For your pleasure….. Coming attractions…. JUL/AUG Newsletter 2016

The Calibre Cats are bringing the swing! Featuring the sexy lead vocals of Bridget "Dollface" Burnell and the finest musicians in Brisbane, this high energy eight piece swing band is sure to have you off your seat and dancing the night away. .So get out your wingtips, dust off your pinstripes, and get lindy hoppin' to the Swing Nouveau musical stylings of the Calibre Cats -- President’sPresident’s ReportReport --

Greetings to all the treasured members and friends of the Sunshine Coast Jazz Club!

Each and every one of you is so important to us because you are the Jazz Club and when you attend any of our events, even if it's only once a year, you are supporting the club and enabling it to continue. We couldn’t do it without you, we appreciate you, and I would like to take this mo- ment to personally thank you for your patronage.

Speaking of attending only one event, this is one event that you shouldn't miss. To celebrate our club and the fabulous music of Jazz, we are organising our very first ball. Yay. On Saturday, 6th August, the Jazz Club is proudly presenting the Midwinter Masquerade - A Costume Ball.

The Midwinter Masquerade will be a brilliant night, with outstanding dance music provided by The Calibre Cats, great food and terrific prizes. The catering will include delicious, ongoing finger food, canapés and small plates rather than a structured, sit down meal, so you will be free to eat when you please, mingle, and dance all night. As a consideration to our valued guests, we have decided to make all beverages BYO so that you can enjoy the drinks you like, at the price that you like to pay. Of course, glassware will be provided. It's going to be a fabulous, for- mal night of food, frolics, and dancing. Our glittering Masquerade Ball is truly going to be a night not to be missed.

What's that? What's the masquerade bit? Why, that's one of the best bits! This is your fantasy, your night to be any- thing you want. Wear a mask, wear a costume, dress up as anything you'd like to be for a night. Would you like to be a fairy queen, or a swashbuckling pirate, a character from a book or movie? Would you like to wear something nice but add an air of mystique with a mask? Go for it! Did I mention that there will be prizes for the best costumes? Well, there will be, so start thinking.

I have met many of you already, and I am thoroughly looking forward to seeing you again at the Masquerade and those whom I haven't yet had the pleasure of meeting, I will be absolutely delighted to greet you at the Ball.

Let's make the Sunshine Coast Jazz Club’s inaugural Midwinter Ball a night to remember!

Donna Nagel

Vice-President’s Report Message from our Secretary

2 Great Shows.The Andrews Sisters We’ve had a few new mem- Tribute Show….A really great show / bers in the last two months, even had to sit people at the back / and they are: Everybody commented / had a good time. Rudi and Elizabeth Ager- beek, Ros Evans and Mar- Followed up by Mal Woods & his all shall Grey. We extend new Jazz Musicians. them a big welcome.

Now Sunday 3rd July the always popular Caxton Street I enjoyed my stint on Sunshine FM 104.9 Com- Jazz Band. munity Radio, covering Tony Hennessey’s “Sunday Jazz” programme, but he’s back from his NEXT SHOW STOP PRESS The CALIBRE CATS 8 holiday and will resume his normal shows. I ex- Piece Group ALL YOU DANCERS do not miss. tend a big thank you to him for allowing me to Our thanks to our President Donna Nagel ….This is really step into his shoes for 5 weeks. her brain wave & it is shaping up as the EVENT of our year. Of course, the Big Event that everybody’s talking about is the upcoming Midwinter Masquerade Please,anybody that can assist, please advise Jules & or Costume Swing Ball. Without Donna’s vision and Carlyn. tenacity to arrange this at such short notice, it would never have got off the ground. This is a Once again, my thanks to everybody on our team, but also first for the Club and a definite highlight for our my thanks to all of our supporters. diaries.

Lets keep up the good shows for our Club. We may not be I also want to thank Robyn Brown for managing to the biggest Jazz Club in Australia, but other clubs keep talking about us. make sense of all our various scribbles and at- tachments and putting it all together into a vibrant, Bill Connor enjoyable newsletter.

Vice President. Jules Verity Where When Who

A QUICK WORD FROM THE MAN - RED SOCKS

Hi in listening land, the photo is of some of our members at Merimbula jazz festival. It’s as good as any festival starting 1983 on the hat the badge + more. All those years ago V.J.C organized buses and motels. It grew to where nearly 2000 jazzers dig it. The sox was not as old then and could party with all. This was the birth of the hat ++++++++ Well that was some time back. That old rocking chair is now on the front porch. Well there you go...

August is looking good.

The Brisbane jazz club with Alan Western hosted the big band festival... I agree with the cat in the hat, John morrison + jacki cooper - I dips me lid china lid {to Alan West- ern] The photos are too dark but they packed the joint .... inc SCHOOL BANDS......

2016 29th Newcastle jazz festival is the place to be. I can not be there this year. Sorry dear friends.

A long standing member Robyn Brown (Sassy Jazz) is presenting top jazz on the coast. t/no 0403 152 397 We need more jazz on the sunny coast to promote all that JAZZ+ BLUES. dips me lid

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THE ANDREW SISTERS

On Mother’s Day at the Currimundi Hotel Function Room we waited in anticipation for The Andrew Sisters . The supporting Band led by Trumpet man Peter Upman gave an intro then marching on stage in full USA uniforms came the girls. Was it Maxine ,Patti and La Verne the original Sisters?? No ! We had our own Andrew Gals who wasted no time starting with The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. The crowd applauded and never stopped. Every song the girls sang we knew. All the favourites from the 40’s and 50’s made well known by the Andrew Sisters. “Beat Me Daddy, Roll out The Barrel, Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree “and many more. They just kept rolling out with continual applause.

The next set opened with Peter and the group belting out a bracket of Glenn Miller’s old favourites. Peter sang a couple of songs including the Armstrong hit “What a Wonderful World”, then the girls appeared in beautiful Ball Gowns for more great songs as a group and then each girl took a solo. As an added plus Jo gave a crowd jumpin’ boogie solo. A short break then the girls reappeared in the USA Uniforms and took us along “Route 66” then a wonderful bracket of World War 2 songs. Songs made fa- mous by the British Songbird VERA LYNN. I think there were a few tears shed during this bracket. Then the final “In the Mood” led to a great round of applause which encouraged the girls [I don’t think they needed encourage- ment] and the band to finish a superb afternoon with the opening song as the encore “ Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”.

To The Andrew Sisters and the Band Thank You.

Thank You.

Brian Fane -- NEWSNEWS -- Sun 3rd July The Sunshine Coast Jazz Club Inc proudly presents TheThe CaxtonCaxton StSt JazzJazz BandBand Kawana Community Hall, Buddina (behind the library) 3rd July 2016 Doors open 2:00pm, show starts 2:30pm to 5:30pm MEMBERS $20, NON-MEMBERS $25, SENIORS U3A $22.50 Lots of room for dancers! BYO everything + glasses. The Pink Ladies will be selling coffee or tea + cake for $5. Bookings - Carlyn 5444 7502 Pay cash at the door. Information - Ted 5491 6017 A SPECIAL ONE ONLY SHOWCASE CONCERT ON THE SUNSHINE COAST!

Sun 28th Aug

Direct from Carnegie Hall’s Cole Porter 125th birthday concert, Matt brings his solo piano show to the Sunshine Coast on his new album world tour!

DATE: Sunday the 28th of Aug, 2016 TIME: Doors open at 12:30pm with the show running from 2:00pm - 4:30pm WHERE: Currimundi Hotel Function Room, Buderim St, Currimundi PRICE: Members - $20.00 Seniors & U3A - $22.50 Public - $25.00

To make a booking via Credit Card please phone Carlyn on 5444 7502, alternatively purchase your tickets on the door (cash only). For all other enquiries, please phone Ted on 5491 6017

A Man and his Piano. From New York to the Sunshine Coast. Australian Jazz Pianist Matt Baker has been living in New York since 2010. He has performed at jazz festi- vals,clubs and concert halls in Australia, Europe, USA and the Pacific and plays regularly all over New York. He has become highly regarded and in-demand as a pianist, composer, singer and musical director. Recently performing in the Cole Porter 125th Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall, he has now released his 5th album and is touring Australia. You must be seated by 1:45pm for this showcase concert.

We will have a concert grand piano specially for Matt - Thank you to our sponsor, Nigel Bland Warehouse for providing the grand piano. Don’t miss it!

-- NEWSNEWS --

A jazz trio is playing a gig at an upscale nightclub. They play a classic bebop tune at a fleet tempo with grace and ease. Then comes a Wayne Shorter com- position filled with mysterious harmonies, poignant melodies and daring improvisations. Next they present a medley of lesser known Harold Arlen songs that only a connoisseur would recognize, again played with ele- gant styling and exquisite taste. The whole evening has been one dazzling performance after another. Though the trio is playing background music and not a formal concert, the audience can sense the musical display they are witnessing is of such a high caliber that the musicians should be allowed to perform as they please without interference. Then a well-dressed middle-aged man approaches the bandstand and asks the pianist "Can you play Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago?" The pianist tells the man they are jazz musicians and that they usually don't Check out and ‘LIKE’ our Sunshine Coast Jazz take requests of that sort. The man reaches into his Club Inc facebook page - coat pocket and pulls out three one hundred dollar bills www.facebook.com/SunshineCoastJazzClubInc which he lays out on the piano. The pianist looks at the bass player and drummer and says "Lara's Theme in G." They play the tune in the fashion of the original ver- sion, the pianist emulating the Balalaika textures with a delicate upper register tremolo. The song obviously does not present the same level of difficulty that the trio is accustomed to dealing with. As the pianist plays, he absent-mindedly gazes at the soundboard of his ebony Steinway B and wonders about the grain in the wood. "How would the tonal characteristics be altered if the grain of the sound- board ran perpendicular to the strings rather than par- allel", he silently asks himself. The bass player amuses himself with an assortment of well-placed double-stops and harmonics. He day- dreams as he looks at the top of his mid-nineteenth century double bass made by French master, Paul Claudot, and wonders "How many times has the top been varnished, how did the varnish of past years dif- fer from today's, how would the resonance properties be affected if there were no varnish at all?" The drummer gazes down onto the single-ply, medium -weight head of his 1950's vintage black oyster pearl snare drum and thinks to himself: "One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three."

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UPCOMING GIGS 2016 -

3rd Jul - Caxton St, Kawana Community JAZZ ON THE RADIO

30th-31st Jul - Nambour Winter Jazz Fest, Nam- 104.9FM - Sunday Jazz with Brian Fane, bour Sun 6-7pm

th 101.3FM - Modern Jazz, Wayne 6 Aug - Masquerade Ball, Kawana Community Hall Carlson, Wed 2-4pm

94.7 FM - Coral Coast - Sounds like Jazz with - th 28 Aug - Matt Baker, Currimundi Hotel Sun 6-8pm George Bavington, Jazz on Sunday Tue 2-4pm Valerie Brown - Good FESTIVAL ROUNDUP time jazz Wed 2-4pm Brian Henry - My kind Devonport Jazz Festival 23rd-26th July of jazz www.devonportjazz.com Tue 9-11am Peter Linney - Big band jazz & swing Nambour Winter Jazz Fest, 30-31st July 90.3FM ABC - various www.nambourwinterjazzfest.com.au Radio GC - streaming Broadbeach Jazz Festival 16th-18th Aug 95.9FM - Popular Jazz Sessions, www.broadbeachjazz.com Sun 11am-1pm 28th Newcastle Jazz Festival 99.7FM - Saturday 9am-12noon 28th-30th Aug www.newcastlejazz.com.au 100.3FM 4Bay - Gloria Davey, Tues 8-10pm

Hot August Jazz Hobart, 29th-30th Aug 101FM - All that Jazz with Barry Ralph, www.hobartjazzclub.com Sun 6-7:30pm

101.5FM Logan - Jazz with Iris Pyle, Wynnum Manly Jazz Festival, 6th Sep Wed 10am-12noon www.wmjazzfest.com.au 102.1FM 4ZZZ - Jazz show with Isaac Hurren, Westport Jazz Festival, 3rd-9th Oct Sun 9am-12noon Westport Club, Port Macquarie 103.7FM 4MBS - Jazz with Wrigley & Clark, Wangaratta Jazz Festival, 30th-18th Oct - Mon & Fri 1-2pm 2nd Nov, www.wangarattajazz.com Jazz tonight, Tue, Wed, Thur, 10:30-12am

88.7FM - Jazz up late with Greg Koster, Fri 10:30-12:30am