Kwasi Bruni Afro Cuban Ensemble.
Kwasi Bruni is an Afro Cuban big band project led by Southern Cross University Contemporary Music Course Coordinator and bassist Dr Barry Hill and local Colombian musician Camilo Losada
The music of Kwasi Bruni celebrates the Afro Cuban improvised big band sound of the early 60s.
Lismore Jazz Club Annual General Meeting
ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS OF THE LISMORE JAZZ CLUB
Attached is your NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Thursday, 11 September 2025, 3 pm, in the table area in the Auditorium Gallery, 2nd floor, Lismore Workers Club, Keen Street, Lismore NSW 2480. The AGM will be followed by the first meeting of the new Lismore Jazz Club committee.
Fine Organ Combo
Pietro Fine and Dave Stephenson
Pietro Fine leads this fine band from his Hammond organ.
Dave Stephenson brings his skills as a trumpeter/trombonist as well as adding vocals.
Lucas Zorzo, just back from Europe, will be playing his enviably unique guitar style.
Ben Cox is one of those rare drummers who plays both sensitive and funky.
Hammond organs have a distinctive jazz sound. Pietro has to be the bass player as well as ac-companist, soloist and lead lines. The Hammond bass sound is a smooth mellow tone but the sound of his spinning Leslie speakers can make you feel like you're lifted and drifting in the air.
The repertoire includes originals from Pietro, Dave & Lucas. You can also expect rearrangements of pieces a century old or more, along with modern jazz classics and one by a recently departed great Australian musician and mentor.
De Ziah & Date
DE ZIAH & DATE TAKE THE CELLO AND GUITAR ON A NEW JOURNEY!
Experience the transcendent and deeply moving fusion of Celtic, Classical, Jazz, and World music genres.
Evans Robson Quartet
“OZ JAZZ ROYALTY” – Sydney Morning Herald.
Experience an electrifying afternoon of contemporary jazz led by two of Australia’s most acclaimed saxophonists, Sandy Evans and Andrew Robson, Evans’ powerful tenor sound and soaring soprano melodies combined with Robson’s great sense of groove and an uncanny instinct for melodic lyricism create a beautiful and engaging musical dialogue.
NOW2NOW
NOW2NOW - Sonic Art in the Present Tense. NOW2NOW is a witches brew of free jazz funk, typewriter chatter, bone-dry rock, acoustic poison clouds, and industrial kitsch, always driving forward, improvised, composed in real time. What does free jazz sound like when driven through the jazz- rock machine? And what does rock-jazz sound like in the particle accelerator of the free jazz matrix? NOW2NOW has the answer.
Kyle Watson’s Jazz Warriors
After recently relocating to his Queensland hometown of Toowoomba, long-time Northern Rivers jazz pianist and vocalist Kyle Watson returns to the Lismore Jazz Club on May 4th, 2025, with a powerhouse quintet of Northern NSW and South East QLD musicians.
The Subterraneans
This is what the fusion of Jazz and Rock always promised but rarely delivered: sophisticated improv.
Estampa
Estampa is a Brisbane based quartet that blends elements of world, folk, and jazz music. Their performances evoke the charm of Parisian streets, the passion of South American culture, and the haunting beauty of Swedish folk music.
Acid Bleed
Hailing from North Coast New South Wales, jazz band ACID BLEED play a mean blend of hot gypsy swing infused with a spicy latin groove. The repertoire spans gypsy to classic jazz standards and plucky and funky originals.
The Clarence Jazzmen. Warren Byrnes tribute
The Clarence Jazzmen are an institution of good-time jazz on the north coast. Originally called The Old Graftonians, they’ve had decades of playing great music, with gigs up and down the coast and tablelands.
Their repertoire draws from the songbooks that Australian jazz bands were expected to cover back in the day, popular show songs and jazz classics that have a timeless appeal.
The Parrot:Baartz Project
The Parrott:Baartz Project represent a powerhouse of international talent now centered in the Northern Rivers.
Individually acclaimed and world-renowned, the quartet, co-led by Nicki Parrott (bass/vocals) and Martha Baartz (sax/flute), culminates in an expression of both historical and modern perspectives for a “perfect mix” of original music with toe-tapping tunes from the American Songbook.
