Draft national jazz plan – for comment

Hi would love to hear comments and feedback on this plan.  If you can’t open this please email me – jkee-at-nationaljazzalliance.com.au, I am having problems with the technology.

Cheers  Joanne

Dreaming a future

Dreaming a future

Where are all these fantastic women going to play and how are they going to support their families while they do it? In many ways, this is a hopeful time for jazz in Australia. We have an explosion of great musicians, passionate jazz organisations in most capital cities, jazz festivals, new books and journals, excellent tertiary jazz courses, record labels, community and ABC radio programs, a national website, touring initiatives like Sound Travellers, internationally recognised artists, even a National Jazz Alliance researching and writing a National Jazz Plan.

Extract from

Sandy Evans: 10th Annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
Celebrating humanity through the creative process
by Australian Music Centre  // 19.12.08

Wangs jazz rhythms in good health

“From an artistic point of view, however, the Wangaratta Jazz
Festival is in robust health. The 2008 program assembled by
artistic director Adrian Jackson reflected the startling breadth
and depth of this country’s talent. If there is an Australian voice
in jazz, it is a very expansive one — encompassing the salty
alto saxophone sound of Bernie McGann (whose playing evokes a dry,
spirit-filled landscape); the ebullient classic jazz of Allan
Browne and Margie Lou Dyer’s Allfrey Street Band (whose festival
set incorporated musical “Australiana” such as Magpie Stomp
and Fat Wallaby Rag); and the boldly uncompromising
explorations of the Antipodean Collective.”

Extract from the Age, Jessica Nicholas – 5th November 2008

Review and response by Mark Isaacs to The Permanent Underground

Article listed under background article please click on link under pages, Background Articles in the second column. (Sorry this is a bit clumsy, but I am still working out how to make everything work on the links)
Courtesy of Mark Isaacs
2008

Response and review of the book The Permanent Underground offers another perspective on the State of jazz in this country.

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