Jazz

PBS has been a welcome home to jazz since its inception. With contemporary jazz, swing, Latin, fusion, lounge, free and vocal jazz on offer throughout the week, you’ll find jazz for every taste on PBS.

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Music Victoria Awards 2023

Tue 31 Oct 2023
PBS Presents

The 2023 Music Victoria Awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday October 31 at The Edge, Fed Square.

Music Victoria has also announced that Kutcha Edwards and industry stalwart and previous PBS board member, Kirsty Rivers will be inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame at this year’s ceremony.

The Music Victoria Awards are proudly presented by PBS and Triple R.

 

Pictured: Baker Boy at the 2022 Music Victoria Awards. Photo credit: Brnjak

Margret RoadKnight - Long Time

Mon 30 Oct 2023 to Sun 5 Nov 2023
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Long Time by Australian blues, folk and jazz legend Margret RoadKnight. Celebrating her 80th birthday in 2023, Margret also celebrates 60 years as a performer, playing her first gig at Melbourne's Emerald Hill Theatre in 1963 at the invitation of folk icon Glen Tomasetti. 

Lewis Coleman by Darvid Thor

Lewis Coleman - Offline

Mon 23 Oct 2023 to Sun 29 Oct 2023
Feature Sounds

Lewis Coleman’s Offline is this week’s PBS Feature Album. Offline is a collection of songs grounded in a desire to generate a current within stagnant and hopeless waters. It marks a significant departure from Coleman's previous, more brooding and introverted record Method of Places, and as he leans into a more confident, outward facing aspect of himself, so too does Offline. It’s music replete with playful arrangements and kinetic opportunity and, as Coleman states, “songs that are hot, warm, saturated and fun”.

Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2023

Fri 20 Oct 2023 to Sun 29 Oct 2023
PBS Presents

Melbourne will emerge as the epicentre of Australia’s vibrant and buzzing jazz scene from October 20 - 29. With over 100 events and performances taking place across ten days, the festival will enliven the streets, concert halls, intimate clubs and even the Melbourne City Baths with a sweeping array of jazz genres from Australia and around the world.

Watch: Nigel Wearne Studio 5 Live

Thu 19 Oct 2023
Studio 5 Live

Nigel Wearne saunters after dark in the music of the night, blending blues, jazz and Americana-noir. Swathed with rambunctious horns, Gretsch guitar, drums and double-bass, they’re a 6-piece with a retro vibe that smacks it straight back to the 60’s. A deep thinker and truth seeker with a penchant for all things peculiar, Wearne sings of human frailty, grace and the cosmos; songwriting that cuts to the bone. 

Maple Glider - I Get Into Trouble

Mon 16 Oct 2023 to Sun 22 Oct 2023
Feature Sounds

Maple Glider’s much anticipated second album, I Get Into Trouble, is this week’s PBS Feature Album.

On the LP, Maple Glider - the moniker of singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch - delves back into her Christian childhood; explores her relationship to her body; consent; shame; and the death of relationships, both romantic and familial. But it’s also hopeful - there is new life, new love, and the desire to reconnect and find peace with it all. The majority of songs are performed on acoustic guitar - the exceptions being the slinky 'Two Years' and lockdown lullaby 'Scream'.

The Seven Ups - A Free Blowing Wind

Mon 9 Oct 2023 to Sun 15 Oct 2023
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is A Free Blowing Wind from 7-piece heavy-groove-combo The Seven Ups.

A Free Blowing Wind takes you on an abstruse journey into the darker fringes of instrumental music, drifting from funk to spiritual jazz and through to psychedelic fuzz rock. The Seven Ups are your soundtrack to the dance floor at the end of the world. 

SYN FM Fundraiser

Thu 5 Oct 2023 to Tue 31 Oct 2023
Community News

Fellow community radio station SYN is at risk of disappearing after 20 years of platforming young people’s voices across Melbourne, Geelong and the country.

Despite the efforts to keep up with the already catastrophic hit the station took in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation and an unexpected loss of core funding from the state government, they have now turned to their cash reserves – funds which can only support them for so long. 

Calling All Music Makers From Geelong

Mon 2 Oct 2023
Community News

For the very first time, Grid is bringing their Artist Development Program to Geelong. Four artists/bands will be invited to participate in a carefully curated program, which includes intensive mentoring, song development, recording sessions, video content, and live performance opportunities.

Click here to apply.

C.O.F.F.I.N - Australia Stops

Mon 2 Oct 2023 to Sun 8 Oct 2023
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Australia Stops, the fifth full-length studio album by Sydney Northern Beaches band C.O.F.F.I.N.