Changing the Face of Jazz

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Changing the Face of Jazz is a podcast series that focuses on Australian female jazz instrumentalists who have come to prominence in recent years.

Episodes

  1. Changing the Face of Jazz with Jodie Michael

    03/11/2024

    Changing the Face of Jazz with Jodie Michael

    On this episode of Changing the Face of Jazz, Mick Paddon is in conversation with Jodie Michael. Jodie Michael was the recipient of the 2013 Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. After gaining experience playing in jazz ensembles at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music, Jodie earned multiple scholarships. After touring the USA with her local Jazz Orchestra, [...]Read More... from Changing the Face of Jazz with Jodie Michael

    22 min

  2. 03/04/2024

    Changing the Face of Jazz with Ellen Kirkwood

    On this episode of Changing the Face of Jazz, Mick Paddon speaks with Ellen Kirkwood. Ellen Kirkwood is an award-winning composer, trumpeter, bandleader and educator. She an Australian-born person of British heritage, living on unceded Wangal Country in Sydney’s Inner West. [...]Read More... from Changing the Face of Jazz with Ellen Kirkwood

    24 min
  3. Changing the Face of Jazz with Hilary Geddes

    02/26/2024

    Changing the Face of Jazz with Hilary Geddes

    On this episode of Changing the Face of Jazz, Mick Paddon speaks with Hilary Geddes. Hilary Geddes is a guitarist, improviser and composer based in Eora/Sydney on Gadigal Land. She is the 2021 Freedman Jazz Fellow, a 2021 ABC Jazz Scholarship, and the 2019 recipient of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. Hilary is the bandleader [...]Read More... from Changing the Face of Jazz with Hilary Geddes

    31 min

  4. 09/13/2023

    Changing the Face of Jazz With Alex Silver

    Trombone player, and band leader Alex Silver is featured in the Changing the Face of Jazz series .  The series focuses on young women instrumentalists who have been making their names in jazz in recent years. Alex tells how, when faced with a choice between playing glockenspiel and trombone in a school band, she opted [...]Read More... from Changing the Face of Jazz With Alex Silver

    26 min
  5. Jess Dunn Making Jazz in Australia

    09/13/2023

    Jess Dunn Making Jazz in Australia

    Bass player Jess Dunn  is the featured musician in this Changing the Face of Jazz.  Jess says of herself that she came to playing music fairly late, by which she means her late teens. She progressed from a hand-me-down electric bass to a stand-up acoustic one and then developed a taste for jazz. She graduated [...]Read More... from Jess Dunn Making Jazz in Australia

    24 min

  6. 07/24/2023

    Alto player Tessie Overmyer: starting at the top with Charlie Parker

    Tessie Overmyer is a saxophonist primarily playing the alto sax. She has been making a huge impact on the Sydney and Australian jazz scenes in the past couple years.  In this profile she describes taking up the alto at school (though she might have been an oboe player if one had been available) .  She [...]Read More... from Alto player Tessie Overmyer: starting at the top with Charlie Parker

  7. 09/15/2021

    Changing the face of Jazz with saxophonist Loretta Palmeiro

    Changing the Face of Jazz, is a series of profiles of  women, jazz instrumentalists.  The featured musician in this edition is saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist Loretta Palmeiro. Loretta has been a member of and soloist in a wide range of ensembles which have made an important impact on Australian music, including the Sirens, the Divergence [...]Read More... from Changing the face of Jazz with saxophonist Loretta Palmeiro

  8. 07/16/2021

    Chloe Kim’s Korean drumming Changing the Face of Jazz

    Chloe Kim is a drummer.  In this profile she beings by telling us why she describes herself as a drum kit specialist rather than  a percussionist.  Chloe started playing music when she was very young.  She switched to the drums as much, as she tells us, for the look of the kit as for the [...]Read More... from Chloe Kim’s Korean drumming Changing the Face of Jazz

    19 min

  9. 07/10/2021

    Changing the Face of Jazz -the inspiration of Nadje Noordhuis , from Kenny Wheeler to NYC

    Nadje Noordhuis is a trumpeter, flugel horn player and educator.  In this profile we hear her describing how she started playing music at a very early age but was introduced to jazz much later.  Her ears were opened to the music by the legendary Kenny Wheeler.  Moving from Australia to New York she talks about [...]Read More... from Changing the Face of Jazz -the inspiration of Nadje Noordhuis , from Kenny Wheeler to NYC

  10. 05/04/2018

    Emma Stephenson from New York to Time and Space

    2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowship Award winner Emma Stephenson has been living and working in New York for the past eight months. She was briefly back in Sydney in April to attend a couple of weddings which gave Mick Paddon, presenter of Time and Space a chance to catch up with her to ask about how [...]Read More... from Emma Stephenson from New York to Time and Space

    33 min
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About

Changing the Face of Jazz is a podcast series that focuses on Australian female jazz instrumentalists who have come to prominence in recent years.

Information

  • Creator
    89.7 Eastside FM
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2023 89.7 Eastside FM
  • Show Website
    Changing the Face of Jazz