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

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 ...

Lawrence English: Capturing The Impossible Trio

by Lawrence Peryer
February 14, 2026

Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on artist, composer, and curator Lawrence English.Australian composer Lawrence English has spent over two decades treating sound as something that occupies your body, not just your ears. Putting The Tonearm's needle on Lawrence English means entering a sonic world where you're never quite sure what you're hearing or ...

Jamie Clarke

Jamie Clark has been performing locally and nationally since the mid 80’s. He’s established himself as a versatile guitarist on electric and acoustic and has recorded with Good Bait, Loops, Topology, Leah Cotterell, Katie Noonan, Kate Miller-Heidke and The Company. More recently Jamie has played on releases by Charlotte McLean, Elly Hoyt and under his own name with his new album Over The Arch.

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

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 ...

Méva's Journal

Active since: 2023

Méva’s Journal is a fresh hard bop outfit in the Brisbane Jazz scene, modeled off of the late 50's/60's ‘hard bop’ ensembles. 

The band is led by Evan J. Evans, a Brisbane drummer currently studying a Bachelor in Jazz performance at the Jazz Music Institute, who has written all the music for the band. 

The music is based heavily in the early era of hard bop, taking heavy influence from more angular bebop composers like Thelonious Monk. The band features Tyger Middleton on Tenor Saxophone, Chris James on Alto Saxophone, Jordan Stitt on Piano and Alex Askew on Double Bass.

Dan Papirany's New Album 'I Trio' Is A Unique Individual Project

July 4, 2022

Multi-instrumentalist Dan Papirany has released I Trio, an album of mostly original compositions with the exception of “Groove Evolution” by Brett Loretz who also plays trumpet on the track. I Trio has a mixture of compositional influences. Two compositions were inspired by Steve Gadd drumbeats. In the composition “Fifty Ways To Leave Your Blubber” Papirany utilises ...

Dan Ford

Dan Ford is a saxophonist and composer based in Brisbane, Australia. He is passionate about creating and performing Australian jazz compositions in a distinctive modern style. Originally from Canberra, Dan followed his passion for jazz and improvised music by studying at the Australian National University’s School of Music (Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours) and later a Master's degree in jazz performance at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, graduating with the Award for Academic Excellence.

Dan has since performed at a wide range of events in Europe and Australia, including the Queensland Music Festival; Meriumbula Jazz Festival; Townsville Jazz Festival; Canberra International Music Festival; and many others

Cyclone Trio

Cyclone Trio is a head caving heavy jazz power unit of drums and saxophones, formed by Tony Irving (non-linear/free improvising drummer who founded the bands Ascension and Descension in the 90s) with drummer Tim Green and saxophonist Massimo Magee in Brisbane, Australia in 2013. The trio’s music focuses on intensity, dexterity, power and expression..

Sean Foran

Born: December 15, 1979

Award winning pianist and composer Sean Foran, is a musician with a clear sense of individual aesthetic, his music is melodic, engaging, and manages to draw stylistic influences together in a vibrant manner. He has received the prestigious Brisbane City Council's Lord Mayors Emerging Artist Fellowship, APRA Professional Development Award (Jazz), the QLD Music Award for Jazz (7 times) and the APRA/AMC State Award for Excellence in Jazz. A member of the acclaimed improvising trios TRICHOTOMY & Berardi/Foran/Karlen he has collaborated with the QLD Symphony Orchestra, Expressions Dance company, international jazz artists Julian Arguelles, Froy Aagre & Pascal Schumacher plus a range of classical groups, Topology, Southern Cross Soloists, Lunaire & Collusion

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