2 Five 9

“2 FIVE 9” is an innovative modern approach to jazz and contemporary music.
Every musician in this ensemble has had over 25 years experience in music and has decided collectively to approach jazz “….without limitations”.

“2 FIVE 9” plays music from nearly all eclectic genres of jazz, allowing themselves the freedom to experiment in both improvisation and arrangements, without limiting themselves to either standards, fusion, modern jazz, Latin-jazz or any derivative of jazz.

“2FIVE9 is a breath of fresh air in an environment that has become well characterised by single style imitation, yet maintaining all the elements of jazz we have come to know and love”

Peter Woods

Peter Wood has been a renowned New Zealand vibraphone player and pianist for many years.

Peter has worked with nearly every major jazz artist of renown throughout New Zealand in most of the majority of Auckland's venues and festivals, as well as many of the major blues and jazz festivals.

Peter Wood approaches music with a unique and “outside of the square” vibrancy that enhances and compliments the sound.

Andy Atwill

Andy Atwill hails originally from Sydney, Australia, and has worked with artists such as: Mike Nock, Warren Daly Big Band. He founded the Australian Composition Ensemble, was in the recently reformed “Dr.Tree”, and has lived in Boston Massachusetts where he studied and jammed with many artists such as Miroslav Vitous, Pat Metheny, and Gary Burton. Andy holds a Masters Degree in Jazz with 1^st Class Honours from the University of Auckland.

He recently has released the acclaimed “3 Sides of the Same Coin” which has been nominated for NZ Jazz Album of the Year”, that features artists from all over the world such as Adrian Mears, Peter Escovedo and Greg Heath.

Greg Tell

Greg Tell hails originally from Los Angeles, California, and has worked with artists such as: Hugh Masekela, Renee Geyer, Marcia Hines, NZ’s current famous Anonymouz hip hop group, Suzanne Prentice, Andrew Lloyd Webber in London and many more.

Greg Tell has just recently come back from the 42nd St. Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, where he performed to sell-out crowds. Greg is now with the 2FIVE9 trio and is looking forward to the Queenstown Jazz Festival this October 2010.