OBITUARIES

This folder includes obituaries for jazz musicians or persons of significance to the Australian jazz community, written by several contributors. Click on the INDEX box to access a list of obituaries contained in this folder.

OBITUARY: KEITH HOUNSLOW 1928-2020

by Eric Myers

The Australian, February 20, 2020

A great jazz musician, Keith Hounslow never learnt to read music, and only had a primitive awareness of chords and related scales. Yet he was active in Australian jazz for more than 60 years, achieving a level of brilliance rivalled by only a handful of this country’s most distinguished musicians…

OBITUARY: DON BURROWS 1928-2020

by Eric Myers

The Australian, March 16, 2020

Don Burrows will be remembered primarily as a formidable populariser of jazz in Australia. Amongst his many honours were the MBE (1972) and the AO (1986), but what was most striking about his career was his accumulation of firsts as a jazz musician - the achievement of significant milestones which enabled him to dominate Australian jazz for most of his career…

OBITUARY: ADE MONSBOURGH 1917-2006

by Diana Allen OAM

July, 2006

Ade ‘Lazy Ade’ Monsbourgh was born on the 17th February 1917 in Melbourne.  He died in Nathalia, Victoria, on the 13th July, 2006.  I first met him in the early ‘80s when he came to Glenormiston in Neville Stribling’s band to perform for a concert that I had arranged during my many years in the Western District of Victoria…