JAZZ AT THE LOUNGE 2025: Concert 4

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Monday, 26 May 2025

Celebrating Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Andrew Dickeson

Quintet

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Andrew Dickeson leads an all-star group playing music from one of the world’s most famous Jazz bands – Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers.

In the 60s and 70s, listeners who had come to love jazz as their sophisticated popular music, found both swing and blues in abundance in the music of the Jazz Messengers, the quintessential hard bop ensemble led by drummer Art Blakey. With an evolving lineup that read like a who’s who of jazz – Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and the Marsalis brothers to name but a few – by the ’80s, mainstream audiences overwhelmingly agreed that this, hard bop, is what jazz is, and Art Blakey was its master.

Taking the stage as bandleader, Dickeson and his quartet will honour this legendary drummer and his ensemble with a night of foot-tapping swing, featuring classic Jazz Messengers repertoire – including Bobby Timmons’ Hard Bop anthem “Moanin’” – along with other classic Messengers tunes and material by Blakey alumni. Joining him on stage will be four of Australia’s finest: Simon Ferenci on trumpet, Hugh Barrett on piano, Jacob Graham on bass and rising star Justin Yeo on the saxophone.

Wash away the dust of your day with a night of soulful sounds and fiery swing!    

About Andrew Dickeson

Known for his crisp, hard-swinging style, Andrew Dickeson has been one of the leading drummers on the Australian Jazz scene for over 25 years. His playing is informed by the history and tradition of the jazz movement; his respect and love for this history is immediately apparent, his knowledge of it is second to none. Playing and studying in New York City with jazz legends Art Taylor, Vernel Fournier and Michael Carvin, Dickeson has worked with numerous American Jazz stars such as Branford Marsalis, Rodney Whitaker, Johnny Griffin, Lee Konitz and Eric Alexander, as well as practically every jazz figure in the Australian Jazz scene. Appearing on over a hundred albums, both winners and nominees for many jazz awards, Andrew is in constant demand in Australia and overseas, including Japan.

Musicians:

Andrew Dickeson, drums

Justin Yeo, saxophone

Simon Ferenci, trumpet

Jacob Graham, double bass

Hugh Barrett, piano

About Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey was a prominent figure in the hard bop movement of the mid-20th century jazz era, known for his powerful drumming and leadership of the Jazz Messengers. He first gained recognition in the 1940s playing with big bands like Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine, and then moved into bebop with musicians like Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In the 1950s, Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group that would evolve into a platform for emerging jazz talent and become a cornerstone of the hard bop sound.

When

Thursday, 5 June 2025

7.30 pm

Where

The Concourse Lounge
The Concourse, 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood

Tickets

$40.30 – $75.50 + BF

Cabaret Seating available

Bookings

Jazz at the Lounge
Jazz at the Lounge is a stellar line-up of ten unmissable concerts, bringing the magic of live jazz to Sydney’s North Shore. https://www.theconcourse.com.au/jazz-at-the-lounge-2025/  

Concert packages

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Media assets

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