Duncan Haynes Cool Jazz/West Coast Sessions

Duncan Haynes brings his Directions in Jazz to Martinborough as part of our Spring Jazz Celebration with his Cool Jazz /West Coast Sessions. The focus is on the cooler sound that evolved in the late 1940s as a counter-movement to the adrenalin rush of bebop. It continued through the 1950s propelled by superstars of the time: Dave Brubeck, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Shorty Rogers, Miles Davis, Lennie Tristano, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan.

Led by award-winning international pianist Duncan Haynes, the band is packed with some of Aotearoa’s finest jazz musicians & Tui award-winners: Umar Zakaria (bass), Jake Baxendale (tenor sax), Michael Costello (trumpet) and Shaun Anderson (drums).