BELL JAZZ LECTURES

The  Doubly Gifted  Committee and  Waverley  Library named  this lecture series  on jazz the Bell Jazz Lectures, in  honour of Graeme Bell's outstanding contribution to jazz in  Australia and abroad  over  the previous 50 years.   He was an outstanding pianist, excellent band  leader, and composer of note, who died on June 13, 2012. Graeme was also  a talented artist who  exhibited in the Doubly Gifted exhibitions of visual art works by jazz musicians, as well as contributing to other  exhibitions. The series began in 1993 and concluded in 2014. Read these lectures also at www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/services/library/reference_library/doubly_gifted_annual_bell_jazz_lectures

YOU CAN'T TEACH JAZZ: MUSIC EDUCATION, MUSIC INSTITUTIONS AND BEYOND

by Craig Scott

22nd  annual Bell Jazz Lecture delivered September 27, 2014 at Waverley Library

This lecture  will  look  at  how previous  generations  of  musicians became jazz players and examine whether these processes are the same as the processes that take place at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music now. I have been involved in music for a good part of my life - 42 years in fact.  I began playing professionally while I was still at school, doing shows at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre, and The Marian Street Theatre in Killara with my brother Phil Scott…