Dave Panichi Big Band

Marrickville local and Lazybones regular, Dave Panichi, is internationally respected as a virtuoso lead trombonist, soloist and session player and as Australia’s leading jazz composer and arranger.

Infused with the exhilaration and influences of the two decades he spent living and working in New York, Dave’s original compositions and arrangements have been performed and recorded by, among many others, the Buddy Rich Big Band, The Village Vanguard Orchestra, Blood Sweat & Tears, James Morrison, The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra (JMO), Ralph Pyl’s Sydney All¬ Star Big Band, Ten Part Invention and the Danish Radio Big Band.

Dave has recently returned from the US, where he recorded “Paradigm”, a DVD of his original big band compositions and arrangements performed live by the Dave Panichi New York Jazz Orchestra, an all-star group he assembled of New York’s finest players.

The Dave Panichi Big Band, brings together some of Australia’s most dynamic emerging and established musicians to perform his music the way it demands to be played—with passion, groove and soul!