Guitar Night at Banshees

Lee Jones
Lee Jones is a British jazz guitarist and composer, combining influences from modern jazz, fusion, blues, avant-garde and rock styles. Lee has regularly performed throughout the UK scene and recorded/performed/studied alongside Larry Coryell, Martin Taylor and Mike Stern.Since graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Course in 2007, he has released seven solo albums with former WEA producer Simon Tittley and in 2019 completed a PhD in music composition at the University of Salford, Manchester.Lee now resides in Australia where he is active in live performance, recording and music education/research. Lee released his latest solo guitar project, 'A World Away', in late 2023 and was a finalist in the 2025 Made in New York Jazz Competition, winning the category for Best Solo Instrumentalist.
Tonight, Lee will be returning to Banshee's with a stellar quintet of Brisbane's finest improvising musicians for an evening of high-energy jazz-rock originals with blues guitar inflections throughout.
Featuring:
Lee Jones - Guitar
Ben Ward - Saxes
Lochlan Feng - Keyboards
Blake Lonie - Bass
Dom Machen - Drums
'an excellent composer and one heck of a guitarist' - Larry Coryell
'...a fully developed personal style...' - The Observer
'...an emerging talent ***...' - Jazzwise Magazine
'...tuneful originals and fluent solos...' - London Evening Standard

Joseph Rabjohns
Joseph Rabjohns is a Brisbane based guitarist, composer, educator and community builder. His passion for creative music is a result of years spent crafting his practice composing and performing with his longtime musical collaborators (Kodiak Empire, Kieran T. Stevenson, Last Lakes, Shoal) As well as staying busy contributing all he can to these projects, he’s been developing a unique catalog of solo works for guitar. This performance is the world premiere of these works which have been collated into an album to released by Made Now Music.The music is heavily concerned with the exploration of through-composed melody and harmony and takes a great deal of influence from the worlds of post rock, ambient and progressive music, as well as modern Jazz guitarists such as Pat Metheny and Ben Monder.