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Jamie Oehlers

Jamie Oehlers is one of Australia’s leading jazz artists and saxophonists. In 2003 Jamie was the winner of the World Saxophone Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and has won numerous awards in Australia, including an Australian Jazz “Bell” Award for Best Australian Jazz Artist and three for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, an ABC Limelight Award for Best Jazz CD Release, an Australian Young Achiever of the Year Award, and has twice been a finalist in the ARIA awards for Best Jazz Album. He has performed throughout the world including major festivals like the JVC Jazz Festival in New York, BBC London Jazz Festival, Jazz Yatra in India, Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Edinburgh Jazz Festival, Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival in Rome, Galway Jazz festival, Brecon Jazz Festival, and comprehensively throughout Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Jamie has collaborated with many great international jazz artists within Australia and overseas including performances and recordings with Ari Hoenig, Aaron Goldberg, George Garzone, Charlie Haden, Eric Harland, Reuben Rogers, Rufus Reid, Geri Allen, Cindy Blackman, Jamie Cullum, Bob Hurst, Megan Washington, Kate Ceberano and many more. He has released 13 CDs as a leader, including his most recent recordings, "Between the Lines of Stillness", "Night Music", “Innocent Dreamer” (with Tal Cohen), “The Burden of Memory” (with Paul Grabowsky, Eric Harland and Reuben Rogers), and “Smoke and Mirrors” (with Ari Hoenig). As a sideman, Jamie has recorded on another 100+ recordings.

Awards

Winner of the 2003 White Foundation World Saxophone Competition

Winner of the 2010 Limelight Award for Best Jazz Release

Winner of 2009 Bell Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album Release "Lost and Found"

Winner of 2007 Bell Award for Australian Jazz Musician of the Year

Winner of 2007 Bell Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Cd Release "You R Here" Vol 2

Winner of 2006 Bell Award for Best Contemporary Jazz CD Release "Assemblers"

Winner of James Morrison Scholarship

Western Australian Music Award for National/International Achievement

Final Nominee for Best Jazz Release, ARIA Awards 1998 and 2005

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Selmer Balanced Action Tenor

D'Addario Reeds

Otto Link Mouthpiece

Vanessa Perica: The Eye is the First Circle

Read "The Eye is the First Circle" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
May 27, 2024

Il secondo album della compositrice e bandleader australiana Vanessa Perica, conferma le aspettative suscitate dall'impressionante debutto del 2020 Love Is a Temporary Madness che le ha portato numerosi riconoscimenti in patria e all'estero, con recensioni superlative della massime riviste specializzate. Entro le coordinate espressive del modern mainstream orchestrale, Vanessa mostra una scrittura avvincente, che alterna momenti ritmicamente trascinanti a sequenze d'ampio respiro, timbricamente ricercate. Entro smaglianti orchestrazioni ricche di trascinanti riff, lunghi pedali e scontri di sezioni, i ...

Album Review

Vanessa Perica Orchestra: The Eye is the First Circle

Read "The Eye is the First Circle" reviewed by Barry O'Sullivan

by Barry O'Sullivan
December 1, 2023

The music on The Eye is the First Circle is undeniably outstandingly composed and arranged by Vanessa Perica. Her second outing--following Love is A Temporary Madness (Self released, 2020)--with another supersonic ensemble, it was superbly recorded at the Sing Sing East Studios in Melbourne, showcasing numerous flawlessly performed solos by some of Australia's best improvising musicians. The bandleader, composer and arranger has created explosively expressionistic charts which would bring out the best in any orchestra. Perica utilises the chosen voices ...

Album Review

Vanessa Perica Orchestra: The Eye is the First Circle

Read "The Eye is the First Circle" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 25, 2023

In a review of Love Is a Temporary Madness, the debut recording by Australian composer/arranger Vanessa Perica, the observation was made that “Perica's impact in the realm of big-band jazz should be anything but temporary." Perica's second album, The Eye Is the First Circle, has added an exclamation point to that assertion. Again, each of the album's seven numbers was written and arranged by Perica. And again, she has shown that she deserves to be in the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Australian Jazz Fusion In The Spotlight 2000-2010

by Len Davis
August 28, 2022

Australian jazz fusion with guitarist Glenn Cannon, drummer Sam Aliano, saxophonist Jamie Oehlers, guitarist Jack Pantazis and Melbourne band Logic. Playlist Glenn Cannon “Cave of the Forgotten" from Clockwork (Self Produced) 00:00 Sam Aliano “Blue Skies On Mars" from Emalgamation (Vorticity) 07:37 EQ “Drop D Jazz" from EQ (Vorticity) 15:29 Jamie Oehlers “Side Car" from You Are Here Session 1 (Jazz Head) 23:06 Jack Pantazis “I'm Outta Here" from With The Little We Have (Self Produced) 30:56 Steve ...

Album Review

Vanessa Perica: Love is a Temporary Madness

Read "Love is a Temporary Madness" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 28, 2020

Even as the year 2020 has slid ignobly into the dustbin of history, music-lovers have been buoyed by a number of encouraging signs that the future of big-band jazz is in capable hands. While splendid recordings by old hands Mike Barone, Steve Spiegl, Mark Masters and Maria Schneider have helped keep the flame burning brightly, their customary artistry has been rivaled if not surpassed this year by relative newcomers such as Jeremy Levy, Seth Weaver, Lisa Maxwell, Jon Schapiro, Dennis ...

Album Review

Vanessa Perica Orchestra: Love is a Temporary Madness

Read "Love is a Temporary Madness" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 15, 2020

Da Melbourne ci giunge quest'impressionante debutto orchestrale di Vanessa Perica, bandleader e compositrice che guida una formazione con i migliori jazzmen australiani di nuova generazione. Anche se geograficamente distante dal nostro emisfero, il jazz prodotto in Australia e Nuova Zelanda ha sempre mantenuto connessioni con le tendenze e le espressioni nate negli Stati Uniti, esprimendo notevoli musicisti come i pianisti Mike Nock e Chris Abrahams, i batteristi Tony Buck e Ben Vanderwal, il chitarrista Tony Barnard, il ...

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Jamie Oehlers' Double Drummer Group: You R Here

Read "You R Here" reviewed by Bev Stapleton

by Bev Stapleton
February 1, 2007

After years of neglect, it would seem as if the electric jazz of the 1970s is finally coming back into favour. With direct explorations of the Miles Davis legacy by Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith and Finland's UMO Jazz Orchestra, plus the creation of new music in this style by Wallace Roney, Dave Douglas and Uri Caine, the rejection of electricity by the neo-conservatives of the '80s has finally been pushed aside, opening up once-forbidden areas for fresh exploration. ...

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Contest

Announcing the Winners of the Jazzhead Records "Oehlers/Grabowsky/Beck - Lost and Found" Giveaway!

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2009

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Contest

Enter the Jazzhead Records "Oehlers / Grabowsky / Beck - Lost and Found" Giveaway Contest

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2009

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Jazzhead Records “Oehlers/Grabowsky/Beck - Lost and Found“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on July 19th. Click here to enter the contest

(Following Jamie Oehlers at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! Your Friends at Jazzhead Records

About Lost and Found Lost and Found is a collaboration between three of Australia's finest improvisers, multi award-winning saxophonist ...
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“Oehlers can match his ability to think on his feet at speed over sustained choruses with a touch on ballads that contrasts his up-tempo assertiveness with vulnerability and tenderness”- Rob Adams, Scottish Herald
 

“He seemed to be his own accompanying trio, dazzling was the alteration between his melodic lines and the phrases that built up the supporting harmonies”- Alyn Shipton, BBC Jazz presenter at the World Saxophone Competition.

“a combination of strength and sensitivity”- Jessica Nicholas, The Age
  “a creative, powerful and sensitive musician, with stories to tell”- Jim Mcleod, 24