The panel for Conversation on Tradition vs Progress includes one of the new leading voices in American jazz, the acclaimed pianist Jason Moran, Australia’s most respected improvising jazz trumpeter Scott Tinkler, and program director of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Sophie Brous.
Panel: Adrian Jackson (festival director/journalist, Australia), Jason Moran (artist, USA), Sophie Brous (artist/festival director, Australia), Scott Tinkler (artist, Australia)
For more information of the 2010 Melbourne International Jazz Festival (May 1 to 8), visit www.melbournejazz.com.
Featuring
Jason Moran
Internationally acclaimed as a ‘modern master’ of music (Jazztimes), pianist Jason Moran’s significance as a leading voice in jazz must be heard to be believed.
His creative curiosity has led him to incorporate disparate elements of early jazz and contemporary classical exploration, establishing him as one of the key pianists of his generation.
Allan Browne
Allan Browne is one of Australia’s most acclaimed jazz drummers and band leaders, having collaborated with many of the great names in jazz. In the 1960s he established the Red Onion Jazz Band internationally.
In the 1990’s Allan performed with the Paul Grabowsky Trio, Onaje, The Paul Rettke Quartet, Shelley Scown and Margie Lou Dyer, while leading The New Orleans Rascals and co-leading four trios which alternated regularly at his residency on Mondays at Bennett’s Lane Jazz Club. In November 2000 he received the prestigious Don Banks Award for his contribution to Australian music.
Adrian Jackson
Adrian Jackson is the artistic director of the prestigious Wangaratta Jazz Festival.
Jackson’s love of jazz began at age 14 when, together with his parents and older brother Martin, he went to a Giants of Jazz concert featuring some truly great international jazz names: Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt and others. Having learned classical piano at an earlier age, the inspired teenager began taking lessons on saxophone and continued playing while beginning an economics degree at Monash University. As one of Australia’s most influential jazz promoters for over twenty years, Jackson has presented hundreds of local and international performers across diverse styles of jazz.
Sophie Brous
Sophie Brous is the Program Director of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.
A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and having studied at the New England Conservatorium in Boston, Sophie, has made her mark within Melbourne’s jazz scene. A vocalist, she has own band Courage Brous! and is involved in an on-going collaboration with Paul Grabowsky and Sam Anning (Cut Copy, Augie March).
Scott Tinkler
Australian trumpeter Scott Tinkler has been performing professionally since 1983 and is well known for his many brilliant incarnations as an ensemble player, recording and touring with such groups as the Australian Art Orchestra, Mark Simmonds Freeboppers, The Paul Grabowsky Quintet and The Dale Barlow Quintet as well as with international artists such as Mark Helias, Joe Lovano, Betty Carter, Branford Marsalis, Han Bennink, Billy Harper, Arthur Blythe, Cindy Blackman and Guru Kaaraikkudi Mani.