JMI's 1-year Diploma of Music in Jazz Performance is now a CRICOS-approved course, meaning it can now be offered to international students studying on a student visa. The Diploma program...
The Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) have released the 2018 Student Experience Survey (SES) National Report and results. For the 3rd year in a row, JMI has been rated...
Multi-grammy award winner, Artistic and Managing Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and internationally-renowned and revered jazz musician, Wynton Marsalis, has recommended JMI as the...
Blues Phraseology in Jazz by Steve Russell, piano lecturer at JMI This is the second in a series of articles aimed at developing a better understanding of the nature of blues phraseology...
Blues Phraseology in Jazz by Steve Russell, piano lecturer at JMI This is the first in a series of articles aimed at developing a better understanding of the nature of blues phraseology...
JMI will be running its famed Summer Jazz Clinics in Brisbane and Canberra (thanks to the support of ANU School of Music) in January 2019. The JMI Summer Jazz Clinics are an intensive...
JMI in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) delivered the 3rd Essentially Ellington Down Under Regional Festival throughout August and September this year. The festival is a...
JMI has recently been approved by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) as a CRICOS provider, meaning that we can now offer the Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance...
by Dave Sanders, drum lecturer at JMI Many of the syncopations in Jazz music are created from rhythmic phrases that use groupings of three. These provide a rolling feel that crosses bar...
by Dave Sanders - Drum lecturer at JMI. In this blog series, Dave will look at various aspects of jazz drumming. This blog will focus on playing in odd time. Not all music is in 4/4. It’s...
by Andrew Garton - Jazz Composition lecturer Introduction Charles Mingus’s “The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady” (Mingus, 1963) was recorded and released in 1963 and is one of his most...
JMI has now opened auditions for entry into its accredited music courses for 2019! Auditions are available by appointment from July up until the end of January 2019. In 2019, JMI will be...