Friday 27 October @ Thomas Dixon Centre

The Tyler Cooney Quintet is a recently formed group off the back of a Freedman Fellowship award nomination. The group refined and recorded some of Tyler’s compositions that were written during the period of his Masters Of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium and performed at JMI Live, as well as more recently performing at the Ian Hanger Recital Hall.

The group will be performing a set of contemporary jazz compositions that place a focus on complex compositional interplay, high level of melodic improvisation, and sympathetic band interplay. The group consists of Tyler Cooney - guitar, compositions, James Sandon - tenor saxophone, Eden Armstrong - piano, Elliott Parker - double bass, and Chris Evans - drums.

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The Brisbane International Jazz Festival will take over the Thomas Dixon Centre on Friday 27 October with a massive line-up of artists across multiple stages. Featuring Brooklyn-based saxophonist Caroline Davis and her adventurous trio Alula, Western Australian collective Quiet Country featuring Harry Mitchell (piano), Ben Vanderwal (drums), Allira Wilson (vocals), Karl Florisson (bass) and Ben Witt (guitar) premiering their new album, Melbourne’s Loose Leaf trio led by Andrew Saragossi as well as some of Queensland’s finest artists – Hannah Macklin, Cigany Weaver, Chris Stover's Imaginary Hybridities (USA), Joshua Hatcher Quartet, Sharon Nobs Trio, Khito, Tyler Cooney Quintet, SHAMIN, and the Theo Parrott Organ Trio.

The event will also kick off with an open rehearsal of the commissioned works of Kayleigh Pincott and Brendan Foster – recipients of the inaugural Lynette Irwin MF Composition Commission.