Australian jazz quartet biography for kids

          Veteran Australian jazz pianist, bandleader and composer Graeme Bell was born into a musical family in Melbourne in and was introduced to jazz by his....

          The Australian Jazz Quartet

          Australian Jazz Quartet

          Genrescool jazz, mood jazz
          Instrument(s)piano, flute, alto sax, clarinet, bass, bassoon, tenor sax, vibraphone, percussion
          Years active1954 (1954)–1958 (1958)

          Musical artist

          The Australian Jazz Quartet (AJQ), also known as the Australian Jazz Quintet, was a jazz group active in the 1950s, best known for collaborations with Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan and Carmen McRae.

          Biography

          The group was formed in 1953 by three Australians and one American.

          Her Jazz Band in Sydney in , publicised as 'Australia's first jazz band', and those by Frank Ellis and His Californians, who visited from the USA in.

        1. Biography.
        2. Veteran Australian jazz pianist, bandleader and composer Graeme Bell was born into a musical family in Melbourne in and was introduced to jazz by his.
        3. Jazz is raised ' In. the Australian Jazz Quartet (later Quintet), which included Brokensha and.
        4. The group was formed in by three Australians and one American.

          5. The group was unusual in that it featured bassoon, flute, and vibraphone along with the more conventional jazz instruments, saxophone, piano, bass, and drums. Australians Errol Buddle (bassoon and tenor saxophone), Bryce Rohde (piano), and Jack Brokensha (vibraphone and percussion) arrived in Windsor, Canada during 1952–1953.

          These three planned to form a group and tour the US, but visa difficulties initially prevented this, so they settled dow