Bassist Jess Dunn Makes Jazz in Australia

Bass player Jess Dunn (pictured) is the featured musician in Changing the Face of Jazz broadcast as part of Jazz Made in Australia on January 30th. Jess says of herself that she came to playing music fairly late, by which she means her late teens. She progressed from a hand-me-down electric base to a stand-up acoustic one and then developed a taste for jazz. She graduated through the SIMA Young Women’s Jazz Workshops to the Sydney Conservatorium, winning the Jann Rutherford Award, with Harri Harding, along the way. Harri and Jess won the award to set up the all women’s Sirens Big Band which has been performing now for over seven years and includes some of Sydney’s best know young female jazz instrumentalists. This profile of Jess is accompanied by music from the Sirens, which Jess still leads, taken from a live recording and from their CD, Kali and the Time of Change
You can hear the full profile of Jess with the music from the Sirens in this podcast