Melbourne Jazz Festival
Melbourne International Jazz Festival | |
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Genre | Jazz |
Dates | 15–24 October 2021 |
Location(s) | Melbourne |
Years active | 1998–2019, 2021– |
Website | www |
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz music festival first held in Melbourne, Australia in 1998. The Festival takes place in concert halls, arts venues, jazz clubs and throughout the streets of Melbourne.
The 2021 Festival is scheduled to be held from 15–24 October, the 2020 Festival's physical events having been cancelled.
History
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival was first held in 1998. Adrian Jackson was the artistic director from 1998 until 2004; this run was interrupted in 2002, when the withdrawal of funding by Arts Victoria and the City of Melbourne in November 2001 meant that the program planned for January 2002 had to be canceled.
However much of the planned festival still went ahead, the City of Melbourne contacted Bennetts Lane Jazz Club founder Michael Tortoni to ask him if he was interested in taking control of the Festival. Tortoni agreed and effectively rescued the festival using his club's staff and infrastructure. Tortoni was appointed chairman in late 2001 and promptly restructured the board.[1] Megan Evans and Jeremy Jankie, managers of Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, managed to present much of the 2002 festival and Evans went on to manage the festival the next year. Tortoni remained on the board serving in various roles.
Albert Dadon assumed the position of Chairman in 2004. He arranged for the long-running director of the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, Carlo Pagnotta, to be brought in as guest Artistic Director in 2005. The Festival went into recess in 2006, due to venue and scheduling issues arising from the Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne that year.
Dadon then took over as Artistic Director in 2007, and again for the 2008 festival. Dadon is founding chairman of the Australian Jazz Bell Awards.[2]
Michael Tortoni has been the artistic director since 2009.
There was no festival in 2020, the physical event being cancelled due to the
The 2021 Festival is scheduled for 15–24 October 2021.[5]
Artist lineups
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2019
Herbie Hancock, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Troy Miller, Laura Mvula & Jose James, Billy Childs, Ms Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton, Ambrose Akinmusire with Origami Harvest, Ghost Note, the Vijay Iyer Trio, Petra Haden with Songs From My Father, Lonnie Holley, Vince Jones, Linda May Han Oh with Aventurine, Bill Frisell Trio, Rafiq Bhatia, Miles Okazaki with Work, Alma Zygier, Justine Clarke, Ross James Irwin with 60 Years of Kind of Blue: Reflections on a Miles Davis Masterpiece, Tamil Rogeon with MOMUS, Riffz2000, The Monash Art Ensemble, Josh Kelly with Displacement, Michael Pigneguy,
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2018
Branford Marsalis, Maceo Parker, Sun Ra Arkestra, Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science, Madeleine Peyroux, Christian McBride, Gretchen Parlato, Chris Davis & Drumhedz, Yemen Blues, Knower, Nubya Garcia, Barney McAll, The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, The Others, Daniel Susnjar Afro-Peruvian Jazz Group, Steve Sedergreen's Points in Time, Novela, Francesco Cafiso, Harry James Angus, Tony Malaby with Kris Davis and Simon Barker, Breton Foster, The Gravity Project, The Rookies, Melbourne Gospel Choir, Kim Myhr & Peter Knight, the Australian Art Orchestra, Chok Kerong Trio, Roger Clarke Quartet, That's What I Like About You featuring Peter Hearne, Small Fish Big Pond, Dizzy's Big Band, Ben Charnley Quartet, James Mustafa Quartet, The Georgia Brooks Swingtet, Hot Club Swing, Prickly Pear, Margie Lou Dyer Quintet, Natasha Weatherill Quartet, The Emma Gilmartin Quartet, Jackie Bornstein Quartet, Julie O'Hara La Grande Soiree, The Andrea Keller Trio, Connie Lansberg featuring The Mark Fitzgibbon Trio, The Fem Belling Quartet, Bob Sedergreen and Friends, The Sam Keevers Trio featuring Michelle Nicole, The Paul Williamson Quartet, The Jamie Oehlers Quartet, New Flower Garden, Kalala & the Round Midnights, Duo Novo, DJ Chelsea Wilson, DJ Ennio Styles, Cool Out Sun, Thando, Stepping Into Tomorrow, GC O'Connor, Louise Goh's Tala Raga, Holly Moore Quartet.
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2017
A Celebration of Ella and Louis (Patti Austin and James Morrison), Bill Frisell: When You Wish Upon A Star, Carla Bley Trio, Dianne Reeves, Donny McCaslin Group, Kenny Barron Trio, The Necks, Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles, Swing City, Jobim's Masterpieces From Ipanema To The World, Brenton Foster 6tet, The Steve McQueens, Luke Howard Trio, Kira Kira, Tigran Hamasyan: An Ancient Observer, Out of Earshot, Appearing Nightly, Things that have been said (Hue Blanes), Bill Frisell Trio, Now. Here. This., BFK + Pascal Schumacher, Ari Hoenig Trio, Jim Black Quartet, Tal Cohen Quintet featuring Greg Osby, Yotam Silberstein Quartet, NAK Trio, MaxMantis, Moons of Jupiter (Paul Grabowsky), Still Night: Music in Poetry, Speedball, Late Night Jams with the Mark Fitzgibbon Trio, Bob Sedergreen and Friends, Margie Lou Dyer Quintet, James Sherlock Quartet, Jackie Bornstein Quartet, Emma Gilmartin Quartet, Ruth Rogers-Wright Quartet, Peter Baylor's "Ultrafox", Wilbur Wilde Quartet, Stephen Magnusson Trio, Jamie Oehlers Quartet, Scott Tinkler Standards Quartet, Sam Keevers Quartet, Andrea Keller Trio, Bopstretch, Carl Morgan Quartet, Dale Barlow Quartet, Hetty Kate Quintet, Dale Barlow Quintet, Julien Wilson Trio, Roger Clark Quintet with Sarah Maclaine, Dizzy's Big Band, Tribute to Blue Note, Warren Willis, Craig Schneider Trio, Unspoken Rule, Monash University Jazz Futures featuring Ari Hoenig Trio, Play School's Big Jazz Adventure, La Grande Soiree, Senegambian Jazz Band, Maria Moles & Adam Halliwell, Music Yared, Au Dre, Shio, Gospel Sundays, Audrey Powne Quartet, Lillian Albazi Quintet.
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2012
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2011
Overground Festival 2011
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2010
Charles Lloyd, John Abercrombie, Zakir Hussain, Ahmad Jamal, Mulatu Astatke, Peter Brötzmann, Avishai Cohen, John Hollenbeck, Theo Bleckmann, Paul Grabowsky, Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, Jamie Ohlers, Mike Nock, Jo Lowry, Stu Hunter, Flap!, Paul Capsis, Joe Chindamo Trio, Clare Bowditch, Lior, Whitley and Megan Washington.
Overground Festival 2010
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2009
Actis Dato Quartet, Adam Simmons, Allan Browne/ Sam Anning/ Marc Hannaford trio, Andrea Keller, Bill Frisell, Bum Creek, Carl Riseley,
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2008
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2007
Artist Lineups 1998-2004
International artists included
Australian artists included Graeme Bell, Bernie McGann, Paul Grabowsky, Australian Art Orchestra, Don Burrows, Dale Barlow, Bob Barnard, Peter Gaudion, Tom Baker, Society Syncopators, Ted Vining Trio, Ten Part Invention, The Engine Room, Mike Nock, Cathy Harley Quintet, bucketrider big band, Jamie Oehlers, James Morrison, Joe Chindamo, Theaktet, James Muller, The Necks, Fiona Burnett, Allan Browne, Steve Hunter's Nine Lives, Aron Ottignon, David Tolley, Roger Bell, Vince Jones, SNAG, Jex Saarelaht, Ian Chaplin, Keith Hounslow, The Hoodangers, Shelley Scown, Judy Jacques, Yarra Yarra Jazz Band, John Gill, Danny Moss, The Catholics, The Cat Empire, Nina Ferro, Aaron Choulai, David Jones, Dick & Christa Hughes, Erik Griswold, Dave MacRae & Joy Yates, Michelle Nicolle, Doug DeVries, Bob Sedergreen, Brian Brown, Band of Five Names, Niko Schauble, Andrea Keller, Scott Tinkler and Rob Burke.
Venues
- Bennetts Lane Jazz Club
- Melbourne Town Hall
- Arts Centre Melbourne
- Melbourne Recital Centre
- The Jazzlab
- 170 Russell
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Federation Square
- Bluestone Church Arts Space
- Chunky Move
- Clocktower Centre
- Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre
- Deluxe Bar & Lounge
- District North
- Dizzy's Jazz Club
- Kindred Studios
- Lido Jazz Room
- Mango Lounge Bar
- Monash University Music Auditorium
- The Toff in Town
- The Reverence Hotel
- The White House
- St James
- Uptown Jazz Cafe
- VU at MetroWest
References
- ^ ‘The Age Saturday 22 December 2001'-"Jazz Club Owner Rescues Festival”
- ^ Andra Jackson, New jazz festival chief promises big names, The Age, 15 September 2006. Accessed 18 November 2008
- ^ Cashmere, Paul (18 March 2020). "Melbourne International Jazz Festival Cancelled". Noise11.com. The Noise Network. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ^ "These Digital Times". www.melbournejazz.com. Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Jazz festival surviving these digital times" (PDF) (Press release). Melbourne International Jazz Festival. 22 May 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2021.