Jon Hunt's Blue Devils
Jon Hunt’s Blue Devils are a Melbourne based band playing traditional and swing jazz. Led by reed player Jon Hunt, the band focuses on the music of Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington as well as other jazz luminaries of the 20s and 30s. During the years Jon spent living in New York he regularly played and recorded with Grammy winners Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks and toured throughout the US, Europe and Asia with Gordon Webster’s swing band. Jon recorded his album ‘House Rent Blues’ with many of the musicians from these bands, and continues to explore and expand this music with The Blue Devils. The band is joined on this occasion by vocalist Georgia Brooks to present an afternoon of swing classics.
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