MIKE MURANE QUINTET
Schedule
Tue Mar 18 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC+13:00Location
Birkenhead Returned Services Association. Recreation Drive, Birkenhead, 0626, Auckland, New Zealand 0626 | Auckland, AU
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The Mike Murane quintet is a collaboration of friends that bring you their fresh interpretations of standards and modern jazz arrangements of popular tunes.They will delight you with their creative and spontaneous interplay.
Mike Murane on vocals is well known in the Auckland jazz scene having played with many of Auckland’s top line artists. He has a polished and swinging vocal style that’s ideal to the standards made popular by Sinatra and Bennett.
Niduk Wijetilleke on piano is a graduate from Berklee College of Music in USA and arrived in New Zealand in 2016. Since then he has widely performed as a solo pianist and with groups. His sophisticated approach to jazz makes him a much sought after performer.
Aaron Coddel is a versatile freelance musician and a photographer. Being highly sought after, he has played electric and acoustic bass for jazz greats such as Cleo Laine, Mark Murphy and saxophonist George Coleman. Additional engagements include hip-hop artist King Kapisi, singer Annie Crummer, iconic
New Zealand band Hello Sailor and blues outfit Chicago Smoke Shop.
Steve Sherriff has performed with the RNZN band, Rodger Fox Big Band, Auckland Jazz Orchestra, Blue Train and John Key’s Strange Fruit and has toured with Natalie Cole, Eartha Kitt, Johnny Dankworth, Cleo Laine and Randy Crawford. He has also performed in stage shows including West Side Story,
Anything Goes, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Hot Shoe Shuffle.
Jason Orme graduated from P.I.T at the Musicians Institute, Los Angeles in 1988 receiving an honours diploma. He is a highly sought after drummer who has worked with a number of popular Auckland bands and bandleaders such as Rodger Fox, Nairobi Trio, Phil Broadhurst & Julie Mason, Trudy Lile’s ‘Mojave
Group’ & album and Nathan Haines.
Members $10 cash
Non-members $25 cash
No EFTPOS.
Non-member contact registration required at time of entry.
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Where is it happening?
Birkenhead Returned Services Association. Recreation Drive, Birkenhead, 0626, Auckland, New Zealand 0626, New ZealandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
