Nick Haywood

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.

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.

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 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."'

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.

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)

2021 Songs from My Father (with Petra Haden)