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AJRB March 2025: John Scurry's New Album "Aerogramme"
Hope you get to listen to this wonderful album, with beautiful tunes played and captured in the room. You can genuinely hear and feel the camaraderie and human-ness. Great! Scroll below for links to the tunes.
Tim Nikolsky
March 01, 2025
Introducing MIJF’s 2025 Take Note Jazz Leader - Solune
Take Note Jazz Leader - Solune
Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) is delighted to announce improvising multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and educator SOLUNE (Selene Messinis) to preside as the 2025 Take Note program leader.
PBS Performer Drive
Sign-up to PBS 106.7FM as a Performer Member during February and you’ll go into the draw to win a massive launch party pack!
Hot on the heels of Drive Live, PBS’ celebration of Melbourne’s incredible live music scene, comes our February Performer Drive. We’re asking bands, solo acts, DJ’s and performers to show their support for a vital voice of Melbourne’s music community by becoming a member, with the chance to win a launch party pack, which includes:
• 50 x custom T-shirts printed for your band courtesy of SoundMerch(link is external)
• 50 x tote bags with your design from While You Sleep(link is external) screen-printing
• CD duplication worth $1000 courtesy of the team at Implant Media(link is external)
• 100 x7" vinyl record pressing, with colour labels, disco sleeves and test pressing from Zenith Records(link is external)
• Production of your very own music video to the value of $2.5K by the gang at Trade Creative Media(link is external)
• 10 x Cases of Mountain Goat(link is external) for the wrap party
• Plus a PBS on-air sponsorship campaign
It’s the perfect prize pack to help launch your next single, album, music video or Friday night – whatever the reason, we’ve got you covered!
Membership is only $120 per year and gets you a shout out on your favourite show every week, access to member giveaways, discounts at awesome businesses around town and the warm inner glow that comes with being part of a community of music lovers.
At PBS, we welcome members that are as diverse as the great music we play, so whether you’re into glam rock, hardcore, exotica, free jazz or anything in between, sign up as a member with PBS this February!
Performers can sign up at pbsfm.org.au or call the station on 8415 1067.
Thanks to all those who got back to me promptly with their payment indications, and also thanks for your generosity in supporting the following very worthy Charities:
'Ekphrasis' is an album featuring six original compositions composed as part of my postgraduate research project on musical ekphrasis. Musical ekphrasis, in short, refers to a musical transformation of a work of visual art or poetry. This project was born out of a lifelong curiosity about visual art and poetry, and a desire to combine my interests and find new ways to create music with works that inspire me. The six compositions are based on visual artworks by Bori Benko, Eveline Kotai, and Judy Chicago; and poems by Emily Dickinson, Aja Monet, and Sonia Sanchez. The album features fellow Perth-based musicians Jamie Oehlers, Allira Wilson, Harry Mitchell, Djuna Lee, and Pete Evans.
AJRB End 2024: Happy Festive Season!
Have been listening to Holli’s new album, it’s great. Also features Tal Cohen and Jamie Oehlers on it. Vanessa Perica said of the album:
“Beyond all of her great technique, it’s her ability to connect with you emotionally that captures my attention. She wears her heart on her sleeve, and her vulnerability is most endearing. This album is deeply engaging from start to finish. Please enjoy ‘Weather and Weeds’ by this wonderful musician and storyteller.”
Holli Scott’s “Weather and Weeds” Album Cover
MWIJF Festival Poster 2024
New album “All Ears” just dropped. It’s fantastic. Fantastic Tunes. Killer band too. Really strong guitar directions here that are diverse, original and embracing of different styles. Super quality mix too for all you audiophiles out there! Check it out!
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With the unfortunate demise of MadMimi, I’ve had to find a new newsletter service. I guess it’s an opportunity to try out a few new things. Will endeavour to keep going as normal, usually one new feature send out a month. If that’s not your bag, feel free to unsubscribe. But, this little platform is an important vehicle for amplifying new releases from local musicians, and celebrating their creative achievements despite all the challenges. So if you can, check it out, support the local creators doing amazing things, and get amongst it!
AJRB Logo Woodblock Print HardPress
Proving that Early Jazz still sounds fresh, exciting and uplifting, Cam has released a brilliant album that has some super fun tunes on it as well as some quite awesome playing from 3 heavy hitters on the Liquorice Stick. Of course Au has a rich history in Early Jazz and it’s super encouraging to hear the flame still burns bright.
Cameron McIntyre playing Clarinet
Cheryl Durongpisitkul on the Red Carpet receiving Art Music Award
Work of the Year: Jazz was presented to Cheryl Durongpisitkul for A Pinky Promise, a provocative work reflecting on her experiences as woman of colour in the jazz community. This work was commissioned by the Monash Art Ensemble - MAE (Monash University).
I really hope that the AJRB can represent Cheryl’s fantastic work soon!
APRA AMCOS 2025 Professional Development Awards
Dingo Jazz Journal Front Cover
Dingo Spring 2024 is going to drop hopefully really soon in my letterbox! Had a really great time working on a musicological deep dive on a super cool local new release, from an AJRB legend! Can’t wait to see it in print.
How to cancel your AJRB subscription?
Of course I really hope you don’t, because the AJRB runs on the smell of an oily rag and relies on your support. But I totally get the cost of living crisis and having subscription fatigue. So if you need to opt out, totally understand! You’re welcome back anytime and we totally won’t be offended.
Here’s the instructions on how to do it (I can’t do this on your behalf)
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If you’re nostalgic for the old newsletter or you want to see what’s been achieved over the last few years; or you’re doing an quantitative analysis of jazz representation in the Au scene I’ve done a pdf print for you to scrutinise.
need to get in contact with the AJRB?
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