The performance punctuated with stories, musical challenges and humour. The duo play on Wednesday, June 12, at Adamstown Uniting Church 7.30pm.

Pianist Jef Neve is internationally acclaimed across pop, classical and jazz music. His composition credits include a string of contemporary jazz albums, award-winning movie and TV series, soundtrack orchestrations and a piano concerto. Check out Anthem for Our Fathers on YouTube to see what he is capable of.

Since the early 2000s Neve has been supporting pop and jazz singers, creating jazz interpretations of songs from The Beatles to Joni Mitchell, nails Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and writes and performs original solo and group contemporary jazz pieces. A relentless composer and performer, he features in dozens of YouTube clips.

Neve first visited Newcastle in 2010 when his trio performed at the Adamstown Uniting Church to a standing ovation. He returned in 2013 for a solo performance on the locally made Stuart and Sons piano. The show was described by Stuart and Sons founder and piano manufacturer Wayne Stuart as "The greatest concert of my life - so far" more...