**FREE ENTRY // FRONT BAR GIG** Michael Griffin Trio
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When?
23 August 2025 starting 8:00 am
What?
Michael Griffin- Alto Sax
Sam O'Halloran- Guitar
Ben Hanlon- Bass
"Griffin started his own band when he was 18 and began performing at different venues around Sydney. Over the years he's played at many places around Australia including Brisbane (Doo-Bop Jazz Bar), Perth (The Ellington) and Melbourne (The Jazz Lab). He also appears regularly at Sydney's Foundry 616." -Sydney Morning Herald
"One of Australia’s finest saxophonists"- Nik Fotakis (Australian Jazz)
“What he has achieved ensures anextremely bright future.” – Jimmy Heath (USA)
“He Flaunts an assertive tone, with an advanced harmonic sensibility and technical fluency that confirm his reverence to Bird and Cannonball Adderley”- Bob Doerschuk (Downbeat Magazine)
"He truly has a gift for expression" - Bobby Watson (USA)"Griffin leads a quartet that knows how to get off the ground- that is, how to swing"- Eric Myers (The Australian)
I had the pleasure of playing with Michael Griffin in Australia this past August. He is a musician with great reverence for history and a modern style all his own-such an inspiring cat!- Eric Alexander
Sam O'Halloran- Guitar
Ben Hanlon- Bass
"Griffin started his own band when he was 18 and began performing at different venues around Sydney. Over the years he's played at many places around Australia including Brisbane (Doo-Bop Jazz Bar), Perth (The Ellington) and Melbourne (The Jazz Lab). He also appears regularly at Sydney's Foundry 616." -Sydney Morning Herald
"One of Australia’s finest saxophonists"- Nik Fotakis (Australian Jazz)
“What he has achieved ensures anextremely bright future.” – Jimmy Heath (USA)
“He Flaunts an assertive tone, with an advanced harmonic sensibility and technical fluency that confirm his reverence to Bird and Cannonball Adderley”- Bob Doerschuk (Downbeat Magazine)
"He truly has a gift for expression" - Bobby Watson (USA)"Griffin leads a quartet that knows how to get off the ground- that is, how to swing"- Eric Myers (The Australian)
I had the pleasure of playing with Michael Griffin in Australia this past August. He is a musician with great reverence for history and a modern style all his own-such an inspiring cat!- Eric Alexander
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