In the lead up to the Sydney International Womens’ Jazz Festival, at the end of October Mick Paddon is relaunching his Changing the Face of Jazz series of podcasts on his weekly show Time and Space. Starting six years ago, the series focuses on Australian female jazz instrumentalists who have come to prominence in recent […]
Eastside FM has been on air for 40 years. As part of our 40th birthday celebrations we’ve selected 40 jazz albums to illustrate the wonderful music we have been playing over those four decades. Phil James, who presents the Philosophy of Jazz each week on Eastside, and Mick Paddon from Time and Space, have curated […]
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The Freedman Fellowship Concert at Sydney Opera House Saturday 3 September 2022 Reviewed by Mick Paddon from Time & Space If you want to hear what Australia’s emerging jazz musicians are up to there is no better place to be than the concert for the finalists for the Freedman Jazz Fellowship. On Saturday September 3rd, […]
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Sydney based jazz guitarist Hilary Geddes is the most recent recipient of the prestigious Jann Rutherford Award. Established in 2005 with active involvement from Sandy Evans, the Award provides support to young female jazz musicians in the early stages of their professional careers. Eastside’s Mick Paddon</strong> has recorded a detailed interview with Hilary. They discussed […]
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Maria Schneideris a multi Grammy Award winning composer and band leader. Originally from Minnesota, she moved to New York City in the mid 1980s to study composition with the great jazz trombonist Bob Brookmeyer. Around the same time, she also began working for legendary jazz composer and arranger Gil Evans. In 1993, she formed the […]
Time and Space has shifted its place on Eastside Radio to Thursdays. Join host Mick Paddon for two hours of contemporary jazz and jazz related music from midday to 2. As always,the show celebrates jazz as an international music with a distinctive Australian flavour. You will hear new takes on old standards and the music […]
At the end of 2019, one of Sydney’s iconic venues for jazz and new music, 505, closed its doors on Cleveland Street. Listed in Downbeat Magazine as one of the world’s 150 best jazz clubs, 505 had offered live music for six nights a week for a decade. For lovers of improvised music, the good […]
Finding Voice is a 25 minute documentary produced by Eastside’s Mick Paddon together with Bangladeshi poet, writer and journalist Humayun Reza “When I first met Humayun Reza, all I knew about him was that he was from Bangladesh and was seeking asylum in Australia with his wife and two daughters. He is a quiet and […]
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Mike Nock has been central to Australian jazz for decades. As a pianist, composer, band leader, educator he is responsible for bringing dozens if not hundreds of young musicians into the Australian scene. His recordings go back to the 70s, performing with jazz greats such as Bennie Maupin and Cecil McBee as well as the […]
Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish journalist and writer who fled from Iran to try to seek asylum in Australia. En route, after a frightening boat trip from Indonesia, he was intercepted and eventually transferred to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea where he has been incarcerated for the past five years. At the beginning of […]
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 […]
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Published just a few weeks ago, Girls at the Piano, is , in part, a memoir of a young girl’s infatuation with the piano which over the years into her adolescence becomes a burden rather than a source of pleasure. It is also the story of her grandmother, a singer and pianist who emigrated to […]