Tag Archives: Jackson Harrison
Features, Festivals 15 January 2012

Did you say ‘Old Man Farting’?

Old Man Singing - Lucian McGuinesson trombone and other bits and pieces

Celebrating a long-standing artistic friendship with Australian poet Thomas Shapcott, the Kinetic Jazz Festival has programmed three of Shapcott’s poems with dramatisation and music. The festival runs from 25-29 January

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Award finalists, Festivals 27 September 2006

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 Jazz Awards feature piano, for the first time since 1999. At the finals, to be held in Wangaratta in the first weekend of [...]

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Friday Video 18 May 2012

Scott Tinkler Quartet: Red Door

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

Interviews 17 May 2012

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.’

Interviews 16 May 2012

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.

Festivals 13 May 2012

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.

News 12 May 2012

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 [...]

Friday Video 11 May 2012

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.