They’re two P’s in a (mod) pod

TROMBONIST Tom Panckridge and guitarist Rowan Pattison will bridge the worlds of improvisational jazz and groove music when they play a one-off show in Hobart this weekend.

Active on the Australian jazz scene since the age of 14, Tom Panckridge has been nominated for an ARIA Award, performed with the likes of Gordon Goodwin, Wycliffe Gordon, James Morrison and Kate Ceberano, and appeared as a soloist at some of Australia’s best jazz venues.

As a member of the James Morrison Academy Jazz Orchestra, he has toured throughout Australia and across the US, where the band performed at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York and the Green Mill Jazz Club in Chicago, and with the Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Lab Band in Texas.

Now based in Melbourne, Rowan Pattison graduated from the University of Tasmanias with First Class Honours and has gone on to travel the world playing guitar, including leading his own trio on tour through Europe.

Performing everything from jazz to musical theatre, he has worked with the likes of Bobby Arvon ( Happy Days), Lou Gazzara ( American Idol), Marcus Terrel ( America’s Got Talent), James Stevens III ( The Tonight Show), Rob Johnson ( The Voice Australia) and many more.

Panckridge and Pattison will team up with local musicians Rit Coomber and Sasha Galvek to perform as the Panckridge/Pattison Quartet at The Homestead in North Hobart from 8.30pm on Saturday. Tickets are $10 at the door.