Josh Parker Electric Band

Name: Josh Parker Electric Band
Start: 2025-11-21T22:00:00+08:00
Location: Ellington Jazz Club, Perth

Schedule

Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

Ellington Jazz Club, Perth | Perth, WA

Join the Josh Parker Sextet as they ‘go electric’ for a late night set exploring heavy hitting rock, funk and fusion jazz music from artists such as Miles Davis, Stone Alliance and Elvin Jones!
This group will demonstrate their musical chemistry and virtuosic improvisations over compositions from many pivotal albums such as as ‘Bitches Brew’, ‘New Agenda’ and ‘Lookout Farm’, as well as a host of exciting original compositions in the style of early 70’s and 80’s rock fusion. This group consists of local rising talents Callum Thomson on Drums, Finn McKibbin on electric and upright bass, Flavio Colonetti on rhoades and piano, Chris Kazuki on guitar and Aaron Caldwell on saxophones. All featured musicians have been creating music together in various formats throughout Perth over the last few years and will come together on this night to create an explosive and spontaneous set of music. Don’t miss this exciting late night of genre bending grooves and high energy performance!
Josh Parker is a Perth based saxophonist and composer playing exciting new music throughout the city. He released his debut album ‘thecitythatsleeps’ in 2025 after graduating from WAAPA with first class honours. He was awarded the recital prize in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and was featured as an ‘Emerging Artist’ in Dingo Magazine in 2023. During his studies he performed with artists such as Paul Grabowsky, Frank Gambale and Ron McClure, and has since performed with a wide variety of local artists, including a live recording with Number Junky. He is also a member of Melbourne based band 40th Parallel, who perform across Australia and have released a variety of music together.