James Morrison Quintet featuring Patrick Bartley

Australian jazz virtuoso James Morrison takes The Orpheum stage with his quartet featuring special guest Patrick Bartley. With James Morrison's multi-instrumental mastery and charisma, enjoy a night out in elegant art deco surrounds, entertained by some of the best jazz musicians in the country, and indeed the world.

JAMES MORRISON:

James Morrison is, by anybody’s standard, a virtuoso in the true sense of the word. Besides the trumpet, this multi-instrumentalist also plays trombone, piano, saxophone and double bass.

At the age of six he started on piano, at seven he took up brass, at nine he formed his first band and at thirteen he was playing professionally in nightclubs. His international career developed just as quickly with a debut in the USA at the Monterey Jazz Festival at age sixteen.

Following this were performances at the world’s major jazz festivals, including Montreux, North Sea, Nice and the Hollywood Bowl, playing with many of the legends of jazz - Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, George Benson, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Ray Brown, and Wynton Marsalis to name a few. James also frequents the world’s most famous jazz clubs – Birdland, The Blue Note and Village Vanguard in New York, the New Morning in Paris, the Tokyo Blue Note and Ronnie Scott’s in London.

James has been appointed a member of The Order of Australia, has won countless awards and has been inducted into the Australian Jazz Hall of Fame. He has received several honorary Doctorates and was an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia, leading his own music Academy.

PATRICK BARTLEY:

Patrick Bartley, Jr. (b. 1993) is a GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader from Hollywood, Florida, known for his boundless versatility, virtuosic technique and expressive vocal-like sound.

Since moving to New York City, Patrick has performed and recorded with some of the greatest musical masters in the world, including Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste, Emmet Cohen, Larry Grenadier, Steve Miller, Herbie Hancock, Louis Hayes, Carole King, Jimmy Cobb, Marquis Hill, Bobby Sanabria and many more.

Patrick is most known for his appearances on the multi-million-viewed "Live from Emmet's Place" YouTube sessions. Most notably, it was his extraordinary solo on the jazz standard, "After You've Gone" that instantly went viral and boomeranged around the globe, causing jazz aficionados and music critics to liken his explosive solos to such jazz giants of the saxophone as, Cannonball Adderley and Charlie Parker.