Standing outside Joe Chindamo’s front door, in a leafy Melbourne suburb, I am a little nervous. If he could be so upset about what a reviewer said or didn’t say, are me and my mini-disk going to be in for a difficult half hour?
The Freedman Fellowship is a prestigious award—entrants are nominated from within the Australian Jazz scene and invited to participate. Julien Wilson, performing with his Julien Wilson Trio, was awarded the 2006 fellowship recently. With prize money of $20,000 ($15,000 in cash, $5,000 for promotion) and a range of support from the MCA, the Fellowship can …
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This is an article from 2003. To see what Mike is up to right now, go to www.mikenock.com He may not have discovered the cure for the common cold, but Mike Nock believes he knows how to soothe our modern existential pain. Jazz, of the creative variety – jazz that, in his words, “comes from …
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Sam Keevers is thought of by his musician mates as the original ‘Mr Nice Guy’. And aside from being a thoroughly good bloke, he also plays piano like an angel. I caught up with him at Marios café – a Melbourne institution in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy with waiters in long aprons and the best coffee …
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Have you noticed ? People who find jazz and are caught up in its magic often find themselves wanting to give something back. Tim Dunn, President of Rufus Records – the small Sydney based label dubbed ‘The Adventurous Label’ by the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD – is one such person.
