Nick is a strong musician and talented bass player who started playing
music at the age of five on guitar and piano. He has been heavily
involved with music since then. He studied at the New Zealand School
of Music, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Music Degree
specialising in Jazz Performance on electric bass, upright bass and
trombone. Since graduation, Nick has been associated with
international bands such as the Andrea Lisa Band, Tahuna Breaks, dDub
and the Rodger Fox Big Band. He has also been a member of the Auckland
Jazz Orchestra, Queen City Big Band and the New Zealand School of
Music Big Band.

The night will be a combination of his own compositions, arrangements
and tunes of artists he has been influenced by.

Band featuring:-

 Nick Taylor - bass

Lenny Church - Drums

Stallone D'Souza - Keys

Ryan La Vallette - Sax/Guitar

Kristin Paulse – vocals (special guest)

 ADDITIONAL BIO

Over the years, Nick has performed with some of New Zealand’s finest
jazz musicians, such as Rodger Fox, Ray Wolf, Erna Ferry, Alan Brown,
Phil Broadhurst and Kevin Field to name a few. He has also performed
with international Jazz artists Allen Vizzutti, John Fedchock, Steve
Houghton, Thijs Van Leer (Focus) and Kym Perling to name a few.

Nick has performed at many festivals throughout Australia and New
Zealand, such as the Coloundra Music Festival and Poly Festival in
Australia, the New Zealand National Jazz and Blues Festival, The
Nelson Jazz Festival, Mission Bay Jazz and Blues Streetfest, Auckland
Music in the Parks in New Zealand. He also performed at the Fiji Jazz
Festival in 2011.

Relocating to Australia beginning of 2012, he performed at several
venues in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. In February 2012, he
had the privilege of being part of the supporting act for Grammy
Nominated artist Jonathan Butler.

Over the past seven years he has been touring the world primarily with
recording artist Andrea Lisa. During this time he has completed many
performance

Members $5

Non-members $15