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  2. Frank Traynor - Wikipedia

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    Frank Traynor (8 August 1927 – 22 February 1985) was an Australian jazz musician, trombonist and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He led Australia’s longest continuously running jazz band, the Jazz Preachers, from 1956 until his death in 1985. [1] He founded the Melbourne Jazz Club in 1958.

  3. The Port Jackson Jazz Band - Wikipedia

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    One of these recordings was Jazz Classics Volume 1, credited to Ray Price and his Port Jackson Jazz Band. [18] After Ray Price retired in 1982, he occasionally rejoined The Port Jackson Jazz Band for reunions until his death in 1990. [19] [7] In 1988 the band reformed again with Ken Flannery as their only surviving original member. [3]

  4. Australian jazz - Wikipedia

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    In the 2010s, jazz music continues to be a valid and visible form of expression in Australia. Although jazz is virtually ignored by mainstream media, Australia is home to one of the only national 24/7 jazz networks in the world, ABC Jazz as part of the national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

  5. List of 2023 deaths in popular music - Wikipedia

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    Country music instrumentalist: 85: October 9, 2023: Branson, Missouri, U.S. Undisclosed [220] Rudolph Isley The Isley Brothers: 84: October 11, 2023: Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Heart attack [221] Carla Bley Jazz composer and pianist: 87: October 17, 2023: Brain cancer [222] Dwight Twilley The Dwight Twilley Band: 72: October 18, 2023: Stroke while ...

  6. ABC Jazz - Wikipedia

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    ABC Jazz is a part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was originally broadcast on ABC Classic FM.Dig Jazz was launched as a digital only station designed to broadcast a variety of different jazz styles including bebop, acid jazz, cool jazz and contemporary styles of jazz.

  7. Tributes for Tina Turner, the global music superstar, after ...

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    A collection of tributes that poured in Wednesday from musicians, actors and athletes following the death of musical superstar Tina Turner, “I’m so saddened by the passing of my wonderful ...

  8. Australian Jazz Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum holds an extensive collection of discs, audio cassettes, posters, books, photographs, instruments and ephemera including works by such Australian Jazz luminaries as Graeme Bell, Bob Barnard, Ade Monsbourgh, Smacka Fitzgibbon and Frank Traynor together with magazines, periodicals and newspaper articles on Australian jazz musicians and many international performers.

  9. Australian Jazz Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Jazz Convention is the longest running annual jazz event in the world. [1]Frank Johnson's Dixielanders at 1st Australian Jazz Convention, Melbourne 1946. The idea for the event originated when Abe Monsbourgh was serving in the RAAF in 1944 and wrote to a friend with an idea to run a “jazz convention” once the war had ended.