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Sandy Evans Awarded Medal (OAM) of the Order of Australia National News | JA admin | Tuesday, 15 June 2010 | Hits: 39 Sandy Evans was awarded an OAM at the Queens Birthday honours list for her service to Australian contemporary jazz music as a composer and musician. Sandy's outstanding achievements included; •Joined, Australian Art Orchestra, 1992.•Co-musical Director, Ten Part Invention, since 1986; Group invited to the Chicago Jazz Festival, 2004.•Formed, Clarion Fracture Zone (quintet), 1987.•Formed the band, Women and Children First, 1983.•Band Leader, Citizens of Earth.•Band Leader, Sandy Evans Trio.•Band Leader, Gest8 (octet).•Member of The catholics, austraLYSIS, Waratah and Mara!, and many jazz and cross-cultural compositions.•Composer, Testimony.•Established and Director, Jazz Improvisation Workshops for ... Read more |
The Bells ring for Australian Jazz Talent National News | JA admin | Friday, 4 June 2010 | Hits: 45 The winners announced for the most prestigious awards in Australian Jazz. The Australian Jazz Bell Awards, dubbed ‘The Bells’ in honor of the Australian jazz pioneer Graeme Bell AO MBE, have established themselves in just eight years as a high point on the Jazz calendar. The Jury panel, which includes Australian and international Jazz critics and key figures in the industry - John McBeath, Michael Tortoni, Adrian Jackson, John Shand, Laurence Donohue Greene and Martin Jackson. The Jury panel chose the seven winners from three shortlisted nominees in each category. The Be... Read more |
ALBARE - Review, May 18th at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Victoria | Martin Jackson | Sunday, 30 May 2010 | Hits: 65 Coming just a little after the end of the exhaustingly large-scale Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the opening night of guitarist Albare’s three week season at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club on May 18th. could have been expected to be a low-key affair to gently usher in his return to public performance after a break of almost 9 years. However, because the artist known as Albare is also such a great patron of the Australian jazz scene in his ‘daytime’ persona as Albert Dadon (such as his creation of the Australian Jazz ‘B... Read more |
THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ BELL AWARDS 2010 New South Wales | anonymous | Thursday, 7 January 2010 | Hits: 161 Started in 2003, The Australian Jazz Bell Awards recognise and encourage excellence in the performance, recording and presentation of jazz in Australia. In honour of one of the greats of Australian bjazz – Graeme Bell, MBE, AO – the Australian Jazz Awards are informally known as 'the Bell Awards'.Last year a monetary gift for the winner in each category was introduced, with prize money of up to $5,000.Nominations for the 2010 Australian Jazz Bell Awards opened on January 1st. and the final cut-off date for nominations is Wednesday 10 February.The ... Read more |
Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival announces dates for 2010 New South Wales | anonymous | Tuesday, 15 December 2009 | Hits: 49 The Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival has announced that it's dates for 2010 are Friday April 23-Sunday May 2. Enquiries should be directed to in... Read more |
Wangaratta in Review National News | Peter Jordan | Wednesday, 4 November 2009 | Hits: 67 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. John McBeath - The Australian Unlike previous Wangaratta festivals, the twentieth anniversary edition had no overseas big names, throwing a welcome increased emphasis on the abundant and extraordinary Australian talent. Artistic director Adrian Jackson explained that reduced seating in the newly completed Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre, combined with difficulties in post-festival scheduling of any possible big names in ... Read more |
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Sandy Evans was awarded an OAM at the Queens Birthday honours list for her service to Australian contemporary...
The winners announced for the most prestigious awards in Australian Jazz. The Australian Jazz Bell...
On 1st March 2010 history was made at Jazzworx! in Brisbane, when 30 new students officially began studying...
Katie Noonan has won the gong for best jazz album at the ARIA Artisan and Fine Arts Awards for Blackbird,...
A new performing arts centre was in place for the twentieth Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. Read reviews...
Brisbane saxophonist Zac Hurren has won the 2009 National Jazz Award at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz.Phil...
Each year, Jazz Australia talks to the ten finalists in Australia's most prestigious jazz competition,...
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Despite the emergence of many distinctive voices in Australian jazz music over the past ten to fifteen...
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Sydney-based vocalist Kristin Berardi will perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland next...
As the Sydney Improvised Music Association begins its 2006 program, president and artistic director Peter...
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On 1st March 2010 history was made at Jazzworx! in Brisbane, when 30 new students officially began studying...
Brisbane saxophonist Zac Hurren has won the 2009 National Jazz Award at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz.Phil...
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In the latest in our series on the people behind the country’s major jazz organisations, South Australian...
The weekend of 22 and 23 of October, the Coopers East End Jazz Festival takes place at Rundle Park in...
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New York trumpeter Charles Tolliver will headline the 20th Wangaratta Jazz Festival, performing with...
We are approaching the 20th anniversary of the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues. I have reviewed every...
The 2009 Melbourne International Jazz Festival program has been announced and features an interesting...
TWO veritable giants of jazz performed in Australia for the first time in 2008 without including Melbourne...
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With the imminence of the 2005 Perth International Arts Festival I thought I would take the opportunity...
It is a well documented fact that Perth is the world’s most isolated capital city.However, what this...
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