Vince Jones Club Tour – Northside at The Jazz Lab & Southside at MEMO Music Hall: 25-27 August
Melbourne Jazz lovers are in for a treat!
VINCE JONES has set the benchmark for Australian Jazz singers since his emergence in the jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 70s and early 80s. Recently he has been playing to large audiences in theatres and festivals so this August and September he returns to the intimacy of clubs across the country with three very special performances in Melbourne.
His 20-album, international career has never hesitated in its musical evolution – a career played in the moment. He is that rare genre-defying artist who creates music without borders. From Iris DeMent’s folk “Our Town” to his original piano heavy, new age “Wonderworld”, he comments, sometimes uncomfortably, about the world we live in, from an unashamedly idealistic perspective. His intuitive readings of the Great American Songbook are sensitively true to composer and artist.
He is a wonderful trumpet player as his style has developed a distinctive reserve and subtlety. He plays a little less and draws a good deal more from it than he did in early days. A brief solo from Vince is worth a hundred notes played with less discretion.
Particular about the musical company he keeps, he continues to enjoy playing with the best jazz musicians the country has to offer and on this occasion – Matt McMahon, his pianist and Music Director, Ben Robertson (bass) and Tony Floyd (drums).
Northside Jazz lovers can catch Vince on Friday 25 August and Saturday 26 August at The Jazz Lab, 27 Leslie St, Brunswick. Doors 8pm, Tickets $45 available from www.jazzlab.club
Southside Jazz lovers can join Vince for an afternoon performance on Sunday 27 August at MEMO Music Hall, 88 Acland Street St Kilda. Doors 2.30pm, Tickets $35 to $45 plus bf at www.memomusichall.com.au
