The Jazzlab

The stellar John Montesante Dectet appears at The Jazzlab featuring outstanding Jazz singers Tamara Kuldin & Craig Schneider.

Melbourne’s own Jazzlab Orchestra presses re-set on the big band tradition: creating visionary, original, genre-bending jazz music with a focus on diversity and inclusivity. Led by composer/arrangers Cheryl Durongpisitkul and Madison James Smith, the orchestra celebrates Melbourne’s next generation of instrumentalists. 

Ingrid James, an award-winning Jazz vocalist from Queensland, known for “moving gracefully between traditional jazz and soulful blues with a powerful, yet sultry vocal resonance”, is joining forces with musical colleagues from Prague, Libor Smoldas (guitar), “one of the fastest-rising talents on the Prague jazz scene”(The Prague Post)’ ,Jakub Zomer (hammond organ/voice), known for his “roaring organ solos” (Downbeat Magazine); and from Melbourne, celebrated drummer, Gideon Marcus. Together they will present a fun program of cool and hip swing and Bossa-novas, all set to the rich grooves and sounds of hammond organ, guitar, voice and drums. 

Internationally renowned pianist Donna Coleman is joined by a host of Australia’s finest musicians, Jazz and otherwise, for an evening of solos, ensembles, World Premieres, never-before-thought-of musical combinations, and Leap Year merrymaking.