Melbourne Jazz Co-op

The Nick Haywood Trio is one of Australia’s leading collaborative improvisation ensembles. The trio is known for taking simple themes and allowing complexity to unfold as a collective exploratory process. The trio is bassist Nick Haywood with pianist Colin Hopkins and drummer Niko Schäuble.

Open Home is a new ensemble, which offers an invitation to explore the ebbs and flows of life through the compositions of Shaun Rammers (tenor sax and clarinet), a Music graduate of WAPAA.

Bringing together four of Melbourne’s most prodigious young jazz artists, The Rest is Silence’s debut album, A Short Film,  explores melodically driven compositions against a backdrop of indie-rock, country, and electronica. Featuring siblings Flora Carbo (alto saxophone) and Theo Carbo (guitar) alongside long-time friends Isaac Gunnoo (double bass) and Maddison Carter (drums)

Callum G’Froerer is a trumpet player active between many musical genres - improvisation, commissioning new contemporary repertoire, and composition.Callum (trumpet and flugelhorn) is joined by Joseph O’Connor (piano), Sam Anning (bass) and James McLean (drumset).

Saxophonist Rob Burke (tenor sax & bass clarinet) and piano master Tony Gould, with their rhythm team of bassist Nick Haywood (now based in Tasmania, Hobart) and drummer Tony Floyd, have played together for more than 20 years, touring nationally and internationally. They will perform some new compositions, as well select works by jazz composers.

Led by trombonist and composer Scott van Gemert, the Unbroken Trio plays original music that focuses on the collective sound of the ensemble. | Stimulating pianist/composer Joe O’Connor, winner of the 2013 National Jazz Piano Award and recipient of the 2016  PBS Young Elder of Jazz Commis