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AND THE WINNERS ARE …

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 …

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CD REVIEWS

GRAEME BELL & HIS DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND — 1947 & 1948 Sydney Prague Paris London

CD REVIEW WHAT began in the 1930s as Gay’s Swing Band at Deepdene Scout Hall took Graeme and Roger Bell and their Dixieland revivalists to Prague in 1947 (helped by the Eureka Youth League), then newspaper front pages and the Hot Club in Paris and to London’s Soho in 1948 to start the London Jazz Club, which initiated “jazz for dancing”. The band was greeted … Continue reading GRAEME BELL & HIS DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND — 1947 & 1948 Sydney Prague Paris London

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