JWA trumpet teacher Ellen Kirkwood is the 2012 winner of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. Congratulations Ellen! The Jann Rutherford Memorial Award was founded in 2005 to assist in the professional development of an outstanding young female Australian jazz musician. The Award is named in honour of the late jazz pianist Jann Rutherford, and is [...]

  Buying a drum kit. If you’re thinking about getting a drum kit for yourself or for a young drummer in your family and feel you don’t have nearly enough knowledge or experience to make good choices, the following guide will help you through the process. This guide assumes you’re relatively new to the world [...]

A number of our students at the Jazz Workshop auditioned for various tertiary music courses. We congratulate the following on their audition success: Nick Henderson (bass, student of Saul Richardson, Advanced Combo, & SYJO) accepted into Jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Oli Nelson (drums, student of Dave Goodman, Advanced Combo, & SYJO) accepted [...]

Here is a link to a Youtube video of Gavin Ahearn, one of our piano teachers, playing one of his own compositions, Nimbus, at Cafe church in Glebe, in 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caockSoagWU Gavin teaches on Wednesday afternoons and evenings.  

Regular music lessons and rehearsals at JWA resume the week of Monday February 6th. The office will be open for enquiries, bookings and enrollments from Tuesday January 31. We’re looking forward to seeing everyne again soon! Saul & Karen, JWA.

The tour group have all returned safe and sound…half our luggage is due back tomorrow morning. We flew Korean Airlines, who were excellent apart from this. Internet access proved to be suprisingly difficult over the past few weeks, and hence no regular updates here. Tour members and their families were kept up to date via [...]

January 4 and the internet access drought is finally over. The free internet at Travelodge Hollywood was oatchy at best, and crashed the last day or two we were in LA. The hotel in Barbados, coconut court, was simply not telling the truth when they advertised free wireless internet. The same hotel also managed to [...]

The 2011/2012 USA and Barbados tour is under way! Day one: the flight over. An excited band and excited families met at Sy dney airport at the brisk hour of 6am. Check – in was uneventful apart from the confusion among the staff at the Korean Airlines counter: “you are only allowed one checked bag [...]

After about ten months of preparation the JWA 2011/2012 international tour band is about to leave for Los Angeles. The whole three week itinerary is on our tours page, but it is LA – Barbados – Miami – Orlando – New York. Most of the musicians in the band came to it through Jazz Camp last [...]

After another wonderful year, our fourth, the Jazz Workshop is on holidays for the summer. Normal lessons and rehearsals resume February 6. On Boxing day our tour band will be coming in for a final rehearsal before we set off on tour on December 27. First stop is Los Angeles and a warm up gig [...]