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🎹🎷 Dive into the spiky, swingsy, and bluesy world of Playing with Monk, the dynamic duo of pianist Phillip Johnston and saxophonist , this Thursday at Jazz in the Rocks! Enjoy iconic compositions by Thelonious Monk and original tunes inspired by his work. Don’t miss this inventive jazz collaboration! 🎵✨

🎤✨ Returning to Jazz in the Rocks this Thursday, One of Sydney’s favourite jazz singers, melts hearts with her sweet, sure, and rich voice. Effortlessly charming and sophisticated, Kate brings new life to beautiful jazz classics. Her latest album, ‘Moon Songs,’ continues to make waves in the jazz scene. Catch her live in from 6pm and be transfixed! 🎶❤️

🎹✨ Get ready for a night of feel-good jazz, soul, and blues! THIS THURSDAY Jazz in the Rocks continues with and the Flashy Dashbaks. 🌟 A giant of the Australian Blues Scene, Doley is a master musician, killer boogie woogie piano player, and a super funky Hammond player.🎶

🎷✨ Join us for an enchanting evening as Volant, led by the brilliant saxophonist Matthew Ottignon, celebrates the launch of their ethereal album! This introspective acoustic jazz quartet, featuring pianist Lauren Tsamouras, bassist Hannah James, and drummer Holly Conner, crafts music that mirrors the mesmerizing dance of birds in flight.

👉 August 9th at the Goethe Institute, Sydney
🎟️ Tickets at sima.org.au
“It all comes down to sound…. you hear a life force fermenting in Ottignon’s tenor that can rear up like a tsunami or melt like chocolate.” ★★★★½ - Sydney Morning Herald, John Shand. 🎶

Applications for SIMA’s Young Women’s Jazz Workshops close THIS FRIDAY JUNE 21st!
Head to sima.org.au to get your application in so you don’t miss your chance to be a part of this award winning program that has helped so many amazing musicians get their start in jazz and improv!

Tomorrow night at 6pm in the heart of Sydney! MIRA at ‘Jazz Sessions in The Rocks’! ✨💃🎤✨

After living and performing in Australia for over a decade, jazz-trained Chilean vocalist Magdalena Mira felt a longing to reconnect with the music deep within her soul. “As much as you do, as far as you go,” she says, “the roots are the strongest thing.” Magdalena has brought together a band of players who are all passionately immersed in the music of their ancestors. Combined with Magdalena’s unique jazz phrasing, improvisation and composition, MIRA is the rhythm, sweat, and harmony of South American roots animated by a contemporary spirit.

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Journey to the roots of South American music this Thursday Night at our 4th ‘Jazz Sessions in The Rocks’ performance! MIRA, led by vocalist Magdalena Mira, is the rhythm, sweat, and harmony of South American roots animated by a contemporary spirit. Wherever you trace your own roots, MIRA will move you. 💃💃

Featuring
Magdalena Mira - Vocals
Cesar Marin - Bass, charango, vocals
Ricardo Cancino - Guitar, vocals
Gavin Ahearn - Piano
Julio Candela - Percussion

Head to our SIMA.org.au for more details!

Check out these beautiful photos from our 1st 'Jazz Sessions in The Rocks' featuring the incredible vocalist Kate Wadey! The series continues tomorrow night at 6pm! You don’t want to your opportunity to hear ‘Sydney’s First Lady of Blues’, Alice Terry live! 🎤✨

Featuring
Alice Terry- vocals 🎤
Phil Stack - Bass 🎻
Harry Sutherland- Keys 🎹
Myles Thomas- Drums 🥁

Head to The Rocks website for more details!

The third ‘Jazz Sessions in The Rocks’ features the Alice Terry Quartet!

Nicknamed ‘Sydney’s First Lady of Blues’, Alice Terry’s spirited performances and clever writing draws die-hard fans that never leave. Her music sits somewhere between the country sensibilities of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, the folk of The Waifs, the soulful blues of Bonnie Raitt, and timeless jazz balladeers. 🎶✨💃

Settle in with a cocktail from Hickson House this Thursday night at 6pm and hear one of Australia’s most exciting vocalists!🍸

The third ‘Jazz Sessions in The Rocks’ features the Alice Terry Quartet!

Nicknamed ‘Sydney’s First Lady of Blues’, Alice Terry’s spirited performances and clever writing draws die-hard fans that never leave. Her music sits somewhere between the country sensibilities of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, the folk of The Waifs, the soulful blues of Bonnie Raitt, and timeless jazz balladeers.

Settle in with a cocktail from Hickson House Distilling Co this Thursday night at 6pm and hear one of Australia’s most exciting vocalists!

Check out these photos from last week’s incredible performance by Kate Wadey at The Rocks! 🎤✨ Cope St Parade's hot sounds of gypsy swing mixed with elements of New Orleans traditional jazz are set to light up the ‘Jazz Sessions in The Rocks’ tomorrow night! 🎺🎷

You don’t want to miss their electrifying performance 6pm tomorrow night!

Our second ‘Jazz Sessions in The Rocks’ performance features Cope Street Parade. Considered one of Australia’s most established creative music ensembles, they blend electric rhythms with unique song-writing that span the genres of jazz, folk, pop, gypsy and swing. With tender ballads and rollicking dance numbers they capture the spirit and warmth of early music styles and cheekily blur the lines between the contemporary and the classic. 🎺🎷✨

“This is ecstasy.” - John Clare, Sydney Morning Herald

Catch their thrilling performance at 6pm this Thursday night!

✨Tomorrow night! ✨ Catch Kate Wadey live at The Rocks! Joining Kate will be Harry Sutherland on piano and Samuel Dobson on bass. The trio have a rich musical bond formed through many years of collaboration. Kate Wadey’s performances display a level of craft that will have you transfixed, leaving you full of joy and happiness, with a song in your heart and on your lips! 🎤

The first 'Jazz Sessions in The Rocks' performance features one of Sydney’s favourite jazz singers, Kate Wadey. Her sweet, sure, and rich voice that exudes effortless charm and sophistication melts hearts everywhere she sings. With wonderful Jazz undertones, she navigates the emotions and melody with equal skill, providing strength of character in each song. 🎤🎼✨

Catch Kate Wadey and her trio this Thursday night at 6pm at The Rocks in the heart of Sydney!

We are curating four free incredible nights of music in May! Every Thursday night 6-9pm at in the heart of Sydney! Listen to some of Australia's finest jazz artists, whilst taking in the fabulous views of the Sydney Harbour with a Hickson House Distilling Co cocktail in hand!

We are kicking off next Thursday with the powerhouse jazz vocalist Kate Wadey!

.jazz have an award-winning program for young women who want to take that solo 🎺 Over eight-weeks, The Young Women’s Jazz Workshops teach musicians aged 12 and up, how to improvise and get a feel for jazz and blues. Applications are now open at sima.org.au! 🎙🥁

The final stop of Andrea Keller’s ‘Transients’ tour is tomorrow afternoon in Sydney! Catch Andrea alongside Australian jazz heavies Julien Wilson and Sam Anning at 3pm at Church Street Studios.

Don’t miss your chance to hear Andrea’s breathtaking compositions!

Tonight is the night! Andrea Keller’s ‘Transients’ are performing at 7:30pm at JMI!

Transients is a metamorphic project showcases an extensive pool of creatives, from exciting new voices to the highest calibre of musicians. You don’t want to miss this! Tickets available via

🚨Tour announcement! 🚨ARIA-Award winning pianist Andrea Keller’s ‘Transients’ is coming to Brisbane, Canberra, Wombarra and Sydney next week! Join Andrea Keller on piano, Julien Wilson on saxophone, and Sam Anning on double bass for enchanting nights of original compositions.

🌟Thursday 22nd of Feb - Brisbane at

🌟Friday 23rd of Feb - Canberra at

🌟Saturday 24th of Feb - Wombarra House Concert

🌟Sunday 25th of Feb - Sydney at

Don’t miss your chance to see ‘Transients’ live in a world-class configuration of exceptional Australian improvisers. Tickets are available via our 🎹✨

Photograph by Jared Leibowitz, Phoenix Central Park

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Our first SIMA Young Artist Feature is recent Sydney Con graduate Harley Coleman!

Harley Coleman is a musician of many worlds. Primarily a jazz and improvising guitarist/composer, he also traverses popular and experimental music as a composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Originally from Port Macquarie, he moved to Sydney in 2019 to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, learning from Australian Jazz luminaries Cameron Undy, Carl Dewhurst, Dr Simon Barker, Dr Phil Slater as well as international artists Florian Ross and Will Vinson. He is currently working on recording his solo music and performing with his other projects.

Our feature album for December is 's 'Home Is'. Hinano is an exciting emerging improvising saxophonist from Sydney. This captivating release features:

Hinano Fujisaki - Tenor Saxophone and Flute
Lauren Tsamouras - Piano and Hammond Organ
Bonnie Stewart - Drums, Percussion, Voice and Electronics/Effects
Jacques Emery - Double Bass

Head to People Sound to purchase your copy!

Huge congratulations to The Vampires who won the ‘Best Jazz Album’ at the ARIA awards!

Their regional tour is still underway! Next stop is the Palais Theatre in Franklin TONIGHT!. Then they are heading to MONA tomorrow night, followed by the final tour performance at Adventure Bay Hall on Bruny Island on the 3rd!

Tickets via

As we start to wind down for the year, we are taking the time to look back at some of the highlights of the SIMA 2023 program!

Kicking off with the that was from June 9th to 11th this year! It featured some incredible local and international artists including Lisa Odour-Noah, Chloe Kim, Harry James Angus, The Necks, Vazesh and Tessie Overmyer!

Our feature album for November is ’s recent release Flicker & Polar Bird!

This happens to be ’s 23rd release!

Make sure to check it out via this bandcamp link - https://andreakeller.bandcamp.com/album/flicker-polar-bird

And thats a wrap for the Sydney Int’l Women’s Jazz Festival this year!

Thank you to all the incredible artists who performed, the SIMA team and all who worked on the festival especially who worked tirelessly behind the scenes, and all those who came and heard the future of jazz in Australia and across the world!

What an exciting it is in the Australian music scene!

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LAST DAY of the SIWJF for 2023! Make sure to head to one of these incredible gigs today to see out this festival with a bang! Come and celebrate what has been an exciting week and a half of music making!

Leonie Cohen and Nicky Crayson Quartet - 12pm at Bennelong Restaurant

Bridie King’s Jazz and Blues R***e - 6:30pm at Lazybones Lounge

SiSi – The Weavers - 6:30pm at Lazybones Lounge