Nick Haywood is an Australian jazz double bassist, composer, and music educator in Melbourne.
He has worked with Don Burrows, Dale Barlow, Paul Grabowsky, Bernie McGann, and James Morrison, and with many international jazz musicians, including Nat Adderley, Buddy Greco, Kenny Kirkland, Claire Martin, Jack Parnell, Mark Murphy and Petra Haden. He has been featured on over 100 albums.Nick Haywood (Bass) The Music Place: Stax of Sax. Retrieved 16 November 2008Move Records, Nick Haywood, Move Records website artist profile, Retrieved 16 November 2008http://www.nmit.vic.edu.au/highered/haywood/default.html , Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE website. Retrieved 16 November 2008
Early life Born in 1961, Haywood first started playing an electric bass guitar at eight years of age but did not consider undertaking a career as a professional musician. In 1976 he started playing double bass. After finishing school he worked in a brewery and a tin mine.Media release, Nick Haywood , Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE website 5 November 2001. Retrieved 16 November 2008
In his mid 20s he enrolled in a Diploma of Music course at the Victorian College of the Arts and graduated in 1988.
Music career In 1999 Haywood was nominated for two ARIA Music Awards: for Best Jazz Recording for Sudden in a Shaft of Sunlight by Browne-Haywood-Stevens and Best Adult Contemporary for Beat Club by The Black Sorrows.
The Melbourne International Arts Festival has provided several opportunities to showcase Haywood's composing and performing talents. In 2001 he performed with his band Dodge in the Spiegeltent.
An anniversary concert of John Sangster's Lord of the Rings at the Malvern Town Hall in 2003 also featured Haywood with many of the original musicians.
Haywood, Eugene Ball, and Andrea Keller were the nucleus of the eleven-piece Bennetts Lane Big Band, which was formed in 2001.Jessica Nicholas, Band plays, stays, The Age, 6 February 2008, Retrieved 13 November 2008 The band has been described by the National Library of Australia as "Melbourne's premier large contemporary jazz ensemble" and " some of Australia's most celebrated improvisers and composers."'National Library of Australia, The snip (sound recording) / Bennette Lane Big Band, Catalogue record, Retrieved 13 November 2008
A grant from the Alan C. Rose Memorial Project in 2004 enabled Haywood to study in New York City with American jazz bassists Gary Peacock and Rufus Reid. Later that year he completed a Master of Music Performance degree at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Music education career Haywood has been a music lecturer in the Performing Arts Department at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) since 2001.
With the establishment of the Bachelor of Australian Popular Music course at NMIT in 2007, he became Head of Program/Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at NMIT. He also teaches privately, and conducts master classes at festivals and institutions around Australia and internationally.
A 2005 agreement between NMIT and the Beijing Midi School of Music, a private music school in Beijing focussing on modern music genres, resulted in Haywood establishing a ten-week music program and teaching the Advanced Diploma of Music Performance to students in Beijing, as well as the opportunity to perform in various Beijing Jazz clubs. He was one of the prominent performers at the 2005 Beijing Jazz Festival.NMIT Performing Arts Department, NMIT in China , NMIT Performing Arts Department news Blog, 25 May. 2005. Retrieved 16 November 2008Antonis Shen, Nick Haywood at the 2005 Beijing Jazz Festival, Flickr.com, 15 May 2005. Retrieved 16 November 2008
Discography Albums + List of albums, with selected details Title Details King, Dude and Dunce (as Browne Haywood Stevens) Released: 1996 Format: CD Label: Newmarket Music Sudden in a Shaft of Sunlight (as Browne Haywood Stevens) Released: 1998 Format: CD Label: ABC Jazz (4978632) Live at Bennett's Lane (with Robert Burke, Tony Gould & Tony Floyd) Released: 2002 Format: CD Label: ABC Jazz 1234 (as Nick Haywood Quartet) Released: 2011 Format: CD, digital Label: Jazzhead (HEAD147) 2 Pinots, 2 Pales, 2 Hours (with Ted Vining & Tony Gould) Released: June 2015 Format: Digital Label: Move Many Rivers (as Nick Haywood Trio) Released: 2017 Format: CD, digital Label: Jazzhead (HEAD232) Songs from My Father (as Nick Haywood Quintet with Petra Haden) Released: September 2020 Format: digital Label: ABC Back to the Garden (with Petra Haden) Released: September 2021 Format: digital Label: Nick Hayward
Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.
! |- | 1999 | Sudden in a Shaft of Sunlight (with Browne and Stevens) |rowspan="2"| Best Jazz Album | |rowspan="2"| ARIA Award previous winners. |- | 2021 | Songs from My Father (with Petra Haden)
References
External links Nick Haywood at the 2005 Beijing Jazz Festival - Photos by Antonis Shen on Flickr.com