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JAZZ ACTION SOCIETY NORTH WEST Tas
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STAGE DOOR THE (BYO)
CAFE GIGS
254 Mount St, Upper Burnie, ph 6432
2600 Bookings preferred
Music's great and I can recommend the meals - Geoff
JAZZ
ON FRIDAYS
VIKTOR ZAPPNER SWINGTET at the
“STAGE DOOR the CAFÉ”, 254 Mount Street, Upper Burnie,
Start at 7.30 pm, $10 cover charge
($5 JAS members) Meals served from 6 pm
featuring:
13 November - Juliane Di Sisto from Launceston on
vocals
20 November - Yoly Torres from Burnie on vocals
27 November - From Hobart, Fred Bradshaw on alto saxophone
4 December - Denise Sam from Launceston on vocals
11 December - From Hobart, Rob Mason on tenor saxophone
and Jim Verall on trumpet
18 December - Christmas Jam
See the gig guides in the Advocate.
Start at 7.30pm - 10.30pm, $10
cover charge ($5 JAS members)
(meals served from 6pm)
(Prop.) Russell W Jarvis, STAGE
DOOR THE CAFE stagedoor@keypoint.com.au
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OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2009
Committee Meeting: Friday 13 November, 6.30 pm at the
Stage Door the Café
The Office of Senator Stephen Parry Supported by: CONCER
CONCERTS TS Newsletter prepared by
Chris Duhig, Hobart
From Melbourne on trumpet, flugelhorn and vocals GIANNI
MARINUCCI
to play and sing jazz standards and The Great American
Songbook
(plus mini-tributes to CHET BAKER and MILES DAVIS.)
Sunday 22 November: Burnie, Stage Door the Café
6.30 pm $15 (JAS members $10)
Bookings: 6432 5600 - Meals from 6.00 pm
with Viktor Zappner - piano, Michael Anderson - bass,
Bruce Innocent - drums,
REGULAR J JAZZ AZZ
Jazz on Fridays at Stage Door the Café 7.30 -
10.30 pm
$10 cover charge ($5 JAS members) Bookings 6432 2600
Meals from 6.00 pm
VIKTOR ZAPPNER SWINGTET featuring musicians and singers
from all over Tasmania
(and occasionally from the Mainland). Line-up of musicians
and singers inside this newsletter.
Also, see the gig guides in the Advocate.
IN PREP PREPARA ARA ARATION TION ...
Friday 18 December CHRISTMAS
JAM at Stage Door the Café
Friday 22 January 2010 CORNETCOPIA:
Bob Barnard and Jim Callum at the Bayside in Burnie
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JAZZ ACTION SOCIETY NORTH WEST
Tas
NORTH WEST J.A.S. (Burnie)
PRESIDENT
Viktor Zappner 20 Richardson Street Burnie 7320 Pres & Newsletters
- Ph 6431 7216(H) vezappner@hotmail.com
VICE PRESIDENT Stewart McNeair 10 Laurel Place
Ulverstone 7315 6425 6516
TREASURER
Murray Lavelle 6428 7149 Burnie 7320
SECRETARY
Bob Murfet 13 Quinlan Crescent Shearwater 7307 6428 7350
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Les Naunton 30 Seaview Ave. Burnie 7320
Bill Wright 30 Bathurst Street Burnie 7320
Helen Murfet 13 Quinlan Crescent Shearwater 7307
Yoly Torres 32 Sassafras Crescent
Jazz Education, Rohan Maxwell, 6428 2646, 0419 123 436 |
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THE DIARY PAGE IS ALWAYS
THE MOST UP-TO-DATE PLACE ON TASJAZZ WEBSITE
NOTE: THIS WILL BE YOUR LAST NEWSLETTER UNLESS YOU HAVE REJOINED
2008 – 2009 Membership Form enclosed or individually posted Supported
By: The Office of Senator Stephen Parry
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS: YEAR 2007-2008
- ACCOMPLISHMENTS
9 concerts:
July 30, 2007 ‘Dan Barnett’ at the Stage Door the Café in Burnie
August 16, 2007 ‘The Roaring Naughties’ at the Stage Door
September 20, 2007 ‘Leonie Smith & George Golla’ at the Stage Door
October 25, 2007 ‘Bruny Island New Orleans Jazz Band’’ at the Stage
Door
October 30, 2007 ‘Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band’ at the Stage Door
December 13, 2007 ‘Kelly Ottaway’ at the Stage Door
February 21, 2008 ‘Greg Josephson’ at the Stage Door
April 26, 2008 ‘Blue Gum Jazz Band’ at the Centenary Court in Devonport
June 26, 2008 ‘Celebrating 25th Birthday of the JAS NW with Paul Furniss
& John Broadby at Stage Door
Regular Jazz:
There were 34 ‘Jazz on Thursday’ sessions at ‘Stage Door the Café’
in Burnie. Thanks to the support given by
the place’s proprietor, Russell Jarvis, many Tasmanian musicians and
singers were given chance to perform
for jazz lovers in our region.
Other jazz activities (promotion and/or participation):
July 10, 2007 ‘Blues Point Jazz Singers’ at the Stage Door presented
by Tasmanian Regional Arts in
Association with Musica Viva and with funding assistance by Playing
Australia.
July 26-29, 2007 6th Devonport Jazz Weekend presented by Devonport
City Council.
February 17, 2008 ‘Classical Meets Jazz at the Arboretum’ presented
by Devonport City Council.
Newsletters: Six editions were published.
Committee Meetings: Our committee met seven times.
DIFFICULTIES & PROBLEMS:
We might sometimes benefit from taxpayers’ money although it happens
only indirectly by some of the visiting musicians touring on a base of
a grant (usually from Australia Council). I think the time is coming
that our organisation should again be receiving some kind of annual
grant (as we did in the eighties) to help us maintain both the quality
and quantity of jazz being presented. However, who will do the work of
applying for it?? Also, the absence in our region of young musicians capable
of playing jazz continues to be a problem.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
• Special individual contributions: Bob & Helen Murfet, Yoly Torres,
Betty Crisp, Michael Anderson,
Stewart McNeair, Murray Lavelle.
• Russell Jarvis, without whom there would be no live jazz in Burnie.
• Devonport City Council (Elsa Kat, Debbie Kershaw, Maree Brodzinski,
Tim Butler, Mick Stone,
Teresa Beck-Swindale, Diane Williams and Sylvia Berger in particular).
• Burnie City Council (Jenny Cox in particular).
• Tasmanian Regional Arts for supporting jazz in our region.
• Publicity: The Advocate (Chief of Staff Julian O’Brien, Catherine
Gale, Megan Hogarth, Sarah Leary,
Sarah Webb, Libby Bingham, Kate Jowett, Sarah Nicol) and ABC Classic
FM (Malcolm Stanley and
Gerry Koster).
• Offices of Brett Whiteley and Stephen Parry for printing our newsletter.
• Following businesses for allowing us to display posters for our concerts
and gigs on their premises:
Roberts Shearwater Real Estate, Shearwater Newsagency, Peter Jermy’s
Ulverstone Bookshop, West
Park Grove IGA Supermarket Burnie and Brickhill’s Newsagency Burnie.
• Jack Hendricks for auditing our books.
• All musicians/singers who participated in our activities.
(Viktor Zappner, 17 July, 2008)
NOTES & COMMENTS:
• Back in my youth I’ve acquired a very strong affinity not only with
blues and boogie-woogie but also with Negro spirituals. Says Harold Courlander
(“Negro Folk Music U.S.A.”, Columbia
University Press 1991): “That Negro folk music in the United States
is pre-eminently ‘American’ is all too evident. It could have come into
being only in the United States, where elements of
specific cultures were brought together under conditions that were
not exactly duplicated anywhere else.” I didn’t expect that my youthful
affinity with spirituals will be duplicated in
Tasmania when I joined Denise Sam to accompany her singing of “Ev’ry
Time I Feel the Spirit” at the ‘Gospel Song’, the excellent opening concert
at this year’s Devonport Jazz Weekend. For
this spiritual the audience joined in singing, but before that Denise
sang “Wade in the Water” – unaccompanied solo. As Maree Brodzinski says
in her review, Denise “left the auditorium
spellbound”. What a beautiful and even ‘spiritual’ way to start a jazz
festival!
• “Black Roots, White Flowers” is the title of Andrew Bisset’s book
about the history of jazz in Australia (ABC Enterprises, 1987). If the
‘Gospel Song’ concert pointed to the ‘Black Roots’ of
jazz, the ‘Showcasing the Con’ concert on Sunday represented jazz’s
‘White Flowers’. And very nice White Flowers at that. I’m so glad I didn’t
miss that brilliant display of modern,
contemporary and original Australian jazz played by both students and
teachers from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music! First the fusion-
and funk-oriented “Matthew Ives Quintet”
and then a nonet “Modern Operative”, led from the piano by Kelly Ottaway.
Apart from a couple of modern standards all the rest were original compositions
an arrangement. Here were two
working bands with not only disciplined ensemble players but also with
very good solo improvisers, all with clear awareness of jazz’s ‘Black Roots’.
As a citizen of Tasmania I’m very
proud about what our Con has now achieved in the field of jazz.
• Congratulation to Don Burrows who is celebrating his 80th birthday
on 8th August and to Graeme Bell who will be 94 on 7th September. On September
14th Graeme will be launching at the
Bentleigh Club in Melbourne “A Collection of the Compositions and Arrangements
of Graeme Bell, AO MBE, 1947-2007” – 45 tracks on a double CD. If you want
to be there, phone Diane
Allen on 9686 2844.
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(Address for Henk below. He is an agent for many of NW's visiting artists
Henk van Leeuwen, Australia Northern Europe Liaisons, unit 3,
229 Brighton Road, Elwood Vic 3184 Australia
ph: + 61 3 9525 7022, fx: + 61 3 9525 7033, email: ozeurjaz@ozemail.com.au
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz)
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