Changing the Face of Jazz Archives

Changing the Face of Jazz with Jodie Michael

On this episode of Changing the Face of Jazz, Mick Paddon is in conversation with Jodie Michael. Jodie Michael was the recipient of the 2013 Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. After gaining experience playing in jazz ensembles at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music, Jodie earned multiple scholarships. After touring the USA with her local Jazz Orchestra, […]

Changing the Face of Jazz with Ellen Kirkwood

On this episode of Changing the Face of Jazz, Mick Paddon speaks with Ellen Kirkwood. Ellen Kirkwood is an award-winning composer, trumpeter, bandleader and educator. She an Australian-born person of British heritage, living on unceded Wangal Country in Sydney’s Inner West. […]

Changing the Face of Jazz with Hilary Geddes

On this episode of Changing the Face of Jazz, Mick Paddon speaks with Hilary Geddes. Hilary Geddes is a guitarist, improviser and composer based in Eora/Sydney on Gadigal Land. She is the 2021 Freedman Jazz Fellow, a 2021 ABC Jazz Scholarship, and the 2019 recipient of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. Hilary is the bandleader […]

Changing the Face of Jazz With Alex Silver

Trombone player, and band leader Alex Silver is featured in the Changing the Face of Jazz series . The series focuses on young women instrumentalists who have been making their names in jazz in recent years. Alex tells how, when faced with a choice between playing glockenspiel and trombone in a school band, she opted […]

Jess Dunn Making Jazz in Australia

Bass player Jess Dunn is the featured musician in this Changing the Face of Jazz. Jess says of herself that she came to playing music fairly late, by which she means her late teens. She progressed from a hand-me-down electric bass to a stand-up acoustic one and then developed a taste for jazz. She graduated […]

Alto player Tessie Overmyer: starting at the top with Charlie Parker

Tessie Overmyer is a saxophonist primarily playing the alto sax. She has been making a huge impact on the Sydney and Australian jazz scenes in the past couple years. In this profile she describes taking up the alto at school (though she might have been an oboe player if one had been available) . She […]

Changing the face of Jazz with saxophonist Loretta Palmeiro

Changing the Face of Jazz, is a series of profiles of women, jazz instrumentalists. The featured musician in this edition is saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist Loretta Palmeiro. Loretta has been a member of and soloist in a wide range of ensembles which have made an important impact on Australian music, including the Sirens, the Divergence […]

Chloe Kim’s Korean drumming Changing the Face of Jazz

Chloe Kim is a drummer. In this profile she beings by telling us why she describes herself as a drum kit specialist rather than a percussionist. Chloe started playing music when she was very young. She switched to the drums as much, as she tells us, for the look of the kit as for the […]

Changing the Face of Jazz -the inspiration of Nadje Noordhuis , from Kenny Wheeler to NYC

Nadje Noordhuis is a trumpeter, flugel horn player and educator. In this profile we hear her describing how she started playing music at a very early age but was introduced to jazz much later. Her ears were opened to the music by the legendary Kenny Wheeler. Moving from Australia to New York she talks about […]

Emma Stephenson from New York to Time and Space

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 […]