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The museum holds an extensive collection of discs, audio cassettes, posters, books, photographs, instruments and ephemera including works by such Australian Jazz luminaries as Graeme Bell, Bob Barnard, Ade Monsbourgh, Smacka Fitzgibbon and Frank Traynor together with magazines, periodicals and newspaper articles on Australian jazz musicians and many international performers.
Australia has two main jazz archives, the Australian Jazz Museum and the National Film and Sound Archive's Australian Jazz Archive. The latter was started in 1997 by members of the Australian jazz community, and collects photos, recordings, and oral histories. [22]
Australian Jazz Museum is a museum located in Wantirna, Victoria. It incorporates the Victorian Jazz Archive and also houses the Australian Jazz Convention's extensive collection of material within its premises.
The Australian Jazz Convention is the longest running annual jazz event in the world. [1]Frank Johnson's Dixielanders at 1st Australian Jazz Convention, Melbourne 1946. The idea for the event originated when Abe Monsbourgh was serving in the RAAF in 1944 and wrote to a friend with an idea to run a “jazz convention” once the war had ended.
This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicians, the evolution and variety of musical instruments, and other aspects of the world of music.
This list of museums in Victoria, Australia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Australian Jazz Museum; Australian Music Vault; Australian Performing Arts Collection; G. Grainger Museum; N. National Film and Sound Archive; National Library of ...
[10] [11] They performed at the Australian jazz festival in Melbourne over four days in late December 1952. [12] They performed on Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)'s radio station, 3AR from March 1953. [13] Barnard played with Len's group until August 1955, [5] when their touring ended after being "cheated of their takings" and stranded ...