If Daniel Gassin’s name is not seductive enough to lure you, his lyrical contemporary sounds are. Catch this inventive French influenced pianist and composer’s Sextet.
At: Uptown Jazz Café
Date: 12th June
Time: 8.30pm
Price: $12

If you haven’t already caught internationally acclaimed pianist Joe Chindamo (trio) at the relaxed Uptown Jazz Café or at Bennetts Lane, don’t miss his performance with Dizzy’s acoustics.
At: Dizzy’s Jazz Club
Date: 20th June
Time: 9pm
Price: $20

Raleigh Williams with Roger Clark quintet. This up and coming vocalist has trained with the likes of Julie O’Hara and Michelle Nicole and influences include Katie Noonan! in her jazz, funk repertoire.
At: Dizzy’s Jazz Club
Date: 12th June
Time: 9pm
Price: $16/12

Gangster swing at it’s most sizzling, Frankie Wants Out’s original SWING will have you leaping to the dance floor.
At: Manchester Lane
Date: 22nd June
Time: 9.30pm
Price: $10

Bringing back compositions from jazz and horn masters of the 40’s and 50’s, established Melbourne vocalist and songwriter Julie O’Hara (Sextet), features her original lyrics, jazz standards and the supreme art of voice. Line-up includes talented pianist Ben Winkleman.
At: Bennetts Lane
Date: 21st June
Time: 8.30pm
Price: $20/18

Seasoned young Melbourne performer, Yvette Johansson, offers refreshing vocals with the Joe Roberto Trio.
At: Bennetts Lane
Date: 20th June
Time: 8.30pm
Price: $20/18

Monash University Jazz Ensembles @ Bennetts Lane
Welcome in June by supporting up and coming artists as they showcase their work at Bennett’s Lane June 1st and 2nd. This is your chance to hear Melbourne’s next generation of jazz musicians.
At: Bennetts Lane
Date: June 1 and 2
Time: 7:30pm
Price: $12/8 conc. Tickets at door.

Fresh off of their success at Hamer Hall in the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the boys from FGHR are performing at the Paris Cat on June 24.
This is an opportunity to catch this fresh, innovative quartet in a much more intimate setting. You will hear music from their latest release, Going Home, as well as some of their older work from 2007 Stationary.
At: Paris Cat
When: June 24
Time: 9pm
Price: $15/12 conc.

Katie Noonan album art

Katie Noonan and the Blackbird Project
Katie Noonan’s new album, Blackbird Project, is a stunning collection of Beatles’ covers.
It is a testament to Lennon and McCartney’s musicianship that so many of their songs have been covered; in a way their music has become the new jazz standards.
Past covers range from the Good: Wilson Pickett’s Hey Jude, Siouxsie and the Banshee’s Dear Prudence, and Stevie Wonder’s We Can Work It Out, to the Bad: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by William Shatner and Jim Carrey’s I am …

Checkerboard
Date: 22nd May
At: Manchester Lane more gigs/review
Time: 9.30pm
Price: $10