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New Releases

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Valley Jazz Festival

Jazz Queensland is looking for artists to appear at the 2009 Valley Jazz Festival, presented from May 12 - 17 next year.

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Jazz:Now

US pianist Marilyn Crispell is the featured artist at this year's Jazz:Now series at the Sydney Opera House, 10-13 September.

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Bell Jazz Lecture

Drummer John Pochee will deliver the 2008 Bell Jazz Lecture on 13 September - "Things ain’t what they used to be".

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Jazz Scene

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Sound Travellers - Grants Available

Posted on 28th August, 2008

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Frank Interviews the Masters

Posted on 27th August, 2008

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Joe Lovano on Frank Presley's Nows the Time

Posted on 27th August, 2008

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Perth Jazz Club - Progress Report

Posted on 30th July, 2008

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Broadbeach - Blends of Jazz

Posted on 30th July, 2008

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Brisbane - Jazz on Sunday

Posted on 9th July, 2008

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MFO NATIONAL TOUR

Posted on 20th June, 2008

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Jazz in the Vines

Posted on 20th June, 2008

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Gig Guide

Use the calendar below to see listed gigs in the Jazz Australia directory.

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Reviews

Tina Harrod - Worksongs >

25th August, 2008
Review by John McBeath and John Shand

Sally Ford - Births, Deaths & Marriages >

19th August, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Logic? - Native Strut >

3rd August, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Andrew Robson Trio - Radiola >

26th July, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Wanderlust - When in Rome >

7th July, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Richard Maegraith Band - Free Running >

7th July, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Oehlers, Grabowsky and Beck - Lost And Found >

30th June, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Tim Stevens Trio - Mickets >

30th June, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Julien Wilson Trio - Sound Vault >

30th June, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Bunbury International Jazz Festival >

26th May, 2008
Review by Peter Kenyon

Joe Chindamo - Duende: The Romantic Project >

17th March, 2008
Review by John McBeath

The Vampires - South Coasting >

12th March, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Matt Keegan Trio - Tone Imagination >

27th February, 2008
Review by John McBeath

Features

Mace Francis: A Dream Come True

3rd September, 2008

Touring opportunities for artists in a range of minority genres, including jazz and improvised music, will be increased if an innovative new project proves successful.

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National Jazz Writing Competiton

28th August, 2008

The winners of the 2008 National Jazz Writing Competition have been announced at the Melbourne Writers Festival.

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Bruce Clarke - 1925-2008

25th August, 2008

Melbourne guitarist and teacher Bruce Clarke, who was this year honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to the arts, died on 24 July aged 83.

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Ron Falson - 1928-2008

20th August, 2008

Ron Falson, one of Australia's foremost jazz musicians, was a regular in the nightclubs that boomed in Sydney after World War II, particularly Joe Taylor's Celebrity Club, where he and Don Burrows formed the "frontline" of a celebrated house band.

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Andrew Robson: Freedom Now

19th August, 2008

In many ways Sydney saxophonist Andrew Robson is the epitome of the contemporary Australian jazz musician, an artist who is at once working to advance the jazz tradition while at the same time successfully exploring other musical terrain.

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