The John Hardaker Direction

About Me

the john hardaker direction is a jazz-blues combo from sydney, australia. built around the guitar work, compositions and arrangements of jazz guitarist john hardaker, it was formed in january 2007. a veteran of the sydney scene, john has been playing rock, blues and jazz all his life. unwilling to go in just one narrow direction he has brought them all together in his new group, the john hardaker direction. the music has over the last year evolved into a very soulful brew of blues-tinged jazz-funk with one foot rooted firmly in the past and the other kicking at the envelope.

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Member Since: 8/4/2007
Band Website: right here; right now
Band Members: john hardaker: guitar,plus (at various times) hans kieft: bass, dom o'leary: drums, crystal moloney: flute, jonathan tyne: vibes, virgil reality: trumpet, flugelhorn, Bb baritone horn (www.beingvirgil.com/music.php), adrian kyneur: percussion, michael luke: tenor sax, don perri: drums, andrew symonds: alto sax, j rekadrah: bass, bill crossland: bass, damian bluett: drums, justin buckingham: alto sax (www.jbjazz.com.au)
Influences: grant green, wes montgomery, pat martino, larry coryell, denny dias, john mclaughlin, frank zappa, jeff beck, jan akkerman, barney kessel, chick corea, miles davis, wayne shorter, steely dan, gil evans, bela bartok, igor stravinsky, sergei prokofiev, john robinson, john abercrombie, jimi hendrix, anyone who ever made the air in my ear vibrate
Sounds Like: bluesy jazz, jazzy blues, funked up swing, swung funk - purples, deep turquoise greens and cool blues shot through with hard red strokes.
Record Label: Jive Circus Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

wisdom of wayne

some of the words of wisdom of wayne shorter"You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he s...
Posted by The John Hardaker Direction on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:35:00 PST

ornette coleman live and dangerous

last night i went to see ornette coleman at the the sydney opera house (second row centre (thanx kate!!). he played with his son, denardo, on drums and three bassists - a bowed acoustic, a funky fretl...
Posted by The John Hardaker Direction on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:48:00 PST

a thought for musicians (and all creative artists)

Does the statement, "We've always done it like that" ring any bells?The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that ga...
Posted by The John Hardaker Direction on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:49:00 PST

zawinul

woke up this morning to an email from a friend saying that joseph zawinul had died aged 75.this is very sad news to me as zawinul has been one of the larger characters looming in my landscape of moder...
Posted by The John Hardaker Direction on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:20:00 PST

session

last night the "cool" lineup of the JHD - dom and hans and john and crystal on flute and jon tyne on vibraphone - went into the JMC studios on elizabeth street and put down a handful of tracks. once w...
Posted by The John Hardaker Direction on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:01:00 PST

hunter and wagner

just a short note to register the thrill i got when steve hunter and dick wagner became my myspace friends ( a special note of thanx to ed supple who helped with the process).hunter and wagner are 2 b...
Posted by The John Hardaker Direction on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:32:00 PST

the horn section

well, last night the JHD played for the first time with the horn section - virgil on trumpet and justin on alto. and it was a buzz. it could not have worked - the two could have taken a dislike to eac...
Posted by The John Hardaker Direction on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:33:00 PST