Jazz Aotearoa: Notes towards a New Zealand history
Richard Hardie and Allan Thomas (Eds)

	General History, Music Price: $29.99 Availability: now Format: A5 paperback, 104 pages ISBN: 978-1-877448-59-1 Add this book to your shopping bag

About the Book

Beginning with a perceptive look at the early forays into the world of jazz in Australia and New Zealand, Jazz Aotearoa is the first step in documenting the history and great moments of improvised music in this land. 

Jazz in all its variety and splendour is here: classic performers like Mike Nock and Allan Broadbent; world-class events such as the Tauranga Jazz Festival; livewire venues like Wellington’s Space and Happy; and the challenging fusion of taonga pūoro, traditional Māori instruments, with the saxophone in which the very definition of ‘jazz’ as improvised music is stretched to its limit.

Download a discussion with editors Richard Hardie and Allan Thomas from Radio New Zealand's 'The Arts on Sunday' programme here.

Read a review from the Northern Jazz Society.

About the Author

Includes articles by John Whiteoak, Richard Hardie, Norman Meehan and David Edwards, as well as a dialogue with Richard Nunns and Jeff Henderson on traditional Māori instruments.