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2012 Bell Awards winners

2012 Bell Awards announced

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Q&A with James Waples – NJA Finalist 2011

Q&A with James Waples – NJA Finalist 2011

Some of my first professional experiences came from my father along with the school music teachers, although I must admit that I really had no idea what jazz was and I think they just booked me cause I could keep in time.

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Q&A with Evan Mannell – 2011 NJA Finalist

“I’m more influenced now by what my mates do or don’t do than someone on a record from across the seas.”

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Q&A with Sam Bates – 2011 NJA Finalist

” I remember drumming along to Mental As Anything’s ‘Live It Up’ played on repeat. All Day.”

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Q&A with Ben Falle – 2011 NJA Finalist

Each year since 2005, in the month leading up to the jazz festival in Wangaratta, Miriam Zolin interviews the finalists in the National Jazz Awards. The awards are decided at Wangaratta in a series of heats culminating in a finals performance on the Sunday of the festival. Wangaratta Jazz festival this year runs from Friday 28 to [...]

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Q&A with Graham Hunt – 2011 NJA Finalist

Each year since 2005, in the month leading up to the jazz festival in Wangaratta, Miriam Zolin interviews the finalists in the National Jazz Awards. The awards are decided at Wangaratta in a series of heats culminating in a finals performance on the Sunday of the festival. Wangaratta Jazz festival this year runs from Friday 28 to [...]

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Q&A with Cameron Reid – 2011 NJA Finalist

Q&A with Cameron Reid – 2011 NJA Finalist

Each year since 2005, in the month leading up to the jazz festival in Wangaratta, Miriam Zolin interviews the finalists in the National Jazz Awards. The awards are decided at Wangaratta in a series of heats culminating in a finals performance on the Sunday of the festival. Wangaratta Jazz festival this year runs from Friday 28 to [...]

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Q&A with Craig Simon – 2011 NJA finalist

Each year since 2005, in the month leading up to the jazz festival in Wangaratta, Miriam Zolin interviews the finalists in the National Jazz Awards. The awards are decided at Wangaratta in a series of heats culminating in a finals performance on the Sunday of the festival. Wangaratta Jazz festival this year runs from Friday 28 to [...]

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Q&A with Dave Goodman – 2011 NJA finalist

Q&A with Dave Goodman – 2011 NJA finalist

Each year since 2005, in the month leading up to the jazz festival in Wangaratta, Miriam Zolin interviews the finalists in the National Jazz Awards. The awards are decided at Wangaratta in a series of heats culminating in a finals performance on the Sunday of the festival. Wangaratta Jazz festival this year runs from Friday 28 to [...]

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Q&A with Hugh Harvey – 2011 NJA Finalist

Q&A with Hugh Harvey – 2011 NJA Finalist

Each year since 2005, in the month leading up to the jazz festival in Wangaratta, Miriam Zolin interviews the finalists in the National Jazz Awards. The awards are decided at Wangaratta in a series of heats culminating in a finals performance on the Sunday of the festival. Wangaratta Jazz festival this year runs from Friday 28 to [...]

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Scott Tinkler Quartet: Red Door

Scott Tinkler Quartet at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne on April Fools Day, 2005

Rai Thistlethwayte – a bit mongrel-ish

‘I guess maybe I can’t decide what I like, I just like it all, and although that is hard to ‘market’ to the world, it’s true to me, so I’m a mongrel.’

Gian Slater receives Creative Fellowship

Musician Gian Slater receieved an early career fellowship in the first round of creative fellowships under the new Federal Government’s Creative Australia Artist Grants initiative.

Barney McAll’s creeping unease

Barney McAll’s Graft is a suite of music that looks at technology and the bizarre affect it is having on human connection. It is a wild musical sound painting reflecting the ever increasing ambiguity between virtual and real.

ANU School of Music – changes cause concern

Recent changes to the ANU School of Music in Canberra have created a dismayed buzz in the Australian jazz and [...]

Gian Slater sings Belinda Moody’s ‘Sleepy Head’

‘Slumber’ composed and arranged by Belinda Moody, performed by Moody on bass, Gian Slater on vocals, Colin Hopkins on piano, Phil Collings on drums, and string quartet.