With the Vitality Five at Sancy Snow Jazz, February 2019 (photo by Michel Piedallu).
2018 saw the creation of ‘Michael McQuaid’s Swing Stars’, a brand new lineup playing 1930s swing (photo by Olga Prokofjeva-Kursanova):
2017 publicity shot for ‘Diaspora’ album
It has been a huge thrill to hang out and play with Bob Wilber, student of Sidney Bechet and jazz great in his own right (2017, photo by Tom Langham)
At a London wedding in 2017
With the Vitality Five in Holland, January 2017
With John Scurry’s Reverse Swing, at the Paris Cat Jazz Club in Melbourne 2016
At Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party, 2015
Leading the sax section in Steve Coombe’s International All-Stars, at the European Swing Dance Championships in London, October 2015
Featured soloist on ‘Body and Soul’ with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra in Berlin, October 2015 (photo by Michael Gerhardt)
With two great jazz friends in Holland, November 2015 (Tom ‘Spats’ Langham – left, Mauro Porro – right)
2015 – A selection of photos from the recent Hot Jazz Alliance tour in America
Sitting in with the Fat Babies, the sensational Chicago band (photo by Jason Downes)
Holding Bix Beiderbecke’s cornet, Putnam Museum, Davenport, Iowa (photo by Jason Downes)
The Hot Jazz Alliance at Grumpy’s Saloon, Davenport (photo by Debbie White)
The Hot Jazz Alliance sitting in at the Iguana, New York City, with Vince Giordano on piano and Jim Fryer on trombone (photo by Neal Siegal)
The Hot Jazz Alliance, as featured on American television…
Sitting in with Jon-Erik Kellso’s Ear-Regulars at the Ear Inn, New York City (photo by Ben Guthrie)
With Josh Duffee’s Graystone Monarchs at the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, Davenport US (photo by Jonathan Holmes)
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2015 – Playing with Steve Waddell’s Creole Bells
2014 – Melbourne International Jazz Festival (photo by Kevin Peterson):
2013 – swing dance (photo by Ben Weinstein):
2004 Publicity shot – a few months after arriving in Melbourne (photo by Lisa Ray):
Publicity shot – leader of the Red Hot Rhythmakers (photo by Gavin Anderson):
Onstage at Melbourne Town Hall:
Award-winning swing quartet (and old mates) the Sweet Lowdowns:
Playing bass saxophone:
Swing tenor:
Playing mentor Ade Monsbourgh’s Grafton plastic alto sax, courtesy of the Austalian Jazz Museum:
Incredible US/Australian band the Hot Jazz Alliance:
Righteously hot jazz, with Australian jazz legend Neil Macbeth on washboard:
After hours session in the outback with Josh Duffee and Leigh Barker:
Whitley Bay 2012:
