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INFORMATION ABOUT BROADCASTING AND RECEPTION OF 5MBS 99.9FM ARTS DIARY: Download or listen on line. NEWSLast update 16 May 2013 Other news items: Generations in Jazz at Mt Gambier
There is a major event in Mt Gambier on the first weekend of May. It is “Generations in Jazz”. James Morrison began it and continues to “lead the bands”. This year there were 2,900 young people from schools all over Australia competing in the Big Band, Vocal and Scholarship sections. Everyone was treated to the sound of Gordon Goodwin’s “Big Phat Band” comprising twenty players. They flew out from America on Thursday 2nd May and flew home on Monday 6th – an extraordinary effort and a privilege for Australia. The band members were involved in judging some of the band divisions. 
The “Idea of North” was also there. They sang and were judges for the vocal competition. This section has increased dramatically since it began three years ago and there are plans to extend it in 2014. Six instrumentalists played in the James Morrison Jazz Scholarship Competition and six vocalists in the Generations in Jazz Vocal Scholarship. The young drummer who won the instrumental section was asked to play with the American Big Phat Band which he did incredibly successfully. The winners include:
It was announced that James Morrison had just been inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame. He is also having a trombone named after him. Of special note is that Modbury High School came 4th in their division under the direction of Rosie Carr and the careful eye of our Doug Clarke. Will, their head alto-sax player, and Carly, their percussionist, were chosen as members of “the superband” for their division. What an inspirational weekend! News from the 5MBS Events Group, which has already been busy this year...On Wednesday 27 March 2013 there was a very successful 'Film Night' at the Mitcham Cinemas. Three hundred supporters of 5MBS watched 'Hyde Park on Hudson'. There were mixed reactions to the film but not to the delicious Coriole wine and Vili’s pies and pasties. We made $4800 net profit. The Public Schools Club (PSC) collaborated with 5MBS at a 'Jazz Afternoon' at the PSC venue on East Terrace. Some one hundred folk listened to 'The Lainie Jamieson Trio' and heard a special guest, Doug Clarke, who is our (5MBS) regular and well loved Friday night jazz presenter. The station made a net profit of $541. JOHN LEWIS MUSICIAN EXTRAORDINAIRE
John Lewis, Pianist, Composer, Arranger and Musical Director, was born on 3rd May 1920 in Illinois. Although he is best known as the Musical Director of the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ). Lewis had many other strings to his bow. Lewis studied classical Piano from the age of seven, but at an early age he was influenced by his Aunt to listen to and play Jazz. He attended the University of New Mexico where he led and performed in a dance band. In 1942 he joined the army and began playing piano for the troops alongside another great Jazz Pianist Kenny Clarke. In 1945, after the war he moved to New York and began playing with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. He also accompanied Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, to name a few. Whilst playing in Gillespie’s big band John Lewis, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, drummer Kenny Clarke and bassist Ray Brown had been the small group within the Gillespie big band, and they frequently played their own short sets when the brass and reeds needed a break or even when Gillespie's band wasn't playing. The small band received a lot of positive recognition and it led to the foursome forming a full-time working group, which they initially called the Milt Jackson Quartet in 1951 but in 1952 renamed the Modern Jazz Quartet. The MJQ played together off and on for many years and made many record breaking albums. John Lewis also wrote Jazz Ballets, film scores and composed numerous tunes, some of which are standards today. He also taught students until late in his life. His work as a musical Director was revered by many great musicians. Lewis played a final concert at Lincoln Center in New York and played repertoire that represented his full musical ability—from playing solo piano to big-band and everything in between. John Lewis died in New York City on March 31, 2001, at the age of 80 after a long battle with prostate cancer. - Denis Wall Broadcasts of Live Recordings at the Fringe5MBS was privileged to record during the Adelaide Fringe Festival shows at Tiffins at the Park. We will be airing these on Cabaret Club at 9 pm on Saturday nights.
Count Down to the Ring
The Fine Music Network will produce a series of ten one-hour programs – Count Down to the Ring, to mark the Opera Australia production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, to be staged later this year. One of these programs will be prepared by our own Christopher Stone. As a member of the Fine Music Network, 5MBS will broadcast these programs, starting in March, on the fourth Monday of each month at 7 pm, replacing Adelaide Made. You will still be able to hear Adelaide Made on the Saturday following the fourth Monday of the month (generally the first Saturday of the next month) at its current time of 5 pm. NEXT BROADCAST OF 'COUNTDOWN TO THE RING': MONDAY, 27 MAY at 7 pm
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