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JAZZTAS

Tasmanian Jazz Archives

Material for JazzTas Archive, QVMAG, July 2005

Videotapes

Function at Batman Fawkner Hotel, Launceston, to record CD “Bob At the Batman”, 17 May 1995. Musicians Bob Barnard (trumpet/vocals), Bill Browne (drums), Bruce Gourlay (piano), Max Gourlay (clarinet/vocals), Ken Philpott (bass), Murray Brown (saxes), Monte Mumford (trombone). Video quality not good – very dark.

15th Suncoast Jazz Festival, St Helens 1999. Filmed by Steve Roper. Commentary by Chris Wisbey (ABC), poem by Phil Rush, Street Parade, features Alex Hutchinson, Jack Duffy, Ngaire James, Bruce Gourlay, Geoff Power, Eric Holroyd, Michelle Whelan, Clem Meehan.
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Records (Donated by the Launceston Jazz Club, from the John Wilson Collection)

LPs

“Jazzmania”, Pearce-Pickering Ragtime Five, Swaggie MONO S 1272 (“the Jazz makers” series). Recorded at Hobart ABC studios 5 July 1969, 7 March 1970, 25 May 1970 and 18 July 1970.

“Pearce Pickering Barrelhouse Jazz Band” (2 LP set), Swaggie Records 2LP-001. Recorded at Hobart ABC studios 24 May 1975, 4 October 1975 and 1 August 1976.

“sweet, soft, plenty rhythm”, Pearce Pickering Barrelhouse Jazz Band, Swaggie Records S.1404. Recorded at Hobart ABC studios March 1979 and August 1981. Released 1984.

“Red Hot & Blue”, Pearce-Pickering Barrelhouse Jazz Band, Candle Recordings Pty. Ltd. CFPS-122. Recorded at Spectangle Productions, September 1983.

“The Ken Herron Jazz Band featuring Graeme Bell & Bob Barnard” (2 LP set), EMI Records Australia EMA-334-1. Recorded live at the Melbourne Hotel, Brisbane, 1979, for the ABC-TV Series “On Jazz”.

45rpm

“Oh! Captain Cook/My Sweety’s Got A Choo-Choo Man”, Tom Pickering’s Goodtime Jazzmen, Van Dieman Records VDR-009. Date is thought to be 30th. April, 1970. Slipcover signed by Tom Pickering, Ian Pearce, Don Shepard and Michael Colrain.

“Tom Pickering’s Good Time Band with Billy Banks”, Swaggie S4509. Recorded at 7HO, Hobart, 15 August 1956 and 13 October 1956.

CDs

Tasmanian Jazz Composers Vol. 1. 1992 produced by Frank Pisconieri, Little Arthur Productions, Tasmania. LACD 01

Programme of 2004 Suncoast Jazz Festival. Publisher document on CD.
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Photographs

Three large photos of trombonist Ken Herron, donated by Graeme Bell, with accompanying letter.

Graeme Bell’s Allstars, including Ken Herron, taken at Tamarama Beach, NSW, in 1964. Photo used as Christmas Card by ScreenSound Australia in 2004.

Large photo taken at Suncoast Jazz festival, St Helens, June 1995. Tony Ashby (sax), Tom Baker (trumpet), Alex Hutchinson (clarinet), Paul Bonnefin (trombone).

Ephemera

Devonport Jazz Weekend 2004 programme

20th Suncoast Jazz Festival programme 2004

Recent Newsletters - Hobart Jazz Club, Jazz Action Society NW Tas, Suncoast Jazz Club

The Source Vol. 2, No. 2. 30 June 2005. Break O’Day Community News.
Includes 21st Suncoast Jazz festival write-up and photos

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous cuttings

Miscellaneous tickets

20th Suncoast Jazz Festival 2004 cuttings

21st Suncoast Jazz Festival 2005 poster and cutting

Devonport Jazz Weekend 2005 flyer, car-sticker and cutting

Bob Barnard & Moment’s Notice, Marion’s Vineyard, 30 March 1991. Programme and ticket.

Jazz in the Vineyards 1994. Poster, ticket and cutting.

Jazz Action Society of Tasmania poster for Ian Pearce Quartet (recent recipient of AM), 11 July 1995.

Jim Galloway with Ian Pearce Quartet, Hadley’s Hotel, 20 September 1995. Ticket and promo.

Paul Martin’s Riverside Stompers, Nonie’s Jazz Cellar, 28 October 1995. Invitation.

Graeme Bell’s Reunion Band in Concert, Sydney, 17/18 September 2004, for his 90th Birthday Celebration, Poster and CD flyer.

“Katook” poster for 3 venues in Tasmania, May 2005

Invitation to opening of Community History Museum, Inveresk, 1st July 2005

“42nd Street” programme, Devonport Choral society, May 2003
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Biographical bits

Max Garwood – extensive hand-written memoirs of Launceston pianist, published in Launceston Jazz Club Newsletter, 2004-2005.

Amy Cutler cutting 18 April 2005

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Tasmanian Jazz Archive News 1st July 2005
- from Veronica Lyons.

Today I had the pleasure of attending the official opening of the new Community History Museum at the Inveresk site of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. The facilities are very impressive and worth the long wait.
To access the material in the Tasmanian Jazz Archive, you firstly need to consult the Collection Guide, either at Inveresk or by phoning the staff on 6323 3777. I can also search my copy of the Guide for you. You then need to make an appointment so the staff can get the relevant material out of the store for you. Opening hours are 10am to 4pm, Monday to Thursday. Rhonda Hamilton is the Curator, and the staff are Ross and Danielle.
The annual forum of the Australian Jazz Archive National Council, planned for this month in Canberra, has been postponed due the withdrawal of funding for the delegates' travel costs, previously provided by ScreenSound. The meeting format may be altered to a cheaper option such as a tele-conference or e-mailing of reports. This is not a downgrading of ScreenSound's commitment to the Australian Jazz Archive, but general cost-cutting on their part.
I am still seeking material for the Archive. I'm sure there are Tasmanian musicians and bands who are not represented at all, and I need people all over the state to track down recordings, photos, interviews etc. , from the early Tasmanian jazz days to the present time. I prefer that material comes to me so I can document it fully, and then take it to the Museum in batches.

Veronica Lyons Tasmanian Jazz Archive Officer
3 Tasma Street, Launceston 7250 Ph.6331 9653 <d_vlyons@intas.net.au>

The annual meeting of the Australian Jazz Archive National Council was held in Canberra at the National Screensound Archive during February 2001, attended by P.C., where the previous years achievements were reviewed state by state.
It is pleasing to report that Tasmania received plaudits from both the A.J.A.N.C. and Screensound Australia for our activity and endeavors in gaining National recognition for both our well known, and also our unheralded jazz musicians.

Following Tasmania’s appointment of Anna Barns, it was also decided that nationally a young person would be groomed from each state to attend the national meeting on a rotation basis. SSA were very happy with this project and it was decided that Anna will be invited to Canberra in February 2002. SSA are to investigate funding for Anna's visit. SSA are currently developing a web site that will eventually present photographs and 30 second sound bites of Australian Jazz musicians.

JAZZTAS.
We are now building up to the opening of the Queen Victoria museum campus at Inveresk in November 2001 where the JazzTas Archive will be housed (our area will not be ready at the official opening). The collection now numbers approximately 450 pieces including newsletters. The recent inclusion of the late Ted Herron’s trumpet will be one of the centre pieces of the collection together with memorabilia of Tom Pickering and Ian Pearce and all other well known musicians.

It is envisaged that we will have a small centre piece illuminated display case featuring a jazz object/video and or sound bite that will be changed regularly, and there will also be a plaque known as THE HALL OF JAZZ, featuring those Tasmanian musicians who have received the Satchmo award. Bruce Hayley with the Suncoast Jazz Club are helping to fund this display piece so that the Tasmanian Jazz scene will be presented in a way that is very acceptable to us and the Q.V.M.

It is great that we have Anna Barns working in our Archive and that JazzTas has a core collection that will be built on – it is now up to the Jazz Clubs and members tp be aware of the Archive now that the ground work has been accomplished and to advise and collect material {current posters, newspaper clippings, advertisements, photographs etc}. In a short time these will be part of our history. Southern Tasmania is a little under represented and additional help in this area is needed.
Discussions are also taking place that, at the launch of the Q.V.M. new campus, we could do a similar concert as we did at the launch of JazzTas in October of last year. As we have a fully professional, public funded arena to present our wares, it is up to us to grab this opportunity and make it the most complete state Archives in Australia, something that is completely within our grasp.

Peter Coleman. (phone/fax 03 63433281)