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Australian Jazz Convention
Annual jazz festival and convention in Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Australian Jazz Convention is the longest running annual jazz event in the world.[1]
The idea for the event originated when Abe Monsbourgh was serving in the RAAF in 1944 and wrote to friend Cedric Ian Turner with an idea to run a “jazz convention” once the war had ended. The first Australian Jazz Convention was then held in Melbourne in December 1946, and was attended by musicians from across Australia.[2][3] It was preceded by a one-off Sydney Jazz Week in 1919 as one of the earliest jazz events in the world.[4]
The programme for the first convention in 1946 was printed as an Angry Penguins Broadsheet.[5] The program contained an introduction from Graeme Bell, an article on Duke Ellington, and articles from international critics.[6]
The jazz convention has since been held in different cities and states across Australia each year,[1] with the 76th edition held in Newcastle in 2022.[7]
The archives of the Australian Jazz Convention are held by the Australian Jazz Museum in Victoria.[8] Volunteers at the museum have been digitising audio and video recordings of past events.[9] The National Film and Sound Archive have also released recordings, including of 1949's convention,[10] and have a video recording of the 1970 convention featuring Graeme Bell.[11]
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