Pianist/composer Steve Russell made his Melbourne debut in 2008 with an impressive trio of Byron Bay- based musicians who also teach at the Southern Cross University.

Russell, who comes from a family of gifted musicians, had been an in-demand pianist/arranger in the Brisbane scene, with over twenty years of extensive sideman experience with international and Australian jazz artists such as Gerry Mulligan, Richie Cole, Chuck Findlay, Georgie Fame, James Morrison, Dale Barlow, Mark Simmonds, Bernie McGann, Tommy Emmanuel, Don Burrows and George Golla, with jazz CDs such as Jim Kellys' Salient Points.

On this visit he performs his originals, as well as some standards, with Ben Robertson (bass) and Dave Beck (drums), together with guest guitarist James Sherlock (who he worked with often when Sherlock was based in Brisbane).