Jazz Ramble
Australian jazz, and other ramblings
About Jazz Ramble
Jazz Ramble is a community-driven blog covering Australian jazz news, gig listings, and education resources. With a focus on the Melbourne and Victoria scene, the site brings together gig guides, club directories, festival coverage, and workshop information for jazz enthusiasts and musicians alike.
From the Melbourne International Jazz Festival to local club nights in Geelong, Ballarat, and beyond, Jazz Ramble has been a home for Australian jazz conversation — featuring contributions from across the jazz community.
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| Inside The Seven’s 1972 Jazz From Down Under | The 1972 album Jazz from Down Under captures a particular Australian sound: traditional jazz shaped by local dance halls, pub rooms, radio broadcasts and… | |
| How New Orleans Second Line Shapes Australian Street Parades | The sound of a New Orleans second line travels easily: a snare pattern, a bright trumpet phrase, a sousaphone pushing the bass forward, and a crowd that begins… | |
| Sydney Jazz Classics Revisited: A Box Set With Local Memory | The 2023 reissue of Sydney Jazz Classics arrives as more than a convenient collection of Australian recordings. It is a compact history of how jazz sounded,… | |
| How to Dance the Charleston to Australian Traditional Jazz | The Charleston is a lively partner or solo dance built around buoyant steps, swinging arms and a playful response to the music. Its roots reach back to 1920s… | |
| The Secret History of the Jazz Café in Fremantle | Fremantle has always made room for music that prefers atmosphere to spectacle. Behind the port’s warehouses, pub verandahs and late-night cafés, jazz found an… | |
| A weekend at the Byron Bay Jazz Festival | The road north from Brisbane winds through cane fields and small towns that close early on a Sunday. By the time the Cape Byron Lighthouse comes into view, the… | |
| The lasting influence of jazz education at the Sydney Conservatorium | For more than four decades, the jazz program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music has been a quiet powerhouse in Australian music education. Tucked into the… | |
| Obituary: Bassist and Bandleader Jack Varney (1940–2023) | Jack Varney belonged to the generation of Australian musicians who treated jazz as a living social language. As a bassist, bandleader and committed participant… | |
| How the 1920s Jazz Craze Reached Rural Queensland | Jazz arrived in Queensland as a sound of movement: records crossing oceans, touring musicians travelling by rail, and young dancers gathering in halls far from… | |
| Forgotten jazz clubs of Tasmania's North-West Coast | For years I have driven the Bass Highway between Devonport and Burnie with a quiet sense of unfinished business. The coast here offers paper mills, working… |
Victorian Jazz Clubs
A directory of jazz clubs across Victoria
Jazz Albury Wodonga
156 Lawrence Street, Wodonga VIC 3690
Musical Director: Graeme Cook — 0438 623 462
Venue: The Jazz Basement, Shop 5, 48–52 Lincoln Causeway, Wodonga. Music from 8pm. Bar open 7.30pm. $20, Concession $15.
Ballarat Jazz Club
President & Bookings: Mollie — contact via the club.
Echuca-Moama Jazz Club
Contact: Harry Daniels — harrydaniels@jazzramble.com
Geelong Jazz Club
Contact: Sandy Leaman
Venue: Vines Road Community Centre, 41 Vines Road, Hamlyn Heights.
Phillip Island Jazz Club
Home of the Phillip Island Jazz Festival.
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