Changing the Face of Jazz
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Changing the Face of Jazz With Alex Silver
13, September 2023
Trombone player, and band leader Alex Silver is featured in the Changing the Face of Jazz series . The series focuses on young women instrumentalists who have been making their names in jazz in recent years. Alex tells how, when faced with a choice between playing glockenspiel and trombone in a school band, she opted […]
Jess Dunn Making Jazz in Australia
13, September 2023
Bass player Jess Dunn is the featured musician in this Changing the Face of Jazz. Jess says of herself that she came to playing music fairly late, by which she means her late teens. She progressed from a hand-me-down electric bass to a stand-up acoustic one and then developed a taste for jazz. She graduated […]
Changing The Face of Jazz
24, August 2023
Over the past decade the face of jazz in Australia has been changing, slowly but surely. While we are used to seeing women singers fronting bands, there have been few women playing the instruments we associate with jazz-trumpets, saxophones, pianos, basses. There have been even fewer women leading jazz ensembles. That is now changing. This […]
Alto player Tessie Overmyer: starting at the top with Charlie Parker
24, July 2023
Tessie Overmyer is a saxophonist primarily playing the alto sax. She has been making a huge impact on the Sydney and Australian jazz scenes in the past couple years. In this profile she describes taking up the alto at school (though she might have been an oboe player if one had been available) . She […]
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