by Julien | Nov 5, 2024 | BLOG
National Jazz Award 2024 Adjudicator’s Statement There were six finalists this year. Selecting them out of a strong field was already a hard task. For those lucky enough to hear all six play live at the revitalised Wangaratta Jazz Festival the level of talent and...
by Julien | Oct 4, 2020 | BLOG
The ABC’s slightly controversial and mostly meaningless Top100 poll is done. (Meaningless in that it tried to cover all styles of international jazz over a 100 year period. But I guess meaningful in that it represented a massive selection of “wartime” swing bands,...
by Julien | Jun 6, 2020 | BLOG
I feel compelled to put this out there. So here it is. I’m a white Australian jazz musician. My whole career is based on and indebted to black American music and the people who created (and continue to create) it under unbearable systematic oppression. When I first...
