Welcome to the home of
The Jazz Factory
The Jazz Factory has regular weekly gigs around the Sunshine Coast
Noosa Australia. Phone Richard on 54475179 or 0418195123
To
coincide with the addition of a new Museletter sponsor, Noosa Domain,
(see details here) The Jazz Factory will
perform at their splendid new club house on Thursday March 18th.
The Boys are hopeful that this will be the first of a
series of events at Noosa Domain.
The band, with Ian Denovan, Greg Garrett, Bruno Benz,
Paul Williams and Richard Stevens will be playing from 7 pm to 9.30
All Welcome
Admission is free, drinks will be available.
Based in Noosa Heads Queensland, the band is in
demand for festivals, corporate work and private functions, having performed at
the QPAC, Jimbour House Dalby, Southbank Piazza, Bellingen Jazz Festival,
The Marina Mirage Jazz Festival, Bribie Island Jazz Weekend, Brisbane Jazz Club
Carnival, Magnetic Island Jazz Festival, Alice Springs, Noosa Jazz Festival,
Norfolk Island Jazz Festival, Dubbo Jazz Festival and The Gold Coast Jazz
Festival. From the Gold Coast to Townsville, the boys are likely to pop up
anywhere, as far afield as Sydney, The Hunter Valley, Lismore or the Pioneer
Festival and Agricultural Show at Nanango.
The "Factory" broke historic
ground being the first Queensland based traditional band to tour South,
visiting Merimbula and Melbourne. The band appearing at Caulfield RSL, The
Victorian Jazz Club and Kyneton "Jazz By The Riverside".
In May and June 2008, the band toured Europe
playing at the Dresden Dixieland Jazz Festival, Berlin, Apeldoorn, Holland and
Southern England.
The Band uses a wide range of
material with over 600 songs in its repertoire. Whether conducting a sing along
whilst strolling through one of Noosa's best restaurants in Hastings St.,
playing their now famous weekly Jazz Cruise every Tuesday on the Noosa River or
giving a concert for thousands at festivals, the Jazz Factory gives every
performance their best. They have played on planes, boats, mountaintop weddings,
hardware stores and on the back of a truck! Like a good red wine this band
travels well!
The
Jazz Factory draws its inspiration from an earlier era of love songs, rip
roaring jazz and great fun times. If you like Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin and
Duke Ellington, you will love this band! Two of the band members sing so you
won't go short of some great vocals. One of the great delights of this band is
the clean sound and harmonic balance achieved by the musician's compatibility,
no doubt partially as a result of the many gigs played together. If your venue
has a “noise problem” the band plays acoustically (no electricity at all)
however they are at home with a PA set up and have performed at large outdoor
concerts.
The basic band line-up is a quartet ….
Ian Denovan: Trumpet, cornet, vocal
Paul Williams Trombone Clarinet and tenor sax
Bruno Benz clarinet, soprano sax alto sax
Greg Garrett: Banjo, vocal
Richard Stevens: Sousaphone and leader.
We often include additional players for events with a larger budget.
