Brisbane International Jazz Festival 2017

Overview

If smooth, often improvised sounds get your toes tapping, then the Brisbane International Jazz Festival probably gets your heart racing. Where else can you celebrate experimental melodies and witness some of the best musicians in the world? Or move and groove to what just might be one-off performances.

That's the joy of jazz: no show is ever the same. There's so much in the festival's fifth-year program that you probably won't get to test that — but you will get to enjoy the talents of an impressive array of performers from around the country, plus a few international guests.

Local hotshots including the Mal Wood Bowery Hot Five, the Jo David Quartet and the Wild Silk Strings Project are certain to be a highlight, as are a dose of global sounds courtesy of the USA's Kenny Barron Trio and Tigran Hamasyan from Armenia.