Bennetts Lane Jazz Club

at 25 Bennetts Lane, Melbourne , 3000 Australia

1. Jazz Club

Dubbed by Lonely Planet as "the world's best jazz club", we're open nightly presenting world-class international and national jazz musicians.

Description

Located in the quintessential setting of a dead-end Melbourne laneway, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club was opened in November 1992. The original room has great natural acoustics and has been host to a number of world famous performers including Prince, Maceo Parker, Kenny Kirkland, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick Jnr., Paul Grabowsky, Joe Chindamo and Leroy Jones to name just a few. The second room was opened in January 2000 to coincide with the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, known as the "Jazz Lab", Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Elling, Wayne Krantz, George Garzone, Jim Black, Kurt Rosenwinkel and many more have given outstanding performances there. However, with a 7 nights per week program, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club is dedicated to presenting Australian performers by providing a comfortable listening environment for their listeners, purpose built rooms, instruments and promotional opportunities. We're home to internationally acclaimed performers Allan Browne, Tony Gould, Vince Jones, Katie Noonan, Renee Geyer, Eugene Ball, Jamie Oehlers, Jordan Murray, Scott Tinkler, Paul Williamson and many many more. We host presentations from the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the Women's International Jazz Festival, the Italian Jazz Festival, the Fringe Jazz Festival, and the Melbourne Jazz Cooperative. We have been instrumental in developing projects such as the Bennetts Lane BIG Band, presenting residencies for developing recording material, and curating educational programs for live recording studies. We are great supporters of aspiring and emerging talent through presenting assessment performances and graduation recitals from small school bands to large big bands, private and public secondary schools to the nation's best conservatories and universities. We host masterclasses and workshops and present education seminars. We offer our guidance to funding bodies and government agencies, and we sit on juries that determine talent, creativity, dedication and innovation in live music performance. We have been awarded the "Best Australian Jazz Club" award every time the category ran in the Australian Bell Awards. Please visit us any night to hear quality live jazz performances from the cutting edge and avant-garde to the classics and standards that made the art form great. Our website will tell you about each performance and if you’ve any questions, don't hesitate to contatl us.

Opening time

• Mondays: 20:30- 01:00
• Tuesdays: 20:30- 01:00
• Wednesdays: 20:30- 01:00
• Thursdays: 20:30- 01:00
• Fridays: 20:30- 01:00
• Saturdays: 20:30- 01:00
• Sundays: 20:30- 01:00

Company Rating

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Summary

Bennetts Lane Jazz Club is Melbourne based place and this enity listed in Jazz Club category. Located at 25 Bennetts Lane VIC 3000. Contact phone number of Bennetts Lane Jazz Club: 0396632856