Dave Wilson presents his latest project of original music featuring his performance on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet in an ensemble joining his quintet with a string quartet. Growing up in the Chicago area, building his career in Los Angeles, and working as a performer and researcher in eastern Europe, Dave's music flows out of his experience in styles of jazz, popular music, and beyond. During his doctoral studies at UCLA, Dave studied under the mentorship of legendary jazz composer…

Always a popular concert for the Manawatu Jazz & Blues Festival, the 101 Lab Band is a 17-piece guitar orchestra run by Kevin Downing who is an internationally recognised guitar educator. The band plays a mixture of jazz and blues and has a reputation for backing some of the world’s greatest jazz and blues guitar players and singers. Some of the tunes being played are also written by Grammy nominated artists especially for the band. Running for 32 years, the…

The Jac is back! A year on from the online release of their third studio album A Gathering, the high-octane modern jazz octet is reforming in 2021 to tour Aotearoa once again, with a follow up album: Walking Spirits. Tūī, one of the titles from A Gathering, was awarded the APRA NZ Best Jazz Composition award in 2020. The Jac have headlined the Wellington Jazz Festival and performed throughout Aotearoa, Australia and South Korea. Members include Wellington jazz stalwarts Jake…