The Melancholy Babes Announce New Jazz From The Big City Tour

Aotearoa's unstoppable force in exploratory avant-jazz for over two decades, The Melancholy Babes are embarking together on a late winter jaunt around the upper middle of Te Ika-a-Māui. The sonically synergistic super-trio of saxophonist Jeff Henderson, double bass player Tom Callwood and drummer Anthony Donaldson promise no less than to bring New Jazz from the Big City to Rotorua, Tauranga, Kirikiriroa, Tairāwhiti / Gisborne, and Tāmaki Makaurau's Creative Jazz Club from 28th August onwards.

Releasing their eighth album of improvisational excursions Lovebite around this time last year, as part of Kiwijahzz's crucial Jazz from the Underground Nightclubs of Aotearoa series, open-eared aficionados can start salivating about the prospect of a new long player from The Melancholy Babes named Knockout Time! via that imprint in the near future. Go catch them live at the dates below...

The Melancholy Babes - New Jazz From The Big City 2024 Tour

Wednesday 28th August - Creative Jazz Club, Auckland
Thursday 29th August - Last Place, Hamilton*
Friday 30th August - Jam Factory, Tauranga
Saturday 31st August - Dome Cinema, Gisborne*
Sunday 1st September - Rotorua Jazz Club, Rotorua

*Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

Listen to 'Teef Marks' from 2023's Jazz from the Underground Nightclubs of Aotearoa Vol​.​10 by The Melancholy Babes - Lovebite...

Press release:

Exploratory Jazz trio The Melancholy Babes announce a North Island tour releasing the album ‘KNOCKOUT TIME!’ on the Kiwijahzz label – https://kiwijahzz.bandcamp.com/

The Melancholy Babes have been performing and evolving their original music over the last three decades. From knotty jazz compositions to elegant Ellingtonia, free improvisation and beyond, the trio is dedicated to exploring the wide worlds of possibility within a saxophone, bass and drums format.