$30.00 – $35.00

Jody Sternberg and fellow Australian David Lewis team up with Melbourne pianist and master accompanist Mark Fitzgibbon to interpret an eclectic repertoire, mixing French chansons, jazz standards and original compositions. Lewis’ melodic, colourful trumpet and flugelhorn interweave effortlessly with Sternberg’s warm voice and feeling for lyric in a playful repertoire, mixing languages and transcending musical borders.

Australian singer songwriter Jody Sternberg has collaborated with Paris – based artists such as Arthur H, The Marathonians and Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague) as well as fronting British trip-hop group Morcheeba for their Antidote
international tour after co-writing the single “Wonders Never Cease”.

Sternberg grew up in Sydney, but as a teenager moved to Japan and played in clubs where she was noticed by visiting US musicians, leading her to study saxophone with Bill Pierce at Berklee College of Music. After moving to Paris, her warm contralto voice gradually became Sternberg’s main instrument. Nevertheless her lyrical saxophone remains a feature of her performances. For the past few years she has been a regular fixture in Paris jazz venues, leading a quartet with French jazz piano legend Alain Jean-Marie.

Her duo album with Jean-Marie, Castles in the Sand released in June 2023. She also leads a quintet with fellow Australian David Lewis (Paris Combo) on trumpet and flugelhorn, paying tribute to cabaret icon Eartha Kitt.

Australian-born trumpeter, pianist and composer David Lewis is co-founder of the internationally renowned group Paris Combo, with which he recorded nine albums and performed world-wide over a 25-year period until the untimely death of the group’s singer-songwriter Belle du Berry in 2020. Originally coming to France to study at the Paris Conservatoire, Lewis later toured and recorded extensively with African-jazz legend Manu Dibango. He has also performed and recorded with a diverse array of Paris-based artists including Arthur H, Gianmaria Testa, Marc
Perrone, Maurane, Carla Bruni, Lokua Kanza, Cabaret Sauvage, l’Orchestre dela Lune, John Greaves and, most recently with veteran choreographer Philippe Decouflé.