This event is FREE ENTRY with any purchased 2026 Perth International Jazz Festival ticket.

Jon Hunt’s Blue Devils are a Melbourne based band playing traditional and swing jazz. Led by reed player Jon Hunt, the band focuses on the music of Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington as well as other jazz luminaries of the 20s and 30s. The band began during the years Jon spent living in New York, where he regularly played and recorded with Grammy winners Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks and toured throughout the US, Europe and Asia with Gordon Webster’s swing band. Jon recorded his album ‘House Rent Blues’ with many of the musicians from these bands, and continues to explore and expand this music since returning to Australia. Jon’s PhD examined early jazz techniques and the possibility of re-contextualising them into modern frameworks. Jon has recorded 3 of his own albums and appeared on close to 40 other albums.

Tamara Murphy (bass) ran her quintet Murphy’s Law for 14 years, releasing four albums and was a member of Keller-Murphy-Browne (with Andrea Keller and Allan Browne), releasing two albums. She now runs her band Spirograph Studies and albums have been nominated for a number of awards including The Age Genre Music Awards, AIR awards and The Bell Awards. Murphy was awarded the inaugural PBS Young Elder of Jazz Commission in 2011 and her compositions have appeared on albums by other artists, including vocalist Elly Hoyt, ATM15 Big Band, pianist Tony Gould and saxophonist Rob Burke.

Kyrie Anderson (drums) travelled to the prestigious Banff International Jazz and Creative Workshop in 2019, where she was mentored by luminaries Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey. Since that pivotal experience, she has emerged as a prominent figure in the Australian jazz and improvisation scene. Her exceptional contributions have not only led to two nominations for the esteemed Freedman Fellowship but have also featured her performances at major international jazz festivals around Australia with her group’s Aura, Then Now When, LIIT and the Sam Anning Septet. She has frequented Japan to record and perform with Sumire Kuribayashi quartet, as well as performed national tours with The Mae’s, Rowena Wise and Nancy Bates. She was also selected for two creative residencies with her band LIIT in which she returned to Banff, Canada and Harrigans Lane, NSW. In addition to her career as a performer, Kyrie is committed to teaching and mentorship through Melbourne University’s Gender Defying Jazz Program and the Monash University Jazz Department.

Special Guest Pianists:

Wednesday 28 October - Matthew Sheens (USA)
Thursday 29 October - Harry Mitchell (PER)
Friday 30 October - Louis Rebeiro (PER)

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