Chris Ludowyk

Chris Ludowyk (born 6 March 1944) is a jazz trombonist and bandleader in Melbourne, Victoria. His band, the Society Syncopators, was known for their "good humour, rollicking music and audience response", and as a favorite of Graeme Bell.

History Ludowyk was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia as a child, in 1962 moving with his family to Geelong, where he became involved in the thriving jazz scene, playing trombone with the Crescent city Jazz Band from 1964, the Green Horse Jazz Band from 1965 and the Baton Rouge Jazz Band from 1966. By the time they recorded New Harlem Live Before a Recorded Audience, Chris Farley had taken over banjo and Richard Opat on drums.

He formed the Prahran Market Jazz Band in 1980. which later that year closed due to the building's impending demolition. They then moved to the Emerald Hotel in South Melbourne.

Renamed The Syncopators, the band released several albums with leader Ludowyk on trombone and vocals, Peter Gaudion on trumpet and vocals, Richard Miller (previously with The Red Onion Jazz Band) on reeds and vocals, Stephen Grant on piano, James Clark on bass and tuba and Rod Gilbert on drums, also vocals.