Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra featuring Charles Tolliver

The Mothership is landing in Brisbane and they’ve got a very special trumpeter on board.

Formed in 2003 and widely acknowledged as Australia’s leading jazz orchestra, The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra (JMO) represents many of the finest young improvisers this country has to offer.

This musician’s collective is young, exciting, dynamic and highly original and strives to present world-class performances of jazz orchestra music and to further develop jazz orchestra or big band as an artform in Australia.

But their numbers have swelled by one for this show. JMO have enlisted the considerable talents and experience of the inimitable Charles Tolliver, a trumpeter/composer of such skill and originality that even Dizzy Gillespie was a fan.

Charles’ individual and distinctive sound has been developing since he came to prominence in the 60’s and, with a style that is as much noted for its brilliance as its melodic warmth, he is set apart from other trumpet players today.

18 piece jazz orchestra featuring Phil Slater (trumpet), David Theak (saxophone), Matt Keegan (saxophone) and Evan Mannell (drums)

Duration Approx 90 mins, no interval