John Henderson **FREE GIG** at Edinburgh Castle Hotel (Brunswick)

John Henderson has an undeniably rich sense of jazz. They play like they got somewhere to be, like the music is taking them there whether they’re ready or not. A spectacle of originals, yet, in essence, music with inalienable characteristics; this band boasts a sound that Melbourne hasn’t seen in a local piano trio. Stalwarts of the 2010’s jazz-adjacent explosion, John Henderson sees it’s original founders, pianist Joshua “John” Smeltink and bassist Henry “Henderson” Hicks in their most cherished setting; alongside friend, ally and permanent fixture, Damien Ellis on drums; playing jazz of the firebrands.