Daring to dream: New jazz journal kicks off with exhilarating gig
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By Jessica Nicholas
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Thornbury Theatre, April 30
It’s been 10 years since UNESCO designated April 30 as International Jazz Day. It’s been a lot longer than that since Australia had its own national jazz magazine. So the launch of biannual journal
Dingoon April 30 was deliberately symbolic.
Poet Street perform at the launch of the Australian jazz journal Dingo.
Credit:Aurora Kuhn
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Dingo’s case, the focus is Australian jazz within a global context. Melbourne musician Adam Simmons (one of the magazine’s creators, along with Cal Barry and Perri Winter) is a passionate advocate for the national jazz scene, and sees the magazine as a way of supporting the sector at all levels.
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