Nathan Haines Family Album

London-based jazz saxophonist Nathan Haines returns home to perform with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, where he's accompanied by his bassist father, Kevin, and guitarist brother, Joel in a musical family reunion. They've followed different paths since the mid-80s when Nathan was 14 and they used to play as a trio (seen here in archive footage). The NZSO concert features standards and new songs from the brothers. This documentary backgrounds those songs, and follows the tricky business of melding jazz group and orchestra in rehearsal and concert. 

To be asked to play with the 80-piece orchestra just blew me away, but then I had to actually turn it into a reality which has been the hard part.

– Nathan Haines

Key Cast & Crew

Joel Haines

Subject

Grant Lahood

Director, Camera

John Keir

Producer

Mark Storey

Sound

Victoria Kelly

Subject

Brendon Dixon

Camera Operator