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
 Thursdays
VIKTOR ZAPPNER TRIO at the “STAGE DOOR the CAFÉ”, 254 Mount Street,  Upper Burnie, featuring visiting artists - 7.30-10.30pm

        (Prop.) Russell W Jarvis,        stagedoor@keypoint.com.au

Our Jazz Action Society will reach 25 years of age this year in May/June. If you have any ideas
for a celebration, please contact our secretary Bob Murfet on 6428 7350.

JAZZ ON THURSDAYS
VIKTOR ZAPPNER SWINGTET at the “STAGE DOOR the CAFÉ”, 254 Mount Street, Upper Burnie,
featuring:

  5 June         Fred Bradshaw from Hobart on alto saxophone

  12 June        Hayden Dare from Hobart on trombone and flugelhorn

  19 June        Andy Farrell from Burnie on tenor saxophone and vocals
 

Start at 7.30pm, $7 cover charge (meals served from 6pm)

NEWSLETTER NOTES
N.W. Tasmania Inc. P.O. Box 473 BURNIE. 7320 ABN 61 912 206 013 The Office of Senator Stephen Parry
JUNE – JULY 2008
REGULAR JAZZ
Jazz on Thursdays
Stage Door the Café
7.30 pm-10.30pm
$7 cover charge
Viktor Zappner Swingtet featuring musicians and singers from all over
Tasmania (and occasionally from the Mainland). Line-up of musicians/singers
inside this newsletter. Also, see the gig guides in the Advocate.
 

OTHER JAZZ AROUND
June 27 – 29 Weekend Tidal Water Resort, St. Helens 3rd SUNCOAST JAZZ JAMBOREE More details in our previous newsletter. Bookings 6376-1999

Friday, 26 June Stage Door the Café, Burnie 7:30 pm, $10; $7 JAS members and students
BLUE GUM JAZZ BAND
(7-piece traditional jazz band)
Committee Meeting: AGM, 6:00 pm, Thursday, July 17 at the Stage Door the Café
Supported by:

July 24 – 27 Weekend Devonport

Thursday, 26 June Stage Door the Café, Burnie 7:30 pm, $10; $7 JAS members and students. Meals from 6 pm Bookings 64322600

Sunday, 27 July Stage Door the Café, Burnie 7:30 pm, $10; $7 JAS members and students.

DEVONPORT JAZZ 2008 (7th Annual Mid-Winter Jazz Festival)
See the preview inside and/or look at www.devonportjazz.com. All financial
members will soon receive a festival booklet with full program directly from the
Devonport City Council.
CONCERTS
Celebrating 25th Birthday of the Jazz Action Society NW
Tasmania with Paul Furniss from Sydney on saxophones and clarinet and
John Broadby from Hobart on tenor sax and clarinet. Backed by Viktor
Zappner – piano, Michael Anderson - bass, Bruce Innocent – drums. More
information inside
BEN JONES from Sydney on tenor sax and vocals with Viktor Zappner-
piano, Nick Haywood-bass, Allan Browne-drums
A post festival “mint” – Ben Jones info in Festival booklet
2008 – 2009 Membership Form Enclosed

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· The Swing Dancing Workshops
Call Marnie on 0437 842 061 or look under ‘workshops’ at www.swingpatrol.com for details.
 
Special praise was given to Viktor Zappner at the end of the Devonport Jazz Festival. At the RSL Club on Sunday afternoon the Mayor of Devonport presented Viktor with honorary citizenship of Devonport and a lovely sheath of flowers to go with it. Elsa Kat was nearby, a happy onlooker. She, also, deserves our bouquets for such a successful and well-run festival.
 
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
Find out more about BURNIE (click) 
Burnie and Devonport (N.W. Tas) has The Advocate as its daily newspaper (click) to see what is happening locally.

LESS AMPLIFICATION - CONSUMER FRIENDLY

Viktor says - In order to make jazz more 'consumer friendly' I've decided to dispose of a drummer and play in a trio formation only, with as little amplification as possible (unfortunately you need a microphone for singers), and the lid of the baby grand piano at the 'Stage Door the Cafe' closed. I want to help Russell Jarvis to make his cafe into a successful business as he is willing (in such a small community as Burnie is with its 19000 population) to take the risk and introduce a weekly jazz program. It's only recently that Launceston dared to start a real weekly jazz gig at the Centennial Hotel after years of pop & rock only in the city of 75000!! I want his clients to feel comfortable and being able to enjoy the food and talk to each other without being overwhelmed by an amplified jazz group.
During the last few weeks I've played a series of gigs in Europe and became impressed by how good some of the acoustic, unamplified jazz sounded. Why couldn't we try to have something similar and upmarket in Burnie?
Also, I'm working on bringing some new, young talent into my stable from Hobart and Launceston to join as the featured musicians/singers.
Thank you for promoting this series of concerts/gigs.    VIKTOR

I am interested to hear Viktor on this above topic. I completely agree with him, and have been saying the same for 3 or 4 years. So many nice venues are spoiled because they don’t understand that music for dining needs to be at a low volume because as Viktor makes the point – people need to be able to talk to one another during a meal.
As Viktor says, the vocalist should be the only one amplified (unless the band is in a hall for 500 people etc) - Geoff

VIKTOR ZAPPNER TRIO at the “STAGE DOOR the CAFÉ”, 254 Mount Street,  Upper Burnie
 
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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
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