The Thunder Trio – Sydney, NSW – 09/02/10

8:30pm- The Thunder Trio

Brendan Clarke - bass
Carl Dewhurst - guitar
Colin Hoorweg - drums

The Thunder Trio are coming to Jazzgroove! After wowing audiences at the Hollywood and the Hippo bar in 09, these guys are ready to rock the Excelsior. Combing groove classics, originals and jazz standards, The Thunder Trio put their groove stamp on whatever they play. Clarkey and Dewey have been playing together for well over a decade now and and are honored to be playing at 505 with their hero, mentor and Canberra resident, Colin Hoorweg.

Tuesday 16 February@505
10pm- Girth

James Loughnan - tenor sax
Glenn Doig - rhodes
Karl Dunnicliff - bass
Paul Derricott - drums

After a year's decommission Girth is back, with a fresh cargo of new tunes, as well as some that have been busy maturing deep in the hull. They will skirt the treacherous shoals of free jazz, grunge jazz, euro-trash and groove. The crew, buoyed up by a year of other musical voyages, are ready to go the whole nine yards, even if it means someone ends up scrubbing the poop deck.

8:30pm- Adam Pache Quartet

Adam Pache - drums
James Muller - guitar
Gerard Masters - keys
Jonathan Zwartz - bass

After four years in New York, Adam is now based in Rome, where he trades heirloom tomatoes for hard currency and vinifies himself daily. Currently a member of Steve Grossman's band, Adam can be found at airport duty free shops across Europe testing neck pillows and dousing himself in aftershave. He promises the world with this band.

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2010 Memberships
Dont forget to renew your JG membership next time you are down at a gig, or simply hop online and do it at the membership section of our website. We've added another new benefit in celebration of our move to 505, JG members can now get into Thur-Sat night gigs for concesion price.

Other Gigs:
Monday 8 February- Adam Pache Quartet
505, cnr Perry and Cleveland Streets Surry Hills
9pm, $10

Adam Pache - drums
James Muller - guitar
Gerard Masters - keys
Jonathan Zwartz - bass

After four years in New York, Adam is now based in Rome, where he trades heirloom tomatoes for hard currency and vinifies himself daily. Currently a member of Steve Grossman's band, Adam can be found at airport duty free shops across Europe testing neck pillows and dousing himself in aftershave. He promises the world with this band.

Wednesday 10 February- Girth
505, cnr Perry and Cleveland Streets Surry Hills
9pm, $10

James Loughnan - tenor sax
Glenn Doig - rhodes
Kar Dunnicliff - bass
Paul Derricott - drums

After a year's decommission Girth is back, with a fresh cargo of new tunes, as well as some that have been busy maturing deep in the hull. Skirting the treacherous shoals of free jazz, grunge jazz, euro-trash and groove. The crew, buoyed up by a year of other musical voyages are ready to go the whole nine yards, even if it means someone ends up scrubbing the poop deck.

Thursday 11th February- Cafe Carnivale Presents- Lolo Lovina
505, cnr Perry and Cleveland Streets Surry Hills
9pm, $18/12

Lolo Lovina plays an intoxicating brew of Gypsy mayhem! Claiming influences from Eastern European Gypsy music, French Chanson & Tango.Sydney born singer, Sarah Bedák-Rockliffe was surrounded by Gypsy music from an early age in her Hungarian Rromani family. When not working with Lolo Lovina, whirlwind violinist, Jess Randall fronts The Crooked Fiddle Band, which has featured at many festivals in Australia. Romanian accordionist Leonid Beshlei has played gypsy music & jazz across the Europe , USSR, Ukraine and Moldova.

Friday 12 February- Lily Dior
505, cnr Perry and Cleveland Streets Surry Hills
9pm, $18/12

Friday 12th February 505 presents: Lily Dior

“Dior presided like a Pagan Priestess” (John Shand, SMH)

This Friday we are excited to have a very dear friend of 505 Lily Dior make her 505 debut. Firmly established as one of Australia’s foremost Jazz and Soul singers Lily Dior has been thrilling audiences with her rich soulful voice since stepping onto the stage with the late great Jackie Orszaczky as one of “The Godmothers”

Since the release of her acclaimed ABC release ‘Invitation’, Lily and her band have been in demand for concerts at many of Australia’s leading jazz clubs and festivals and toured overseas to Japan, China and London. Lily will be joined by some of our funkiest guys around so get in early for this one.

featuring:
Lily Dior- vocals, Clayton Doley- organ, Alex Hewitson- bass, Jamie Cameron- drums

Friday 12th February- Alister Spence Trio
SIMA- Sound Lounge- cnr City Rd and Cleveland St
8.30pm, $20/15/12

This trio is one of Australia’s most original and exciting musical units.
Last year they released their fourth CD/DVD fit, hailed as ‘A massive breakthrough…enthralling music’ (John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald). Fit sees the launch of a new project that blends (or ‘fits’) texture, sound-scape, free improvisation and editing, while still delivering the strong melody and seemingly effortless interplay that are hallmarks of this longstanding collaboration.

Alister Spence (piano, samples) Lloyd Swanton (bass) Toby Hall (drums, glockenspiel)

Saturday 13 February- Phil Slater Quartet
505, cnr Perry and Cleveland Streets Surry Hills
9pm, $18/12

2003 Winner of the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz National Jazz Award
2002 Freedman Fellowship Winner
1997 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Award finalist

This week the Phil Slater quartet returns to 505, comprising of four of the countries most respected and talented musicians this gig is one for the diary. An evening of improvised music that fits perfectly in the intimate setting of 505. This quartet has a way of mesmerizing the listener, from lyrical to powerful these guys play with such focus, strength and beauty it’s impossible not to be swept away. So grab a couch and hang on to your hats cos you are in for a very special treat.

Featuring:
Phil Slater trumpet, Matt McMahon piano, Lloyd Swanton bass, Simon Barker drums

Saturday 13 February-Jex Saarelaht Quartet (Melbourne)
SIMA- Sound Lounge- cnr City Rd and Cleveland St
8.30pm, $20/15/12

Melbourne pianist-composer Jex Saarelaht, best known as the leader of a long-running trio, debuted his quartet with saxophonist Julien Wilson at the 2007 Wangaratta Jazz Festival. Since then the personnel has settled to include Jonathan Zwartz (bass) and Niko Schäuble (drums).

Piano solos developed so astutely as to suggest he improvises with the big picture in mind, as well as what we might call the ‘extreme present’. Whatever the case, ravishing lines routinely tumbled from the keyboard – John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald.

Jex Saarelaht (piano) Julian Wilson (sax) Niko Schäuble (drums) Jonathan Zwartz (bass)

Sundays- The Swinging Blades
Come work on your swing sunday afternoons at the Marrickville Golf Club.
FREE every sunday from 3.30 til 6.30 old school jazz. Wharf street Marrickville.

Aaron Flower- Guitar
Evan Mannell-Drums
Jane Irving- Vocals
Kim Lawson-Saxaphone
Zoe Hauptmann- Acoustic Bass

Plus Special guests.This week Tina Harrod- Vocals

Sundays in February- The Subterraneans
The Townhall Hotel- 326 King St Newtown, 9-9pm free

STEVE HUNTER: ELECTRIC BASS
JAMES MULLER: ELECTRIC GUITAR
JAMES HAUPTMANN: DRUMS
JAMES RYAN: SAXOPHONES

Special guests:
Feb 14 Dan Barnett
Feb 21 Jo Fabro
Feb 28 Warwick Alder

'This is what the fusion of Jazz and Rock always promised but rarely delivered: sophisticated improvising harnessed to raw power.' John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald