The Java Quartet – Teddy and Me

The Java Quartet – Teddy and Me

Celebrating more than 30 years as one of Australia's most distinctive jazz ensembles, The Java Quartet presents Teddy and Me—a deeply personal new album by bassist and composer Michael Galeazzi. Inspired by the life of his father, an Italian migrant who made Australia home, the music traces stories of family, memory, identity, and belonging through lyrical compositions, spacious improvisation, and irresistible grooves.

Teddy and Me is all that is typically Java: melodic and spacious, driving, elegant and honest.

• Michael Galeazzi - bass

• Matthew Ottignon - saxophone

• Greg Coffin - piano

• Mike Quigley - drums

“The Java Quartet inhabits its own space, unlike that of any other aggregation, in Australia or anywhere else - supremely melodic, full of taut, yet limpid, grooves and packed with soul”. Kenny Weir, Sunday Herald Sun