Katie Noonan has won the gong for best jazz album at the ARIA Artisan and Fine Arts Awards for Blackbird, The Music Of Lennon and McCartney
A new performing arts centre was in place for the twentieth Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. Read reviews and blog posts from the anniversary event to find out what went on inside the venue.
Brisbane saxophonist Zac Hurren has won the 2009 National Jazz Award at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz.
Each year, Jazz Australia talks to the ten finalists in Australia's most prestigious jazz competition, the National Jazz Awards. The award in 2009 is for saxophone.
In Australia he was a rising jazz star, but that didn't count for much in the US, where no one knew his name. So it took a certain amount of courage for Barney McAll to wander into New York's Sweet Basil jazz club and offer his services to the owner, Horst Liepolt. It was the mid-1990s, and Liepolt was a well-known producer who had once played a significant role in promoting jazz in Australia.
Len Barnard - Order of Australia
By Peter Jordan
12th June, 2006
Drummer Len Barnard, who died late last year, has been awarded an Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday honours.
He received the honour - Member (AM) in the General Division - for service to jazz music, to improving the professionalism of Australian jazz music, and to the encouragement of young musicians.
Read John Shand's tribute to Len, originally published on Jazz Australia in November.
