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New Multi-generational Jazz Quartet The Scornful Four Announce Debut Album And Launch Show

Source: John Russell
July 13, 2026

The Scornful Four has recorded a new album of original compositions and improvisations, with a limited edition run of vinyl albums hitting the shelves of local record stores in July. Following on from their 2023 live album which launched the project/imprint that has become the landmark Jazz in Meanjin series, the band has taken the fire and spontaneity of live performance into the studio. Hopeful Music for Hopeless People is a two-sided reference: providing hope to those who feel like ...

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Newly Formed Meanjin Hard Bop Ensemble Méva's Journal Announces Joining 4000 Records And The Release Of Their Debut Album

Source: John Russell
September 1, 2024

Eclectic independent label 4000 Records are thrilled to announce their newest cohorts: Meanjin five-piece hard bop outfit Méva’s Journal. As the brain-child of drummer, composer and bandleader Evan J. Evans, Mèva's Journal has been a long time in the making. Evans had been working with and starting many projects throughout all forms of jazz and jazz-adjacent music, until he finally decided it was time to build what to him was the perfect band to explore the music of his mind ...

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