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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| How the 1970s Jazz Revival Restored Dixieland in Adelaide | In Adelaide, the return of traditional jazz during the 1970s was less a sudden fashion than a steady rebuilding of musical community. Dixieland, New Orleans… | |
| Melbourne’s Traditional Jazz Venues Worth Hearing Live | Melbourne has a deep affection for traditional jazz, from New Orleans revival and Dixieland to hot jazz, swing and early bebop. The city’s best listening rooms… | |
| The Rise And Fall Of The 2SM Jazz Program | For generations of Sydney listeners, radio was the most immediate way to encounter jazz. Before television became dominant and long before streaming, a… | |
| Remembering Cecil Williams, drummer, composer and jazz lifer | The death of Dr Cecil Williams in 2024 marked the passing of a significant figure in Australian jazz. Born in 1934, Williams belonged to a generation that… | |
| The day Dizzy Gillespie played at the Sydney Town Hall | For Australian jazz listeners, the memory of Dizzy Gillespie in Sydney belongs to a time when an international star’s arrival could reshape an entire city’s… | |
| Inside the National Film and Sound Archive's Jazz Collection | Tucked away in Canberra's Acton Peninsula, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia holds one of the country's most significant troves of recorded… | |
| How Australian jazz rallied during the Great Depression | When the Great Depression reached Australia, musicians faced a sharp fall in wages, fewer engagements and audiences with very little spare cash. Yet jazz did… | |
| Eve Smith and the Australian sound of Down Under Swing | When Eve Smith walked onto the bandstand at the old El Rocco in Sydney one winter evening in the late 1950s, few in the smoke-filled room would have guessed… | |
| James Morrison's London Symphony album lands with true blue swagger | When James Morrison walks onto a stage, the room rearranges itself. Decades of playing have made the Queensland-born trumpeter and trombonist a fixture of… | |
| The banjo in Australian traditional jazz tradition | The bright plunk of a banjo cutting through a brass ensemble has long been part of the soundtrack at riverside rotundas, RSL halls, and inner-city pubs right… |
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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