Now in its third year, the Brisbane International Jazz Festival's 2015 programme (3-8 June) will attract amazing talents from Norway, Poland, South Korea and Japan while showcasing the best, local talent.
With a focus on both innovation and accessible programming, providing a feast for both jazz aficionados and those looking to open their minds to one of the world’s most exciting genres, the 2015 BIJF will feature The Tord Gustavsen Quartet from Norway, Poland’s Artur Dutkiewicz Trio and South Korea’s Near East Quartet (the latter two making their Australian debut at the festival).
“The Brisbane International Jazz Festival is really helping put Brisbane on the map as a new world music city,” Artistic Director Lynette Irwin says.
“It’s not just about big names and it’s not just about navel gazing, it’s about celebrating jazz in all of its forms and really providing a smorgasbord of options for the whole of Brisbane to embrace the love of jazz, which those of us in the music community are lucky enough to experience year-round!”
Other festival highlights include: Japan’s Hiroyuki Minowa Trio – from Takatsuki City – will perform with Toowoomba artists Bruce Woodward and Melissa Forbes in a special collaboration that brings together sister cities in creativity; while Cairns Indigenous jazz singer Wilma Reading will collaborate for the first time with the Andrew Butt Trio.
The 2015 event will tip its hat to Brisbane’s jazz roots, with an installation celebrating Peter Hackworth’s ‘Primitif’ Café’, the place for young hipsters, artists and socialites to be in Brisbane from 1957 to its closure after the flood of 1974.
Brisbane International Jazz Festival Programme Highlights
• Tord Gustavsen Quartet (Norway)• Artur Dutkiewicz Trio (Poland)
• Near East Quartet (South Korea)
• Hiroyuki Minowa Trio (Japan) + special guests Bruce Woodward (guitar) and Melissa Forbes (vox)
• Wilma Reading meets Andrew Butt Trio (QLD)
• Berardi, Foran, Karlen (QLD)
• Dale Barlow (NSW)
• EMO (Enthusiastic Musicians Orchestra) (QLD)
• The Primitif Requests the Pleasure (QLD)
• Mal Woods Bowery Hot 5 + Jam Session
• Lateo (QLD)
• Andrew Shaw Quartet (QLD)
• Steve Newcomb - piano (QLD) and Angela Davis - sax (QLD/NY)
• John Reeves Trio (QLD)
• Rohan Somasekaran Duo (QLD)
• Paula Girvan Duo (QLD)
• Out of Abingdon (QLD)
• Mark Pradella Band (QLD)
• Duo Ras Dashen (QLD)
