Usually early in a New Year we reflect on the previous one and that’s what I’ve done in the program this week. I’ve selected some tracks from CD releases that I’ve particularly enjoyed over the past year or two. Of course I can’t fit nearly as many as I would like to in one program so I may do the same again when I come back from my 2 months leave. Yes I’m taking some times off as I do each year, but the programme will continue in the safe and capable hands of my colleague Mick Paddon.

Mick is a long time presenter of his own program on Eastside Radio and is looking forward to taking  on a program that features exclusively Australian material. He has produced a series called ‘The Changing Face of Jazz’ and I am proud that Mick has chosen Jazz Made In Australia for the debut presentation of this project over the coming weeks.

I disclose more of this project further into the program which this week features creative musicians/composers such as Hulian Wilson, Peter Knight, Barney McAll, Mike Nock, Michelle Nicolle, a female artist who has established a successful jazz career over the past 20 years, and some others. The program opens with Julian Wilson’s composition Rainman from his recording ‘This Narrow Isthmus’.