NOMINATION: Work of the Year - Jazz
For an original Jazz work of any instrumentation, including improvisatory composition.
A work is defined as a single complete musical composition, or expression. This includes music with movements or sub-works (i.e. song cycles), installations, and real-time compositions (improvised music).
If you believe your work to be nominated in the wrong category or the details of your nomination to be incorrect, please contact the AMC via email at awards@australianmusiccentre.com.au before proceeding with the nomination.
Anthony Norris is a composer who pushes the boundaries of both genre and content. His compositions express the now in an urgent way that pull you up short and remind you of what it is to be human. Its Jazz you can dance to. The origin of jazz before it got way too institutional. Jazz with purpose. Meaning not just some blaahhbop to show off.