FOUR FELLOWS BAG FELLOWSHIPS
The Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced its 2012 fellowship recipients. Two-year fellowships were awarded to four artists: trumpeter and composer Peter Knight, jazz guitarist James Muller, composer and pianist Erik Griswold and experimental musician Lucas Abela. Knight’s fellowship will enable him to create new solo work for trumpet and electronics and undertake three collaborative projects, including a new Way … Continue reading FOUR FELLOWS BAG FELLOWSHIPS
MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP FIGHTS BACK
There will be no Arts Victoria money for the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative next year, unless pressure can be applied to have this decision reversed. Now the co-operative is putting its case: The MJC has issued the following statement: The State’s Arts Victoria has again set itself on a collision course with the local jazz community over its latest rejection of two funding applications from the … Continue reading MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP FIGHTS BACK
ARTS VICTORIA DUMPS MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP
There will be no Arts Victoria money for the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative next year, unless pressure can be applied to have this decision — described as “so obviously wrong” by Adrian Jackson — reversed. As anger in the jazz community in Melbourne turns to planning for a public campaign to demonstrate that patrons and musicians are not happy, we are all being urged to take … Continue reading ARTS VICTORIA DUMPS MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP