Scott Tinkler/ Simon Barker/Carl Dewhurst/ Scott McConnachie Quartet DRUB

Name: Scott Tinkler/ Simon Barker/Carl Dewhurst/ Scott McConnachie Quartet DRUB
Start: 2025-12-04T09:30:00+11:00
Location: Uptown jazz cafe

Schedule

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 09:30 am

UTC+11:00

Location

Uptown jazz cafe | Melbourne, VI

bookings - [email protected]
Doors 7.30. Music from 8pm
Scott Tinkler and Simon Barker are two of the most outstanding inmprovising musicians in Australia. With a shared history of some of the most amazing ensembles, they also have a long tradition of performing as duo in an open, improvised setting.
Scott Tinkler is a founding member and the Associate Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra and plays regularly in Melbourne in trios and quartets with musicians such as Marc Hannaford, Sam Pankhurst, Alan Brown, Philip Rex, Harry Shaw-Reynolds, Paul Grabowsky Ken Eadie and Carl Dewhurst.
Current projects include Chiri with the Australian drummer Simon Barker and Korean Pansori singer Bae Il Dong. In 2011 at the invitation of the Australian Department of Foreign affairs, Chiri toured to Korea, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, Cyprus, Jordan finishing with a performance at the Smithsonian in Washington USA and two 2012 tours to Korea.
ARIA Award and Australia Council fellowship winner, we are very proud to have him as a Melbourne icon and a leader.
Simon Barker (PhD) is a lecturer in Drum Set and Rhythm Awareness at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In addition to his numerous solo performances and recordings, Simon co-leads several internationally recognized collaborative ensembles including Trace Sphere, Chiri, Showa 44, and Band of Five Names. Simon also performs with many of Australia’s most established ensembles including the Matt McMahon trio, the Phil Slater Quartet, and several groups led by Scott Tinkler. Recent international collaborations include performances at KBS Art Hall, Seoul, (with Jo Jonghun and Lim Mijeong), Yeowoorak Festival, Korea, (with Kim Jeong Hee), Jazztopad, Poland (duet with Bae il Dong), peformances with Jen Shyu (USA). in 2015, Simon published "Korea and the Western Drumset" (Ashgate, London).
A leading figure in the jazz and improvised music scene, Carl Dewhurst can effortlessly slide across genres from pop to world music, rock to blues, blurring them at will.
Carl has led his own jazz trio and quartet and is co-leader of Showa 44, with drummer Simon Barker. He also led the genre defying trio The Drip Hards and was a member of the legendary free-jazz quartet NUDE with Lisa Parrott, Cam Undy and Louis Burdett. He performed for many years with Undy’s 20th Century Dog and Numerology. He recorded with Parrott on her album “Round Tripper” which earned four stars in Downbeat magazine.
He is a member of Korean/Australian ensemble Daorum, with whom he performed at The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, Scott Tinkler’s power trio DRUB; Band of Five Names, and Stu Hunter’s Migration. He was a long time member of the the Australian Art Orchestra and was a regular member of the James Morrison Quintet for over fifteen years. He has collaborated for nearly twenty years with vocalist Susan Gai Dowling.
He currently performs with Jade MacRae, The Catholics, Emma Pask, Clayton Doley, Martha Marlow, Phil Stack and Frances Madden to name a few.
Scott McConnachie is regarded as one of Australia’s most exciting improvising saxophonists. Drawing from traditions including jazz, freely improvised music and western art music, his sound is remarkably personal and is coupled with an extremely high level of performance intensity. Since relocating from Brisbane to Melbourne in 2011, Scott has performed with leading Australian improvisers such as David Tolley, Alan Browne, Scott Tinkler, Ken Edie, Simon Barker, Erkki Veltheim and Phil Treloar. He performs regularly with The Australian Art Orchestra, the Paul Grabowsky and has performed with Barney McCall’s ASIO (Australian Symbiotic Improvisers Orbit).
In 2012 PRIME, McConnachie’s duo with legendary improviser Ren Walters, released the album “Motive”, an exploratory work for saxophone and guitar. McConnachie also recently released a live recording of solo saxophone music titled “Getting out of the Way”.
As a classical saxophonist, Scott has given concerts performing the works of Xenakis, Berio, Bach, Wuorinen and others. In 2015 McConnachie toured remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory with the highly acclaimed Black Arm Band. In 2009 Scott toured extensively in Japan with legendary free jazz drummer Shoji Hano, and he has toured Australia numerous times since 2005 with collaborative projects Water Logic, Taste of Teeth, and singer songwriter Jackie Marshall.