audio LINKS

This folder provides links to interviews, lectures, broadcasts or speeches which are in digital form on the internet. Readers can click on the INDEX button to peruse a list of contents.   

JUDY BAILEY

Interviewed by Andrew Dickeson & Gai Bryant

ABC Jazz Voices Series, 2013

Judy Bailey holds a special place in Australian jazz history as one of this country's earliest and most prominent female jazz musicians and teachers. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand and raised in Whangarei, where she commenced formal piano studies at the age of ten. Six years later, she obtained the ATCL (piano performance) qualification. She arrived in Australia in 1960…

DAVE MACRAE

Interviewed by Andrew Dickeson

ABC Jazz Voices Series, August 23, 2018

Pianist Dave MacRae talks about his life in music – his time in the UK and US, and working with the likes of Buddy Rich – on this episode of Jazz Voices, hosted by Andrew Dickeson. This is another episode in Sydney drummer Andrew Dickeson’s long-running Jazz Voices interview series on ABC Jazz. In this series, he documents the careers of Australian musos in their own words, and in this episode, we hear from pianist Dave MacRae…

JIMMY SHAW & GAIETY SWING BAND ON TELEVISION

Channel Nine variety show Midday, 1996

This video on YouTube documents an appearance by Jimmy Shaw’s Gaiety Swing Band in 1996 on the Channel Nine variety show Midday, compered by Kerri-Anne Kennerley. It was entitled “Woody Herman Revisited”. The band performed the George Wallington composition Lemon Drop which may be best-known from the recording by the Woody Herman orchestra. This version features some spirited scat singing by Bobby Scott and Jimmy Shaw himself, with the legendary American Don Lamond on drums…