REVIEW: Jazzgroove Festival, January 2016

” This year’s Festival program was put together smartly by Jazzgroove to get all the flavours of jazz rubbing up against each other and to pleasantly jolt by contrast.”

Julien Wilson: ‘Music is the best way I know of accessing the spirits’

“These guys didn’t live to play music. They lived because they played music. Music literally kept them alive.”

Ready for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival Summer Sessions?

The roster does real justice to the ‘international’ part of its title, as it features musicians from four continents: Europe, Africa, Asia and, of course, our own little corner of the world.

Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues – souvenir postcards

extempore and the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues have collaborated with National Jazz Award winners from every year of the festival since it began. The result is this eclectic set of souvenir postcards from some of our most creative musicians.

Overseas or at home, Freedman projects set high standards

The Freedman Jazz Fellowships provide Sydney audiences with a mini-festival each year that features music by artists hoping to bring their exciting projects to life. We talked to the 2012 finalists about their projects and what the Freedman means to them and to the broader jazz scene in Australia.

Q&A with Zac Hurren – 2009 NJA Finalist

When i was a tiny little fella I used to crawl into my mum’s wardrobe and explore. I was always intrigued by an old case […] Read More