AWARDS NIGHT On Thursday next week, May 2, at the Regent Theatre Ballroom, the glitterati of the national jazz scene will gather for the 2013 Australian Jazz Bell Awards. Sadly, Graeme Bell, MBE, AO, after whom these awards are named, died last year, so it will be the first ceremony without him. One of the most respected Australian jazz musicians, Bell was unable to attend the 2012 awards … Continue reading AND THE WINNERS ARE …
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
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
