The Monthly Jazz Rag
THE HERVEY BAY JAZZ RAG
THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF
THE HERVEY BAY JAZZ CLUB INC
P.O.BOX 5236 TORQUAY, HERVEY BAY, QUEENSLAND 4655
Website: www. herveybayjazzclub.org.au
VOLUME No 4 ISSUE No9 SEPTEMBER 2008.
President : Allan Risk 4125 4091 Secretary : Michele Collison 0417 929 514
Address all mail to the above mail address
PRESIDENT AL's COLUMN
Hi there Jazz lovers.
Well we now have had our Annual General Meeting (AGM) and all went very well
- We had a good roll-up of 37 with some new faces and a return of all other members
of the Committee. We have a new Secretary Michele Collison, taking up the slack
from Ray Soulsby now Vice President who replaces Bob Carlson who has stepped back
to a committeeman's role. Robyn Bates has taken over as Treasurer from Alan Mullis,
who drops off the Committee to concentrate on his new role as President of Older
Men Unlimited. Some of you may remember Robyn as long-term Treasurer of the Y'gubi
Festival and she is also Treasurer of the Jazz and Blues festival taking place
later this year. I also welcome my wife Sandra who joins the committee to make
her role more formal. She has been participating in the past, as we meet at our
place and her contributions have been most welcome. I have included the full committee
make-up elsewhere in the newsletter.
Our last gig turned out to be another success although we still had a lot of
walk-ins with a final tally of 130.
The Conservatorium musicians were excellent and it was great to see Liam Richards
get another go out front. The two teachers from the Con, John Hoffman (Hoffy)
and Steven Newcomb were most impressed with Liam and are trying to encourage him
to go to the Con when he leaves school. It seems he may have passed his interview
already. I have sent him a good photograph to put in his CV (shown elsewhere ).
The workshop at Urangan High went very well and Hoffy was again most impressed
with the work being done there under the tutelage of Paul Brinkley.
The AGM open forum brought out some good suggestions that the committee will
look into - some social outings to help members intermingle and get to know each
other better, an increase in fees as we have not put them up since our beginning
(suggested $15 for members and $20 for others) and maybe a dance now and then.
The Jazz Festival is coming together and the program firmed up and will be on
the Festival website
www.herveybayjazzandbluesfestival.org soon. You will have seen some editorial in the press already.
The girls are looking into another theme night for November, which, as I have
already indicated, will be a combined gig and Christmas function and our last
for this year.
Well , that's all from me for the moment. See you on 26th September........................Allan
LAST MONTH'S GIG.
A great night of funky jazz from, some very accomplished musicians. Steve Newcomb
was superb on keyboards as was Hoffy on trumpet. The beautiful Georgia Webber
on bass, Richie Daniells showed our drummers some new tricks even for his young
years and Hannah Macklin was irresistible on vocals.
Young Liam had a blow on reeds, which he appreciated and did himself proud and
we should see more of Liam around the Bay in the years ahead as he is developing
into a very fine musician.
THIS MONTH'S GIG
Another change of style, featuring
"The Trio's Quartet" from Bundaberg.
We have Stuart Wadham on keyboards, Andrew Lye on bass, Bob Smith on drums and
Clem Soppa on reeds and trumpet.
Should be a great night of live "Jazz in the Auditorium", so book now at the
Boat Club on 4128 9643.
All the usual features apply such as members draw, raffle and lucky door prize.
7.30 start.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
This meeting was held on 9th September as advised to our members and was held
in the lovely Fraser Room at the Boat Club.
We had 37 in attendance as per the register and numerous apologies were noted.
President Al gave a summarised report on the year 2007/08 and it has been circulated
to all members. He included thanks t his committee for their efforts for the
year and a welcome to the new faces.
With only one nomination for each position except Secretary the following Executive
and Committee for 2008/09 were elected:
President Allan Risk
Vice President Ray Soulsby
Secretary Michele Collison
Treasurer Robyn Bates
Committee Jan Carlson
" Lorraine Soulsby
" Sandra Risk
" Bob Carlson
" Michael Knight
" Steve Wright
The nomination for Secretary was taken from the floor.
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