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Call for Nominations for the Australian Jazz Bell Awards 2013
The only national awards dedicated solely to Australian Jazz music is now in its 11thyear. They are open to receive nominations across 8 different categories.
Prize money is $...
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Submitted by Warren Fahey
Do YOU have lucky colours, clothing, emblems you wear before a performance or rituals you perform prior to going on stage?- Are there things you avoid because you consider them bad luck?- Are there sayings you use for good...
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How healthy is jazz? Is it, like some critics and musicians contend, an art form that has run its course? Or is it still a dynamic music that continues to evolve in new and interesting ways?
Sydney’s Jazz Now Festival aims to demonstrate the latter. ...
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Matt McMahon didn’t get nervous before his Freedman Jazz Fellowship concert in July. He didn’t have the energy.
A Friday night gig at Bennetts Lane in Melbourne was followed in quick succession by gigs with Vince Jones in Sydney and Darwin. “So b...
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Winner Announced for 2005 Freedman Fellowship for Jazz
The Music Council of Australia and Freedman Foundation are delighted to announce the winner of the 2005 MCA/Freedman Fellowship for Jazz.
The winner is Sydney pianist and composer, Matt McMahon. M...
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Concert Review:Jamie Oehlers and Sam Keevers
Music Auditorium, Edith Cowan UniversitySunday 19 June 2005Reviewed by Garry Lee
Tenor saxophonist Jamie Oehlers is arguably WA’s most successful jazz export. After winning the international saxophone compe...
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There has been a lot of talk about a certain young pianist who is playing with Kate Ceberano, gigging in New York and in various line ups in Melbourne, and who has received such accolades as:
“…boy genius Aaron Choulai” Rhythms Magazine
“…...
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Melbourne's thriving jazz scene attracts some of the country's top jazz musicians, many notably absent from this year's Umbria Jazz Melbourne Festival 05. So to make sure they weren't entirely left out, four independent Melbourne organisations presentin...
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Mr John Patitucci, bass maestro was here in Melbourne, speaking before our very eyes! For me this was the most exciting of the master classes on offer during UJM05.
Arriving a few minutes into the well attended class, I noted that the gender balance wa...
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Opening night of Umbria Jazz Melbourne! The Forum was filled with jazz enthusiasts, musicians, journalists, diplomatic staff, and politicians. The evening kicked off with a gourmet meal for VIPs (my invite never arrived, oddly).Before the performance, th...
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Listening to ABC Radio this week I was reminded what a great jazz town Melbourne is. Broadcast live from the studio in another city was a singer visiting from the States, accompanied by a guitarist.
The presenter described the artist as "a very, very g...
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Since coming to Western Australia from Scotland over 10 years ago MO Award Nominee James Flynn hasn’t stopped singing and entertaining audiences both here and all over the world.
But it all started much earlier than that. After growing up in Scotland...
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Dizzy's often attracts lively-shout-over-the music crowds but this Saturday night's audience was respectfully silent and deservedly so.
Chindamo and Ball haven’t worked together in this format before, yet with no rehearsal this spontaneous performanc...
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I remember distinctly the feeling of loss that came over me as I realised that K would be no more.
Grant Windsor and Graeme Blevins, the creative force behind the group, had (rightly) made the decision to move to the UK to explore opportunities to fur...
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Brisbane is gaining a reputation as Australia's Hot City for jazz and the laidback, stylish singing of talented Brisbane based vocalist Ingrid James adds cache' to that claim.At her November gig at the Stones, Ingrid was supported by Pat Marchisella on ba...
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A new private grants program, the JB Seed, has just been introduced by John Butler.
The program is intended to support genuine artistic expressions and the grant categories selected are designed to explore and encourage the social, cultural and artistic ...
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The 23rd Annual MJC Concert Program commences on January 9th 2005 with the premiere of the Craig Simon Collective, led by exciting young ex-Sydney drummer Craig Simon, the runner-up in the 2004 National Jazz Drum Award, who moved to Melbourne in late 2...
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The Department of Psychology of the University of Melbourne has launched a Biennial Event (together with an award) to celebrate the life and work of Dr Jeff Pressing.
Dr Jeffrey Lynn Pressing, an expatriate American, died on 28 April 2002. Dr Pressing wa...
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The winner of the 2004 National Jazz Drum Award, held during the 2004 Wangaratta International Jazz Festival, was Felix Bloxom (Sydney), with Craig Simon (from Melbourne, after moving from Sydney) runner-up and Dave Goodman (Sydney) in third place....
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Following the appointment of Umbria Jazz Festival's Carlo Pagnotta as Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival (after the resignation of Adrian Jackson), the event will be revamped as Umbrian Jazz in Melbourne in May 2005 (the seven...
and is supported by Jazz Queensland