The 2019 Australian Jazz Bell Awards winners

The 17th annual Australian Jazz Bell Awards acknowledged and applauded excellence of creativity, recording, performance and presentation of jazz in Australia.

Zoe Hauptmann: ‘My focus and passion has always been with Australian made Jazz’

“There is undeniably an underrepresentation of women across all aspects of the music industry. You can’t be what you can’t see.”

Adrian Jackson: “We continue to take risks at Wangaratta”

“I feel lucky to have wandered into the position of doing a job that I enjoy and find rewarding, and to do it for so many years. The highlight has probably been having the chance to work with so many musicians who I hold in such high regard ; to propose or develop projects with them ; and then to see it all come together onstage, to be met with such generous approval by the audience.”

Adrian Jackson – 25 years of Wangaratta

This story was commissioned for – and appeared in – the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues 25th anniversary program. Photo of Enrico Rava provided […] Read More