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: Bill Evans
Date/Time: 14 November 2021, 2.30pm – 4.30pm
House Band: Ayrton Foote (P), Scott Maynard (B), Mark Lockett (D)
Venue: Library Bar, Courtney Place, Te Aro
Striking Moments
“…that’s my way of preparation – to not be prepared. And that takes a lot of preparation!” – Lee Konitz
What does it mean to prepare to be unprepared? Lee Konitz’s deft paradox represents a challenge to the improviser: how can one practice and prepare for improvising, while simultaneously aspiring to spontaneity, newness and the unexpected in its performance?
Drawing on his recently completed Masters research, Jake Baxendale explores this idea through original compositions, jazz standards and free improvisation, with a brand new ensemble in this one-off performance for the Wellington Jazz Cooperative!
Jake Baxendale – Stricking Moment
Featuring: Jack Harré – trumpet, Phoebe Johnson – bass, Rick Cranson – drums and Jake Baxendale – reeds
Date: Thur 11 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: 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