Lee Jones Quintet
Joseph Rabjohns, Libby Myers & Lee Jones Quintet
Libby Myers & Joseph Rabjohns
The Junk Bar (New Farm, QLD)
Wednesday, 16 September 2026 6:30 pm
Join us for a very special evening of instrumental guitar at The Junk Bar featuring esteemed guitarists Joseph Rabjohns, Libby Myers and the Lee Jones Quintet.
Joseph Rabjohns
Joseph Rabjohns is a Brisbane based guitarist, composer, educator and community builder. His passion for creative music is a result of years spent crafting his practice composing and performing with his longtime musical collaborators (Kodiak Empire, Kieran T. Stevenson, Last Lakes, Shoal) As well as staying busy contributing all he can to these projects, he’s been developing a unique catalog of solo works for guitar. This performance is the world premiere of these works which have been collated into an album to released by Made Now Music.
The music is heavily concerned with the exploration of through-composed melody and harmony and takes a great deal of influence from the worlds of post rock, ambient and progressive music, as well as modern Jazz guitarists such as Pat Metheny and Ben Monder.
Libby Myers
Libby Myers is a guitarist, improvisor, composer, music researcher and educator based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia.
Known for her authentic, expressive performances of diverse repertoire, her concert programs span contemporary works for classical, steel string and electric guitars. Her performances explore the spaces between contemporary classical music, free improvisation, jazz and folk genres, regularly incorporating imaginative improvisation and electronic effects. It is in the ‘in-betweens’ where she feels most at home.
Libby has secured her reputation as a versatile and adventurous collaborator. She has a passion for contemporary music and experimentation, having given world premieres of solo, chamber and orchestral works for classical and electric guitar throughout Australia and abroad. She has worked with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Opera Queensland in the premiere of new opera, toured Australia and New Zealand with SIX: The Musical, post-classical indie septet Nonsemble, Rosa Guitar Trio, Riverside Guitar Ensemble, contemporary classical Postcards trio of UK-based Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean and in demand Australian pianist Alex Raineri, composer and visual artist Frankie Dyson-Reilly, electronic artist MJ O’Neill, and trombonist Brodie McAllister’s Wattle large jazz ensemble. She has mentored composition fellows at the Dots+Loops NONSTOP festival. Libby toured and performed throughout Australia with the Rosa Guitar Trio, who were artists-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The trio released the album Brasiliana which featured their signature interpretations of traditional Brazilian music and was supported by Musica Viva on a tour through regional Australia.
Her debut solo album Unfettered and Alive, released by Made Now Music, was shortlisted in the 2023 Queensland Music Awards. Her subsequent solo album Live at the Cave Inn features her own compositions, influenced inspired by Brazilian jazz, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, which were premiered and recorded in a solo concert at the 2024 Brisbane International Jazz Festival.
Libby’s research focuses on musical identities and experimentation through the lens of musical alchemy, using innovative artistic and narrative research methods. Her work explores methods centring the tacit knowledge of performers through artistic research and musicology, with recent projects examining materiality, meta-modernism and spirituality in music. She is a Senior Research Assistant at the Creative Arts Research Institute and Griffith Criminology Institute, working on projects that focus on the social impact of music in vulnerable communities.
Libby is an experienced and passionate music researcher and educator. She teaches guitar and music theory at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University and the University of Queensland. She teaches and directs award-winning student ensembles in high schools throughout Brisbane and through the Young Conservatorium outreach program. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Griffith University and masters degrees from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain, and the University of Queensland, where she researched on the application of acting techniques to musical performance.
Lee Jones
Lee Jones is a British jazz guitarist and composer, combining influences from modern jazz, fusion, blues, avant-garde and rock styles. Lee has regularly performed throughout the UK scene and recorded/performed/studied alongside Larry Coryell, Martin Taylor and Mike Stern.
Since graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Course in 2007, he has released seven solo albums with former WEA producer Simon Tittley and in 2019 completed a PhD in music composition at the University of Salford, Manchester.
Lee now resides in Australia where he is active in live performance, recording and music education/research. Lee released his latest solo guitar project, 'A World Away', in late 2023 and was a finalist in the 2025 Made in New York Jazz Competition, winning the category for Best Solo Instrumentalist.
Tonight, Lee will be returning to the Junk Bar with a stellar quintet of Brisbane's finest improvising musicians for an evening of high-energy jazz-rock originals with blues guitar inflections throughout.
Featuring:
Lee Jones - Guitar
Ben Ward - Saxes
Lachlan Feng - Keybboards
Blake Lonie - Bass
Sam Castan - Drums
'an excellent composer and one heck of a guitarist' - Larry Coryell
'...a fully developed personal style...' - The Observer
'...an emerging talent ***...' - Jazzwise Magazine
'...tuneful originals and fluent solos...' - London Evening Standard
Joseph Rabjohns
Joseph Rabjohns is a Brisbane based guitarist, composer, educator and community builder. His passion for creative music is a result of years spent crafting his practice composing and performing with his longtime musical collaborators (Kodiak Empire, Kieran T. Stevenson, Last Lakes, Shoal) As well as staying busy contributing all he can to these projects, he’s been developing a unique catalog of solo works for guitar. This performance is the world premiere of these works which have been collated into an album to released by Made Now Music.
The music is heavily concerned with the exploration of through-composed melody and harmony and takes a great deal of influence from the worlds of post rock, ambient and progressive music, as well as modern Jazz guitarists such as Pat Metheny and Ben Monder.
Libby Myers
Libby Myers is a guitarist, improvisor, composer, music researcher and educator based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia.
Known for her authentic, expressive performances of diverse repertoire, her concert programs span contemporary works for classical, steel string and electric guitars. Her performances explore the spaces between contemporary classical music, free improvisation, jazz and folk genres, regularly incorporating imaginative improvisation and electronic effects. It is in the ‘in-betweens’ where she feels most at home.
Libby has secured her reputation as a versatile and adventurous collaborator. She has a passion for contemporary music and experimentation, having given world premieres of solo, chamber and orchestral works for classical and electric guitar throughout Australia and abroad. She has worked with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Opera Queensland in the premiere of new opera, toured Australia and New Zealand with SIX: The Musical, post-classical indie septet Nonsemble, Rosa Guitar Trio, Riverside Guitar Ensemble, contemporary classical Postcards trio of UK-based Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean and in demand Australian pianist Alex Raineri, composer and visual artist Frankie Dyson-Reilly, electronic artist MJ O’Neill, and trombonist Brodie McAllister’s Wattle large jazz ensemble. She has mentored composition fellows at the Dots+Loops NONSTOP festival. Libby toured and performed throughout Australia with the Rosa Guitar Trio, who were artists-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The trio released the album Brasiliana which featured their signature interpretations of traditional Brazilian music and was supported by Musica Viva on a tour through regional Australia.
Her debut solo album Unfettered and Alive, released by Made Now Music, was shortlisted in the 2023 Queensland Music Awards. Her subsequent solo album Live at the Cave Inn features her own compositions, influenced inspired by Brazilian jazz, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, which were premiered and recorded in a solo concert at the 2024 Brisbane International Jazz Festival.
Libby’s research focuses on musical identities and experimentation through the lens of musical alchemy, using innovative artistic and narrative research methods. Her work explores methods centring the tacit knowledge of performers through artistic research and musicology, with recent projects examining materiality, meta-modernism and spirituality in music. She is a Senior Research Assistant at the Creative Arts Research Institute and Griffith Criminology Institute, working on projects that focus on the social impact of music in vulnerable communities.
Libby is an experienced and passionate music researcher and educator. She teaches guitar and music theory at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University and the University of Queensland. She teaches and directs award-winning student ensembles in high schools throughout Brisbane and through the Young Conservatorium outreach program. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Griffith University and masters degrees from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain, and the University of Queensland, where she researched on the application of acting techniques to musical performance.
Lee Jones
Lee Jones is a British jazz guitarist and composer, combining influences from modern jazz, fusion, blues, avant-garde and rock styles. Lee has regularly performed throughout the UK scene and recorded/performed/studied alongside Larry Coryell, Martin Taylor and Mike Stern.
Since graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Course in 2007, he has released seven solo albums with former WEA producer Simon Tittley and in 2019 completed a PhD in music composition at the University of Salford, Manchester.
Lee now resides in Australia where he is active in live performance, recording and music education/research. Lee released his latest solo guitar project, 'A World Away', in late 2023 and was a finalist in the 2025 Made in New York Jazz Competition, winning the category for Best Solo Instrumentalist.
Tonight, Lee will be returning to the Junk Bar with a stellar quintet of Brisbane's finest improvising musicians for an evening of high-energy jazz-rock originals with blues guitar inflections throughout.
Featuring:
Lee Jones - Guitar
Ben Ward - Saxes
Lachlan Feng - Keybboards
Blake Lonie - Bass
Sam Castan - Drums
'an excellent composer and one heck of a guitarist' - Larry Coryell
'...a fully developed personal style...' - The Observer
'...an emerging talent ***...' - Jazzwise Magazine
'...tuneful originals and fluent solos...' - London Evening Standard