Vivid Sydney

Big public events are always a great thing to be a part of, so Sydney Jazz Collective was stoked when we were asked to perform at Grosvenor Place over a series of evenings as part of the Vivid Sydney Festival. The festival is a festival of lights, music and ideas and runs across various venues in Sydney for just over three weeks.

We performed on the piazza at Grosvenor Place in the CBD. A number of different vocalists from our band joined us, each with their own style. We performed a number of different styles over the evenings including: Motown Soul and Jazz, New Orleans Funk and Jazz, Bossa Nova, World Music and Jazz as well as New York Jazz.

Amy Ren of Grosvenor Place says “Just want to say a big Thank You for working with us to deliver the Vivid project. Please extend our thanks to your fantastic musicians. We all enjoyed your seven nights of beautiful performance and it certainly helped to bring a great vibe to piazza on the Vivid nights”.

If you’re looking for some live music at your next event, please contact us here.

 

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ABC Radio Interview

Interview on ABC Radio this morning – discussing our upcoming tour, regional touring, live music.

Hope you enjoy!

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International Sony TV Commercial

We’re very excited to announce that Sydney Jazz Collective has been chosen to perform in an International TV advertising campaign for Sony Bravia Television.

The broadcast version of the ad below is now airing in Asia, Europe & USA – with Sydney Jazz Collective performing with Emi Meyer from Tokyo around 1:20.

For anyone who has recently bought a Sony TV, we are also featured on the demo mode of every 4K Bravia TV coming out of the Sony factory in 2014 & 2015.

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Sydney Great Gatsby Party Musicians

Sydney Jazz Collective recently performed for another fantastic Great Gatsby party – which is a theme we’ve been seeing used very successfully at several events since the film was released. This most recent Gatsby theme event was a fundraiser function for the KidzFix Foundation. The specific purpose was to raise enough money to purchase a NETS (Newborn & Paediatric Emergency Transport Service) ambulance for rural & regional deployment – so we were very happy to be supporting this worthy cause.

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Sony Television Advertisement

Very excited that Sydney Jazz Collective has been selected for an international advertising campaign for Sony Television.

We can’t mention any details of the campaign until it goes public, but looks like things will be underway soon as there are some images of the band starting to appear on Sony.com – watch this space for more info!

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Fossil Store Launch @ QVB

We were delighted to recently perform for the opening of a new Fossil shop in the QVB arcade. This performance featured our Option 3B Vocal Trio (vocalist, guitar, double bass) which is a configuration that works really well for atmospheric sophistication at events like opening a new premises.

The performance of Sydney Jazz Collective was briefly mentioned on SocialDiary.com.au and the event organiser also send us some direct feedback below.

The band was fantastic on the evening and enjoyed by all! They really helped set the scene with their ambient tunes for our store launch. Thanks again and we’ll definitely keep Sydney Jazz Collective in mind for our future events!

Danielle Clennar, New Fossil Store Launch 
@ QVB Sydney

Thanks to event photographer Caroline Mccredie for these images from the night.

 

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Sydney University Jazz Dinner Dance

Here are a couple of atmospheric black & white photos taken on the gig by our multi-talented male vocalist (and resident instagram guru) Edoardo Santoni.

These pictures of the band were taken while performing at the Sydney University Jazz Dinner Dance (held annually in the hall of St Pauls College). Here’s what the event organiser had to say afterwards:

The Jazz Dinner Dance is one of St Paul’s Colleges most prized and anticipated events in their calendar year. As the name of the event suggests, this meant we needed a Jazz band. Saying this though, there was quite a strict criteria of qualities that we needed the band to have in order for the night to run smoothly so the search for this ‘perfect’ band had become quite stressful. Sydney Jazz Collective matched these needs perfectly by being:
– Able to fit our budget as you provided the best quality service for the best price
– Easy to communicate with, Tom Abbott was a good mix of professional and casual in all communication, listened to all our needs and always did what he said he was going to do
– Flexible on the night to play around dances and other entertainment and play for the extra hour that we ended up needing at the end of the night because everyone was loving the music so much
– Able to follow the vibe of the crowd and notice when to move from the more formal jazz music to the dancey classics
– Able to set up and perform in an organised manner without needing to badger us for information.
Overall, the band was so easy to work with. Everyone enjoyed their work and we would be more than happy to work with them again and recommend them to anyone else that is looking for something similar. Thanks again.

Alex Sharp, Jazz Dinner Dance 
@ St Pauls College, Sydney University

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Premier’s Awards for Public Service

So our appearance on the Premier’s video was very brief (see 4 min 11 sec) – but we had a great time performing in our Instrumental Jazz Trio configuration for the Premier’s Awards for Public Service recently held at the Darling Harbour Convention & Exhibition Centre. Congratulations to all the winners who were recognised for the hard work they have put in throughout the year!

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Financial Services – Corporate Function

We had a ball last night performing at a large corporate event for around 450 guests from a Sydney based financial services organisation. They choose our Option 7B Septet which includes (male vocals, female vocals, saxophone, guitar, keyboard, bass, drums) and works really well for these kind of large events, as it gives a very broad textural pallet for serving up some sophisticated lounge jazz at the start – moving through to the more high energy hard grooving contemporary pop sound required to get hundreds of people up and dancing later in the night (and man, did this crowd love to dance!)

The theme for the night was Gangster / Gatsby and included a myriad of jugglers, acrobats, aerial trapeze & character actors – very well planned and great fun to perform at. Thanks to Adriano and his team from SightLine for managing sound on the night.

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Channel Ten TV Gig

Sydney Jazz Collective was recently asked by Channel 10 to feature as the house band for a cocktail party on the Australian television series of ‘Biggest Loser’.

We had a great time performing all original music in the Quintet configuration, and also learned quite a bit about just how much reality there really is in reality TV.

For those who are interested in seeing the final product, here is a link to the episode on Channel Ten’s website (scroll through to about 4:44 to see the band)

thebiggestloser.com.au/video.htm?movideo_p=47478&movideo_m=184698

 

 

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