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SOUNZ Jazz Recording Project recipient announced

2020 SOUNZ Jazz Recording Project | Ngā Hopuranga Puoro Tautito a SOUNZ recipient announced.Thomas Botting and his group ‘The Tom Botting Home Ensemble’ have...

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SOUNZ Jazz Recording Project recipient announced.

Bryn van Vliet and his group ‘The Bryn van Vliet Quartet’ with special guest Callum Allardice have been selected for the 2021 SOUNZ Jazz Recording Project | ...

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Thomas Botting

On His Latest Work

I’m Tom Botting, I’m a double bassist and composer working primarily in the jazz genre. I grew up in Hamilton before moving to Auckland to study jazz at Mass...

Podcast

The SOUNZ Podcasts

Episode 3: Rodger Fox: A life in Jazz

‘Rodger Fox has been a central figure in the New Zealand jazz community for decades. From his early career in the rock band, Quincy Conserve to appearances a...

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Jake Baxendale & Jasmine Lovell-Smith

on their new album 'Sanctuary'

SOUNZ talked with Jake Baxendale & Jasmine Lovell-Smith on their new album 'Sanctuary.' The new Jazz album will be released on Saturday 12th June at the ...

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Finding agency in the [classical] arts - Arjuna Oakes

The second instalment of a three part series by Leah Thomas

Far from home: Catching up with Arjuna Oakes Arjuna Oakes is a New Zealand-born, London-based singer/songwriter, pianist, composer and producer. Arjuna is a ...

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Meet Rodger Fox

Rodger Fox is one of New Zealand’s foremost jazz trombonists, big band leaders, a jazz educator, an arranger and a producer. In our Composer Spaces series, w...

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Bruce Brown

on 'Death of Expertise'

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Finding agency in the [classical] arts - Jimmy Rainey & JY Lee

The third instalment of a three part series by Leah Thomas

Creating for the Community: Chatting to JY and Jimmy In April 2021, I inherited the Pōneke Classical Sessions project which brought classical music to a bar ...

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Meet composer

Mark Baynes

Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I am a composer and performer based in Auckland. I am drawn to performances using analogue keyboard instrumenta...