When did you start playing jazz and why? For example, was there a ‘moment’ when it came to you as a calling or vocation? I remember when I was 13 rehearsing in the school jazz band and the teacher asked me to improvise. I told him I didn’t know how and his answer to that [...]
Scott Tinkler Quartet at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne on April Fools Day, 2005
‘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.’
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 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.
Recent changes to the ANU School of Music in Canberra have created a dismayed buzz in the Australian jazz and [...]
‘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.
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