As well as leading her own bands, she toured nationally and internationally with Bob Barnard's Jazz Band, and was vocalist on Dave Dallwitz's classic Australian jazz album, 'The Ern Malley Jazz Suite'.
AJF's creative partner, Adelaide Festival Centre has announced the line-up for their UNESCO International Jazz Day concert: ER@SURE DESCRIPTION with drummer extraordinaire Alexander Flood, and 'The New Standard' presented by Women In Jazz Adelaide.
To debut as part of UNESCO's International Jazz Day, the inaugural Adelaide Jazz Festival will offer a three-day programme (28-30 April) featuring an array of young local artists across jazz, funk, soul, R&B and swing genres.
Headlined by Soylent Green, who have been described as the 'future of Australian jazz', the band last year released their debut album that was nominated for the SoundMerch Australian Music Prize for Best Australian Album 2022. They were also equal winners of the national 'Next Gen' selection at 2022 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues.Then there's the 10-piece jazz-funk improvisational outfit Bend fronted by vocalist Kara Manasala, who also brings her own neo-soul-R&B band to Adelaide Jazz Festival.
The 6ft Pelicans are an instrumental nu-funk band featuring four graduates of the University of Adelaide Elder Conservatorium of Music (Jazz).
While what started as a predominantly swing band doing Sinatra, Crosby, Martin and Prima standard tunes, Lucky Seven have expanded their repertoire with strains of jazz, roots and rockabilly.
Fused together after playing weekly at the Grace Emily Hotel for years, Django Rowe Quartet draw influences from the greats such as John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Ornette Coleman; they'll perform a set of modern jazz originals and interpretations as well as hosting the Late Night Jazz Jam at Adelaide Jazz Festival.
"As well as appealing to regular jazz fans, our aim is to surprise, inspire and delight audiences who might think jazz is not really their thing," AJF founder and producer, Kaya Blum says.
"It's a festival for people with passion for music, not just jazz."
Tickets are on sale.
Adelaide Jazz Festival takes place at multiple Adelaide CBD venues 28-30 April.
Adelaide Jazz Festival 2023 Line-up
BendThe 6ft Pelicans
Soylent Green
Kara Manansala
Lucky Seven
Django Rowe Quartet
Penny Eames
Er@sure Description with Alexander Flood
'The New Standard' presented by Women In Jazz Adelaide
