Jessie Tu talks with Tessie Overmyer and Hannah James about playing Charles Mingus's music as part of a nine-piece band at the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival.

These players in Pharos understood the key to playing great jazz: an invulnerable attachment to the spirit of the music, and the ceaseless tenacity to explore the full range of human dynamics through intuitive collaboration.

After a winter spent locked down in Sydney, guitarist Hilary Geddes is itching to get back to playing gigs again – starting with the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival this weekend.

With international borders still closed, the festival is celebrating the diversity of the local scene in its tenth year.

Sydney-based guitarist Hilary Geddes has been awarded the 2021 Freedman Jazz Fellowship.

Jeremy Rose talks jazz in the time of corona, the resilience of musos and showcasing the best of the local scene at the Earshift Music Festival.

Three of the four finalists for this year's Freedman Jazz Fellowship are women, while the styles of all four are markedly different – which is a boon for Australian jazz.

A commissioned work focusing on the importance of water and waterways flows neatly into a band set from award-winning guitarist Hilary Geddes.