6th Feb. 2024 7pm.

Two very talented Ladies Changing the musical landscape with a unique blend of vocal jazz, blues and original music.

NICKI PARROTT   bass/vocals

Returning to Australia after nearly 30 years in New York City, Nicki Parrott started her musical training at age four. She studied jazz at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music under the direction of Don Burrows and was awarded an Arts Council grant to study bass with Rufus Reid in New York. 

Nicki was bassist and vocalist for the legendary Les Paul for over 10 years, in addition to performing at most of the world’s top jazz venues and festivals including The Jazz Cruise and sold-out performances at Birdland and Dizzy’s in NYC.

Nicki has performed with such jazz greats as Randy Brecker, Clark Terry, Bucky and John Pizzarelli, Dick Hyman, Joe Wilder, Michel Legrand, Lee Ritenour, Jose Feliciano, Scott Hamilton, Houston Person, the New York Pops Orchestra, Tommy Emmanuel and legendary producer Arif Mardin. Nicki has also appeared with rock and roll elites such as Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren, Slash and Steve Miller.

She has recorded more than two dozen vocal records for Venus Records (Japan), Arbors Records (USA) and Ooroo Records (USA/AU).

MARTHA BAARTZ  sax/flute

Martha Baartz has performed extensively Nationally and Internationally including Glastonbury Festival (UK), The Edinburgh Festival, The Melbourne Festival, and The Brisbane International Jazz Festival and has a Master’s in Music Performance (award of Academic Excellence 2010) from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. 

Martha is well known for her compositions performed in The Baartz Freeman sextet, Baartzy’s Brew and The Denson Baartz Quartet. She has recorded four successful albums of original music and her compositions are often played on Radio National, Jazz Track. Martha currently teaches saxophone at Southern Cross University (SCU) and Lindisfarne Grammar School.

She has performed with Australian greats; Dan Sultan, Renee Geyer, Jimmy Barnes and Ian Moss (Motown show), Sandy Evans, Bob Sedergreen (2008 Don Banks award winner) Andrea Keller (Aria winner) and Michelle Nicole (Wangaratta Jazz vocal award winner) and international superstars The Funk Brothers, The Temptations and Martha and the Vandala’s. She is a first call session and freelance artist having recorded with Australian premier R&B/Soul band The Teskey Brothers.

They are joined by Steve Russell on keyboards and Dave Sanders on Drums.

Bookings : Please phone or text Keryn 0419658983 or Dianne 0402895008,

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