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Can Jazz be saved? What will rebuild jazz audiences?

In a recent Huffington Post submission, pianist and composer Kurt Ellenberger writes about what he calls "the education fallacy": the premise that an increase in music education will lead to increased audiences. He's writing here about classical music, but draws a parallel with jazz: On the education spending issue, it's common to hear musicians say, "well, we're not spending enough, that's why we're not building classical music audiences — we need to spend more on education." I return to Jazz… Read more

Aussie artist back from the US plays Stonnington

The Thirsty Merc frontman is jazzing things up BY LINLEY WILKIE RAI Thistlethwayte has been “getting among it” for nearly two months in the US,…

Digging deeper into the Federal budget

The MCA has kindly given us permission to feature the contents of this bulletin, which discusses the real value of the Federal Government's…

Community radio loses in the Federal Budget

Community radio and Australian musicians face a major setback with the Government failing to renew funding for the Australian Music Radio Airplay…

Inspiring Women in Jazz

Inspiring women in jazz: 10 years of the Young Women’s Jazz Workshops While many people know SIMA for it’s great jazz programming, not many know that…

Super for musicians

Hi Bill. I hear you’ve had this cool idea about long service leave for musicians. And I think I’m right that you said you would get a House of Reps…

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