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Austin Di Pietro

The Scornful Four

Active since: 2023

The Scornful Four is a multi-generational jazz quartet from Meanjin that features repertoire that is entrenched in the history of jazz with a uniquely Australian approach, evoking the incomparable vast landscapes and vistas of our home.

This group reveres the bleak counterpoints of the classic Mulligan-Baker Quartet, and the jazz hero-worship continues with nods to the legendary pianoless groups of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane’s fiery 1960s ensembles. But the enigmatic beauty and undeniably Australian rasp of Bernie McGann, the intensity of Mark Simmonds and Scott Tinkler, and the genre-breaking excursions of Sandy Evans are the prevailing elemental sounds that drive the Scornful Four to bring you new explorations of the jazz vernacular. 

Grant D Richards

Born: 1990

Grant Richards is an award-winning pianist, composer, and educator based in New York. A native of Portland, Oregon, he began playing piano at the age of eight and enrolled at Berklee College of Music on a full-tuition Jimmy Lyons Scholarship in 2009. He has since performed with Grammy award-winning artists Esperanza Spalding, Eddie Gomez, and Terri Lyne Carrington, as well as luminaries Simon Phillips, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Valerie Simpson.

A prolific bandleader and composer, Grant has released four albums as a leader over the past ten years to critical acclaim while performing extensively in the US and abroad. Over a career spanning two decades, Grant’s skillful versatility as a pianist and educator has brought him around the world, spending extensive time based in India and Japan before settling in NYC.

Luciano Soriano

Born: May 18, 2006

Luciano Soriano is a trombonist and composer/arranger based in New York City, NY. Luciano is interested in all types of music and art forms and derives his creativity from everything he encounters. He is a commissioned composer for the Juilliard School Green Club, where he is currently pursuing his BM in Jazz Trombone. He leads his own quintet, and has recently released his debut record, "New Places, Old Faces".

Luciano gives back to the community through holding clinics at high schools around his hometown, running jam sessions geared toward cultivating community, and by teaching privately.

Alba Careta

Alba Careta is a jazz trumpeter and singer born in Avinyó (Catalonia) in 1995. After finishing her studies in the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague and the prestigious Conservatorium Van Amsterdam, she returned to Catalonia.

Despite her young age, she has released five albums as a leader: Orígens (2018), Alades (2020), Teia (2023), Udolç (2023), and Panical (2026), where she combines her own compositions with music rooted in Catalan traditions. With these different albums, she has performed in renowned venues and prestigious festivals such as Jazzahead (Bremen, Germany), Saalfelden Jazz Festival (Saalfelden, Austria), Jazzaldia (Donostia, Spain), Bimhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Opus Jazz Club (Budapest, Hungary), the Madrid International Jazz Festival, the Eivissa Jazz Festival… among many others.

Joshua Moshe

Joshua Moshe is an award-winning saxophonist, composer, and educator based in Melbourne. Born in South Africa and raised in New Zealand, he spent his formative years immersed in the musical cultures of both countries before relocating to Melbourne in 2010. Over the past 15 years, Joshua has emerged as a leading figure in Australia’s contemporary jazz scene, recognised for a distinctive artistic voice that blends the traditional musics of his upbringing with contemporary expressive forms.

Rooted in jazz, his work draws on diverse influences, from hip-hop and electronica to the folk traditions of his ancestry. Joshua synthesises and transforms these elements, embracing the improvisatory and expressive qualities of jazz to create music that is both innovative and deeply connected to tradition.

Jeanette Lindström

Born: May 29, 1971

Jeanette Lindström is the jazz singer that prompted legendaryproducer Quincy Jones to voice the portentous words: "Anold soul in a young singer". And also: "She really understandswhat jazz is all about!" The year was 1995 and JeanetteLindström made her major breakthrough, on a broad front.The calendar tells us it’s now a different year, and todayJeanette Lindström is one of Sweden's most prized jazzsingers.

Jeanette Lindström is one of Sweden’s leading jazzsingers and composers. In January she won a SwedishGrammis for Best Jazz Album of the Year with her latestalbum "Attitude & Orbit Control".She has that ability to set the imagination of the listener inmovement - with her voice, her music as well as with herwords. Her sixth solo album Attitude & Orbit Control is hardproof. A space odessey of sorts, interpersonal as well asinterstellar. Micro- as well as macrocosmic forces at play.Fellow travelers include co-writing guest vocalist RobertWyatt, a new band and new co-producer and drummerMagnus �-ström of e.s.t. as well as lyric contributor SidselEndresen. Jeanette Lindström wanted to move on, this timefurther than before. To write in a new way, to concentratemore on production and instrumentation. She wanted it toreally be "Jeanette-music", whatever that would sound like.

James Wengrow

Born: October 26, 1989

James Wengrow is a Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer from Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. Fusing idioms while maintaining a distinguishable sonic personality, James’ output has been described as “A sprightly collage of experimental jazz, heavy prog, math rock, and neoclassical music...The perfect stop-over for curious rock fans looking to branch to jazz and visa versa" (Bandcamp Daily), and “delving deep into territory that is as much Fugazi as it is [Miles] Davis... a blazing intensity to the heavier passages neatly offset by occasional moments of shimmering beauty” (Sonic Abuse).  Drawing similarities to Ornette Coleman and the Avant-garde, All About Jazz states “...[James’] music summons the same tumult, or at least the same clamor felt in the early 1960s... the spirit and energy of those times is unmistakable.”

Josh Warren

Born: March 6, 2004

Rooted in the jazz tradition but drawing influences from all over the map, Josh Warren is an award-winning Canadian bassist, composer, and arranger originally hailing from Victoria, BC. Since moving to Toronto to study with Canada’s finest, he’s shared the stage and recorded with a plethora of Grammy-nominated and JUNO award-winning musicians (including Ingrid Jensen, Jeremy Ledbetter, Rich Brown, Allison Au, and Joaquin Nunez) and performed all across the country, playing at iconic venues and major festivals from coast to coast. 

His debut album “The Path”  (engineered and mixed by JUNO award-winner Patric McGroarty) will be out everywhere on August 22nd, 2026, and features an award-winning cast of young lions on the Canadian jazz scene, and blends the jazz tradition with shades of Pat Metheny, Stevie Wonder and Snarky Puppy

EMP Project

William Ellis, Joseph Patrick Moore and Shawn Perkinson first met while attending the University of Tennessee in Knoxville between the years of 1989-1994.

While attending U.T.K., William Ellis, Joseph Patrick Moore and Shawn Perkinson would play regularly together in a variety of settings. Upon graduating U.T.K. their opportunities and talents would lead each of them to different parts of the United States and abroad. While they would keep in touch, they wouldn't play together again for many years. That all changed in 2002, when EMP Project assembled together for the first time in more than a decade. They captured this magical meeting on their self-titled debut CD,"E.M.P. Project" released in 2003.