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Q&A with Jackson Harrison – 2006 NJA finalist
Welcome to Jazz Australia’s second series of Q&A interviews with finalists in the National Jazz Awards, which will be announced at the 2006 TAC Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. This year the National...
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Gerard Masters is from Sydney Miriam Zolin: When did you start playing piano and why? For example, was there a ‘moment’ when it came to you as a calling or vocation? Gerard Masters: I started playing...
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Q&A with Marc Hannaford – 2006 NJA Finalist
When did you start playing piano and why? For example, was there a ‘moment’ when it came to you as a calling or vocation? I started when I was nine so I could impress my friends with renditions of ‘The...
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Q&A with Hugh Barrett – 2006 NJA finalist
Welcome to Jazz Australia’s second series of Q&A interviews with finalists in the National Jazz Awards, which will be announced at the 2006 TAC Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. This year the National...
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Q&A with Darrin Archer – 2006 NJA finalist
Welcome to Jazz Australia’s second series of interviews with finalists in the National Jazz Awards, which will be announced at the 2006 TAC Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. This year the National Jazz...
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Rai Thistlethwayte – a bit mongrel-ish
Outside the jazz scene, many people know Rai Thistlethwayte as the front man for Thirsty Merc. It can be a surprise for people who know ’Someday, Someday’ or ‘Mousetrap Heart’ to hear him do the jazz...
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Life’s Undertow – Tim Stevens
Life’s undertow | improvisations Tim Stevens (Rufus Records) The latest from ‘…a gifted improviser and an especially thoughtful musician…’ (Andrew Ford, Inside Story) Life's undertow From the Rufus...
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Luke Howard and Janos Bruneel on the open road
‘These gentle, tightly focused dialogues emphasise beauty of sound at every turn…the treble piano notes are as limpid as dewdrops and the deeper ones are rich, sonorous and lingering. The bass is...
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Melbourne International Jazz Festival’s sax appeal
The reports were true. Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock are among us, walking in the streets of Melbourne, even checking out Bopstretch’s electifying-as-usual performance at the Uptown Jazz Cafe. Their...
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Rae Howell: “The experience of listening to instrumental music is your own...
Photo by Anne Skilbeck “Μusician, composer, pianist and vibraphonist extraordinaire” (as Luna Kafe puts it), Rae Howell is one of those daring artists that seem to always be absorbed by their art,...
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