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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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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Beautiful Beachside Black & White

Just received some beautiful black & white photographs of Sydney Jazz Collective performing our opening acoustic trio set for a recent wedding at Balmoral Bathers’ Pavilion.

These photos were taken by the Talented Mr Brindley (Robert from Brindley Images).

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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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Saturday Coffee + Live Jazz

Here’s the poster from before the gig:

… and here’s some photos taken on the day!

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Ashurst & Blakes merger celebration @ Sydney Town Hall

We recently enjoyed performing in our instrumental trio format at Sydney Town Hall for a corporate function to celebrate the merger of Blake Dawson with the English law firm Ashurst. With about 400 guests anticipated, an amazing acoustic space, and the backdrop of Sydney’s giant pipe organ – we knew it was going to be a fun night musically!

Thanks to Ben and the team at Town Hall for doing an amazing job distributing a great balanced sound throughout the space without being too loud, and also to photographer David Hunt (from Lensflair Photography) whose marvellous work you can enjoy below.

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Powerhouse Museum

What an incredible place to hold your function. On Tuesday 3rd May the Sydney Jazz Collective guitar, saxophone and bass trio visited the Powerhouse Museum to perform for the Transfield Services Dinner to celebrate their 10 year Anniversary on ASX. Surrounded by the amazing locomotive and space exhibition we performed for many guests including the federal member of parliament, The Hon. Joe Hockey.

The soft tones & harmonic textures from this kind of trio lineup work really well for corporate dinners and more intimate settings. It’s also handy to have 3 balanced instrumental roles (melody, chords, bass lines) which can perform acoustically without any access to power if the event requires.

Here’s what our client from Transfield Services had to say about this performance:

Thank you Sydney Jazz Collective for putting on an amazing performance for Transfield Services last night. The instrumental trio (sax, guitar, bass) performing at a Board function at the Transport Exhibition in the Powerhouse Museum was just the right touch to ease our guests into a relaxed and convivial evening.

Your musicians arrived on time, set up discreetly and then performed professionally with flair and elegance – first class entertainment. Next time we organise a similar function, we will definitely call on Sydney Jazz Collective again, perhaps even adding one of your vocalists to the mix.

Eve Roberts, Transfield Services Corporate Function
@ The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

Sydney Jazz Collective Trio (Sax, Double Bass, Guitar) performing at The Powerhouse Museum

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