Adam's current ensembles are:
Adam Simmons Toy Band
Adam Simmons Quartet<
New Blood
Kynan Robinson's En Rusk
bucketrider
Bennetts Lane Big Band
Marc Hannafords Sextet
Steve Purcell's Pearly Shells
Since graduating from VCA in 1992 Adam has worked in numerous groups in most of the major venues in Melbourne as well as having had opportunities to tour internationally. Some of the more well known ones include: US saxophonist Odean Pope's Saxophone Choir, Paul Grabowsky's Australian Art Orchestra, The Engine Room (Sydney), Tom Mawi (Fiji) and Michel Benebig (New Caledonia), Graham Barker, Compared to What, Burst, Funken Wagnells, Edward York Trio/Quintet, Cacique, Zydeco Jump, Ted White Big Band, Sculpting Time.
Here is a start to some of the longer list I've been promising - most are bands or people I regularly played with, some are just one-offs:
About Time (first recording of me at about 13 by 3BBB), Rotating Toaster and the Sesame Seed Band (won a battle of the bands in Ballarat and beat The Mavis's), Sebaclear Stage Band, Welcome Stranger Concert Band (first ensemble I think), Fat Cat, Crunchy Fungus, The First Deadly Serious Modern Jazz Quartet, The Fat Thing, The Dead Salesman (duo and Big Band), The Biggish Band, Axolotl, Beer and Skatals, Sheep Weather Alert, Mick Dog Experience, Terry Byrne, Greasy Pig, Round Midnight, Nightshift, Ivan Gellie Big Band, Barry Veith Big Band, Ted White BB, B# Big Band, McKinnon Big Band, Spiderbait, Spontaneous Human Combustion, Christbait, The Mavis's, Tim Davies Big Band, Jelly Bean Addiction, Lucky, Tanya Neisham's Blue remedy, Chubby Rae (with Jim Dyson), Andy Baylor, Paul Williamson, Grand Wazoo, Reverend Funka and the Horns of Salvation (and whatever it was called before that... Soulpreachers, that's right!), the group with Mick Tesiaro, Paul Simmons and myself, Doug Kelly's Off the Planet, Fogg, Feelin Groovies, Diana Kiss, Painters and Dockers, Miss Dorothy and her fools in love, The Committments (maybe not quite the name - an aussie cover band of a cover band - go figure!), Cacique, Bahia, Lapjack(?), Old Des Peres, isNod, Max and the Little Ensemble, that band with Andrew and the loudest drummer in the world, Brett (also our architect - bet no-one can get a copy of that tape recording!), Lani Zaitman (now, I'd like to get a copy of that CD), Janette Geri (and a couple of other Cloudburstz recordings), Shura B-2, Zulya, Chiron, The Swinging Sidewalks, Peter Knight Quintet, Andrew MacGregor, Oynsemble, Tibetan Dixie, Ted Vining Trio, Michael Sheridan's Tet Quintet, Sandy Evans, Bob Bertles, John Morrison (bet he doesn't remember that Jam session), Benny and the Fly-By-Nighters, Doctoy, The Free Wheelers, Boof, Exchange, Vertigo trio, The Arachnids, the quartet with Novak, Sarah and Csaba, Catharsis, No Bull, Honky Trash, The Essendon Policewoman's Marching Band, Frenzy, The Offenbach Dogs, Three Wise Men, Way Out West, David Chesworth Ensemble, Kate Neal ensemble things... ooh, that gig out near Shepparton with the bikies!
That's a start off the top of my head - if anyone remembers any others just send a quick message.