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Step up, Ms Brous! Melbourne singer Sophie Brous answers our relentless questions with perfect grace and reveals an interesting taste in lyrics.
Watch this space for more National Jazz Award Finalist Q&As as the TAC Wangaratta Festival of Jazz approach...
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Megan Washington from Brisbane breezes through our probing questions.
Thanks to all the finalists who responded -- we'll be posting a new Q&A every few days until the TAC Wangaratta Festival of Jazz starts at the end of October!
Jazz Australia: When d...
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Today, Jo Fabro steps up to the mic and reveals all in this first in our series of Q&As as we run up to the TAC Wangaratta Festival of Jazz.
Jazz Australia: When did you start singing and why? For example, was there a 'moment' when singing came to you as...
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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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Sydney-based Jasmine Crittenden catches up withJoe Chindamo to talk about Umbria Jazz Melbourne '05 and other projects, including his latest release, Love, Blues and Other Fiction, featuring Australian jazz icon, Graeme Lyall.
Jasmine: Let’s ...
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Another Australian Jazz icon to appear at theUmbria Jazz Melbourne Festival '05 is Bell Award winner, Allan Browne. Jasmine Crittenden talks to this inspirational musician about his music, his passion and his inspiration.
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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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Rob Burke, head of jazz at Monash University, is one of Melbourne’s leading saxophonists. He’s performed and composed on over one hundred CDs; toured extensively with Kate Ceberano and The Black Sorrows; and studied with Dave Liebman, George Garzone...
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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...
