The Louise Denson Quintet

Salamanca Jazz is Live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane, with 
The Louise Denson Quintet (Phil Bywater, Stevie McEntee, Tom Robb and Jed Adams).
This will be a unique and special meeting of some of Hobart’s finest musical minds!

Saturday 26th July 2025
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre 

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Pianist/composer Louise Denson will enjoy the great privilege of presenting her rarely performed compositions for quintet with the powerful and expressive frontline of saxophonist Phil Bywater and trombonist Stevie McEntee. The exciting program will include On the Level (very funky), Who Knew Blues (now you know!), Lost My Heart (recorded by multi-Downbeat-poll-winning trombonist Bill Watrous), and many other melodious and groovy tunes.

Drummer Tom Robb and bassist Jed Adams complete the line-up.

You won’t want to miss it!

Louise is well known on the Hobart jazz scene leading her own groups and working with saxophonists Spike Mason, Ken Schroder and Jesse Bowden, and samba drummer Carlos Ferreira among others.  She has completed a number of extended composition projects, the most recent being Love Asunder with award-winning vocalist Elly Hoyt. Louise’s compositions have been widely performed and recorded, and she has played in festivals across Canada and Australia, and in the UK.

Phil has recently returned to Tasmania after many successful years in Melbourne as a player and educator. He led the bands Phil Bywater’s Buried Treasure Fallingwater Trio and Big Fela Afrobeat Orchestra and was a key member of many others. Phil’s performance experience is vast and diverse, encompassing reggae, funk, jazz, afrobeat, world music, free improv, punk, rock, musical theatre and contemporary classical music.

Stevie is a mover and shaker in the Hobart scene both as a player/composer/band leader and an arts administrator. Before settling in Hobart, Stevie toured internationally as a freelance musician. By day Stevie works as the co-founder and artistic director of the Lutruwita Art Orchestra and as co-artistic director of the Clarence Jazz Festival, by night they lead Hobart’s 12-piece all original Afrobeat dance band Baba Bruja and play trombone in the hugely popular reggae-fusion band Boil Up.

Please note that the Courtyard Lift IS OPERATING!

Doors & Bar open at 7pm

Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre.

Tickets are only $28 ea +BF, or buy two tix for $52+BF, or buy four tix for only $91+BF.

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This concert at Salamanca Arts Centre is support by Arts Tasmania's 2025 Arts Projects Fund. 
Salamanca Arts Centre is grateful for this support via Arts Tasmania and the Minister for the Arts.