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Nothing Remains Unchanged
by Ross McHenry
AMC's new Associate artist Ross McHenry is a composer, bassist and producer, and winner of the 2019 Art Music Award for Excellence in Jazz. His new album Nothing Remains Unchanged - also featuring North-American colleagues Eric Harland, Ben Wendel and the Australian pianist Matthew Sheens - is just out and available via Bandcamp - this is the essay accompanying the new release.
This Is Not a Violin, It Is a Doorway
by Sarah Curro
Violinist Sarah Curro and Melbourne artist ReVerse Butcher's new digital book 'This Is Not a Violin, It Is a Doorway' is a living document of an artistic process involving, among other things, the decorating of a semi-acoustic violin designed and built by Curro's husband, luthier Paul Davies.
Around the finalising of the book, Sarah Curro's father passed away at the age of 86. John Curro AM MBE was the Queensland-based founder and conductor of the Queensland Youth Orchestras, whose life's work lives on in those thousands of musicians and music lovers who found their own calling in the ranks of the QYO. The following passage 'Music clips' from This Is Not a Violin, It Is a Doorway doesn't mention Australian music, so it's worth adding here, as a reminder of John Curro's wide-ranging tastes, a list of composers whose work he championed...
As seen by a friend & colleague: Tony Gould at 80 years young
by Rob Burke
Tony Gould's 80th birthday has been celebrated this month with special gigs in Melbourne - we asked Tony's long-term friend and colleague Rob Burke to write down his thoughts about making music with the extraordinary pianist, composer and improviser. A new album Live Again! by the Burke Gould Quartet was released at the end of 2019 on the Jazzhead label and is available via Bandcamp.
Cranbrook Centenary Composition Project: the Sound of a School
by Luke Gilmour
Luke Gilmour writes about the Cranbrook Centenary commissioning project that first culminated in performances in 2018 but that continues to bear fruit - a new education resource about one of the 10 commissioned works, Katia Beaugeais's Latitude 33° South has just been made available by the school.
European Jazz Conference 2019: jazz nurturing the soul
by Aviva Endean
Aviva Endean attended the Europe Jazz Network's conference in Novara, Italy, in September, as the AMC's Artistic Associate, as part of the Australian Jazz in Europe market development project.
Ngarra-Burria 2019 - what’s been happening?
by Christopher Sainsbury
This year has been a steady year for the Ngarra-Burria - First Peoples Composers, with three new composers completing the year in the program: Nardi Simpson, Eric Avery and James Henry....
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