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Take Five With Karen Lane
by AAJ Staff
Meet Karen Lane: Originally from Perth then Sydney and Singapore and has been resident in London for the last 14 years. She has released five albums to rave reviews and played London's most prestigious jazz clubs including Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho and Ronnie Scotts with musicians including Jamie Cullum, Geoff Gascogne, Enzo Zirilli, Renato ...
Rosie Henshaw: Rosie and the Bees
by Roger Farbey
Vocal jazz but with more than a dash of rock must be one of the hardest niche markets to break into. So it is with Rosie and the Bees, whose eponymously titled debut album makes a very brave stab at the scene. This Australian trio, Rosie--of which more later--Banel Martinez on guitar and Byron Mark on ...
Resurgence: Duende
by C. Michael Bailey
Australian pianist Mark Isaacs has hit a long stride with his band Resurgence, releasing the band's fourth recording Duende. His three previous recordings with Resurgence: Resurgence (ABC Jazz, 2007), Tell It Like It Is (ABC Jazz, 2010), and Aurora Aurora (Gracemusic, 2011) have progressively probed the edges of contemporary jazz, filling out the sound that one ...
Leigh Carriage: Get Out Of Town/Mandarin Skyline
by Ian Patterson
After just one studio album in the previous eight years--Until (Self Produced, 2004)--Australian singer/composer Leigh Carriage has released not one but two albums in less than a year, showcasing different sides of her musical personality--the interpreter of standards/torch songs, and the songwriter. Lismore, NSW-based Carriage is Head of Vocal Studies at Southern Cross University, and there's ...
International Music At Manly Jazz Festival
The Manly Jazz Festival is a major community and tourism event on the Australian annual jazz calendar and takes place in the heart of Manly along the Manly Corso and the picturesque Manly Beachfront this year on the 5th, 6th and 7th October. Up to 45,000 jazz enthusiasts from Sydney and NSW, interstate and overseas come ...
Dubbo Jazz Festival 2013
Dubbo is a thriving regional city and services a huge geographical area of one third of NSW. The city is ideally located is at the intersection of major routes for road, rail and air transport in the Central West of NSW, about 400 Km from Sydney. The city’s population exceeds 41,000, with a catchment population in ...
New CD "Doin’ The Charleston" By Greg Poppleton And The Bakelite Broadcasters
With the same maverick spirit that produced The Phantom Dancer (the sold-out first CD and the award-winning, national community radio show), Doin' The Charleston, is the long-awaited second album from Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters “Captures that decade's [1920] vocal style to perfection," Kevin Jones, 102.5FM Fine Music Sydney, formerly jazz critic for The Australian ...
Take Five With Paul Zaborac
by AAJ Staff
Meet Paul Zaborac:Paul Zaborac is a versatile saxophonist, composer, and educator. Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1987, he began studying the saxophone at the age of 11. After receiving a bachelor degree in music education from Simpson College (2010), he proceeded to obtain a master of music degree in saxophone performance at the ...
Mike Nock / Laurenz Pike: Kindred
by John Kelman
Despite the lack of major label support--or, perhaps, as a result of it--jazz appears to be in a strange period of ascendancy, where the number of people playing it seems diametric to the industry support it receives. New Zealand-born Mike Nock should know; since relocating to Sydney, Australia in the mid-1980s--after spending a quarter century in ...
