Podcast appearances and mentions of mick paddon

Tessie Overmyer is a saxophonist primarily playing the alto sax. She has been making a huge impact on the Sydney and Australian jazz scenes in the past couple years.  In this profile she describes taking up the alto at school (though she might have been an oboe player if one had been available) .  She was introduced to jazz through listening to Charlie Parker solos when she was still at school.  She decided that she wanted to make a career in music after her experience as a young musician playing at the Newport Jazz Festival But she only really discovered the world of Australian jazz when she went to the Sydney Conservatorium.   Now playing in large and small ensembles she is immersed in Australian jazz, and names Johnathan Zwartz as a major influence.  In the next couple of years, her next move will probably be to study in the USA or Europe Before she speaks, we hear a live recording Tessie made of her trio  playing a piece called Midnight at Central.  After she has been speaking, we hear another live recording of Tessie's from the same trio: Tessie on alto, Chloe Kim on drumset and Jacques Emery on bass.  This piece is called Ecky Thump.  While she is talking there are snatches of the self titled album from the quintet JIEM, which she co-leads with Miles Rooney The profile was produced by Mick Paddon, from an interview he conducted with Tessie. It was first broadcast on the 20th July 2023 on his weekly radio show on Eastside , Time and Space, which airs from 12 midday to 14.00. This podcast is the most recent in a series titled Changing the Face of Jazz.  For the past five years Mick has been producing these profiles of Australian, female jazz instrumentalists, as a follow on to his radio documentary, Music Has No Gender.  They are musicians who are changing the way we see jazz, even if not the way we hear the music

Changing the Face of Jazz, is a series of profiles of  women, jazz instrumentalists.  The featured musician in this edition is saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist Loretta Palmeiro. Loretta has been a member of and soloist in a wide range of ensembles which have made an important impact on Australian music, including the Sirens, the Divergence Jazz Orchestra, and the quintet which is one of her main projects personally, Spyglass Gypsies. And the diversity in the music these ensembles play shows how broad Loretta's musical interests are. From her first experiences in playing the violin, Loretta moved on quickly to the piano and was attracted to the saxophone, literally, by the sounds she heard drifting across her school playground. For this profile, Loretta has provided original music not available on CD: a version of Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, in a duet with guitarist Richard Ashby; a live recording from the Divergence Big Band; and improvised duets recorded with pianist Mark Isaacs when they called their collaboration Some of Two Parts. This profile in Changing the Face of Jazz  was produced by Mick Paddon and originally went to air on Eastside Radio as part of Jazz Made in Australia on February 13th, 2017.

Chloe Kim is a drummer.  In this profile she beings by telling us why she describes herself as a drum kit specialist rather than  a percussionist.  Chloe started playing music when she was very young.  She switched to the drums as much, as she tells us, for the look of the kit as for the sound.  She started playing and listening to jazz when she move to Australia from her home in Korea when she was in her teens. She studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where is now completing a Masters Degree, as well as teaching drum kit.  She shares the advice she would now give to a young teenage woman who is thinking of studying and making a career in music. Chloe has recently been focussing on solo drumming.  Before we her her talk, there is a section of her recording , Recovery- drum solo for Korea.  There is another section of the same piece at the end of the profile.  While she is talking, we hear sections of a piece from her new album.  The piece is titled Repetition.  The album, How to Get Through, was released in May of this year. The profile was first broadcast in Mick Paddon's weekly show, Time and Space, on July 15th This podcast is part of the series, Changing the Face of Jazz, which Mick Paddon has been producing since 2017

Nadje Noordhuis is a trumpeter, flugel horn player and educator.  In this profile we hear her describing how she started playing music at a very early age but was introduced to jazz much later.  Her ears were opened to the music by the legendary Kenny Wheeler.  Moving from Australia to New York she talks about the challenges of making her way in the jazz scene in NYC.  And her search for female role models.  She also talks about the advice she gives to the young female musicians she teaches . Before we hear she speaks, we hear a track of her music , Le Fin, from her 2012 album called simply Nadje Noordhuis.  At the end of the profile we hear another track from that album titled Magnolia.  All the music being played through the profile is also from that album The profile was produced by Mick Paddon, from an interview with Najde at the 2021 Sydney Conservatorium Jazz Festival. It was first broadcast on the 8th July 2021 on his weekly radio show on Eastside , Time and Space, which airs from 12 midday to 14.00. This podcast is the most recent in a series called Changing the Face of Jazz.  Mick has been producing these profiles of female jazz instrumentalists who have come to prominence in recent years, as a follow on to his radio documentary, Music Has No Gender.  They are musicians who are changing the way we see jazz, even if not the way we hear the music

Sydney based jazz guitarist Hilary Geddes is the most recent recipient of the prestigious Jann Rutherford Award. Established in 2005 with active involvement from Sandy Evans, the Award provides support to young female jazz musicians in the early stages of their professional careers. Eastside’s Mick Paddon has recorded a detailed interview with Hilary. They discussed her […]

The catholics have been performing and recording for almost 29 years. Founder and band leader, Lloyd Swanton came into the Eastside Studios to talk with Mick Paddon from Time and Space about the band, its music and the upcoming gig on July 26th at Foundry 616 . Lloyd, until fairly recently a long time presenter […]

Don Was and Justin Seltzer at Eastside The President of Blue Note records, Don Was, has been in Sydney as part of his world tour celebrating the 80th birthday of this iconic jazz label. With Blue Note’s Vice President Justin Seltzer, he joined Mick Paddon in the Eastside studios during Time and Space. Don Was […]

In this episode of PEN Voices, Bangladeshi poet and journalist Humayun Reza speaks about the challenges some writers face in Australia.Produced by Mick Paddon and Humayun Reza of Eastside Radio.Supervising production by Sharon Davis.For more information about PEN International go herehttps://pen.org.au/collections/membership

Finding Voice is a 25 minute documentary produced by Eastside’s Mick Paddon together with Bangladeshi poet, writer and journalist Humayun Reza “When I first met Humayun Reza, all I knew about him was that he was from Bangladesh and was seeking asylum in Australia with his wife and two daughters. He is a quiet and […]

In Finding Voice, Bangladeshi poet and journalist Humayun Reza speaks about the challenges some writers face in Australia. Produced by Mick Paddon of Eastside FM. Supervising production by Sharon Davis. Discover more at the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) website.

Music Has No Gender is a new 37 minute documentary produced, written and recorded by Eastside Radio’s Mick Paddon from Thursday Drive. Its starting point is that while music doesn’t have a gender, musicians do. Sandy Evans, who has been described as a national treasure and awarded an Order of Australia for her contributions to […]

2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowship Award winner Emma Stephenson has been living and working in New York for the past eight months. She was briefly back in Sydney in April to attend a couple of weddings which gave Mick Paddon, presenter of Time and Space a chance to catch up with her to ask about how […]

Andrea Keller is a pianist, composer and educator who has won just about every jazz award available in Australia- three ARIA Awards, five Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Awards, two Art Music Awards, an APRA Professional Development Award, and fellowships from the Freedman Foundation and the Australia Council. She has performs in every format from solo piano […]