeks to share heartfelt original music with his trio to audiences across New Zealand and internationally, spreading a message of courage and unity through the powerful sound of the double bass.
The Umar Zakaria Trio features Duncan Haynes on piano and Luther Hunt on drums, presenting a vibrant programme of American jazz classics as well as original pieces based on Malay influences and Kiwi experiences.
Umar Zakaria Trio
Date: Thur 30 September 2021, 7.30pm
Venue: Lovebite, 2 Forresters Lane