Jazz Clubs Serie - 9

Based in Noosa Heads Queensland, the band is in demand for festivals, corporate work and private functions, having performed at the QPAC, Jimbour House Dalby, Southbank Piazza, Bellingen Jazz Festival, The Marina Mirage Jazz Festival, Bribie Island Jazz Weekend, Brisbane Jazz Club Carnival, Magnetic Island Jazz Festival, Alice Springs, Noosa Jazz Festival, Norfolk Island Jazz Festival, Dubbo Jazz Festival and The Gold Coast Jazz Festival. From the Gold Coast to Townsville, the boys are likely to pop up anywhere, as far afield as Sydney, The Hunter Valley, Lismore or the Pioneer Festival and Agricultural Show at Nanango.

The "Factory" broke historic ground being the first Queensland based traditional band to tour South, visiting Merimbula and Melbourne. The band appearing at Caulfield RSL, The Victorian Jazz Club and Kyneton "Jazz By The Riverside".



In 2008 The band toured Europe playing at the Dresden Dixieland Jazz Festival, Berlin, Apeldoorn, Holland and Sothern England.

The Band uses a wide range of material with over 600 songs in its repertoire. Whether conducting a sing along whilst strolling through one of Noosa's best restaurants in Hastings St., playing their now famous weekly Jazz Cruise every Tuesday on the Noosa River or giving a concert for thousands at festivals, the Jazz Factory gives every performance their best. They have played on planes, boats, mountaintop weddings, hardware stores and on the back of a truck! Like a good red wine this band travels well!

The Jazz Factory draws its inspiration from an earlier era of love songs, rip roaring jazz and great fun times. If you like Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin and Duke Ellington, you will love this band! Three of the band members sing so you won't, go short of some great vocals. One of the great delights of this band is the clean sound and harmonic balance achieved by the musician's compatibility, no doubt partially as a result of the many gigs played together. If your venue has a “noise problem” the band plays acoustically (no electricity at all) however they are at home with a PA set up and have performed at large outdoor concerts (the most recent for 1000 patrons at the Brisbane City Hall). The band line-up is:
Ian Denovan: Trumpet, cornet, vocal
Peter Strokhorb: Clarinet and baby soprano sax
Greg Garrett: Banjo, vocal
Richard Stevens: Sousaphone and leader
The Jazz Factory uses a wide range of material with over 600 songs in its repertoire