Graham has had a prolific career as a performer, composer and producer. He is an accomplished saxophonist and flutist and for 18 years Graham played in the Channel 9 Midday Show studio orchestra. Also as one of the staff arrangers for Channel 9 during this period, he wrote numerous arrangements and orchestrations for a wide range of performers. 

​The Sydney Musician’s Union voted Graham most outstanding studio woodwind instrumentalist as part of the Bicentennial Music Week Awards, and his composition “Shoalhaven Sunrise” (recorded by the award-winning Sydney All Star Big Band) received an APRA nomination for Most Performed Australian Jazz Work. 

​Graham has a distinguished recording career, having recorded with many artists including Tommy Emmanuel, Tom Burlinson, Silverchair, Anthony Warlow and Kerrie Biddell, as well as releasing several albums as band leader.

Recording Credits

Graham Jesse and Adrian Cunningham, “BLOW”

Graham Jesse, “In The Flow” & “Reflections”

Sydney All Star Big Band, “Doin’ Our Thing” & “Pyldriver”

Bonnie J Jensen, “Lucky So & So” & “S H I M M E R”

Helen Fenton, “The Simple Life” and “Come Away With Me”

Anthony Warlow, “Face The Music”

Silverchair, “Diorama”

Pamela Knowles, “Boite de Jazz” & “Love Dance”

Frank Bennett, “Cash Landing”

David Campbell, “Yesterday is Now”

Kerrie Biddell, “The Singer”

Gondwana, “Travelling”

Grace Knight, “Gracious” & “Stormy Weather”

Tommy Emmanuel, “Dare to be Different” & “Up from Down Under”

Marc Hunter, “Night and Day”

Bruce Cale, “The Bruce Cale Orchestra Live at The Basement”

Compared to What, “Compared to What featuring Kerrie Biddell”

Daly Wilson Big Band, “Too Good for a One Night Stand”