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Judy Bailey
Birth nameJudith Mary Bailey
Born (1935-10-03) 3 October 1935 (age 89)
Auckland, New Zealand
GenresJazz, soundtrack, children's music, third stream
Occupation(s)Musician, Composer, Arranger, Director and Lecturer
InstrumentPiano
WebsiteOfficial website

Dr Judith Mary Bailey OAM (born 3 October 1935[1]) is a New Zealand-born pianist, jazz musician and composer who has lived in Australia since 1960.

Music career

Bailey was born in Auckland and raised in Whangarei, a town in the north of New Zealand. As a young child she learned ballet, followed by piano and theory when she was 10 years old. She graduated from Trinity College London when she was 16.

Bailey moved to Australia in 1960,[2] spending most of her time in Sydney.[3] She performed live on TV, live music venues such as the legendary El Rocco and on many recordings.[2]

Bailey is a senior lecturer in jazz composition and jazz piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music[2] of which she commenced in 1973 and is also musical director of the Sydney Youth Jazz Ensemble (Jazz Connection).[4]

In 1973, Bailey became the pianist on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation children's radio show Kindergarten, which often featured presenters from Play School, notably Barbara Frawley, Alister Smart, Don Spencer and Geoff Ayling.[5]

In 2017, rapper Rick Ross with producer Bink sampled Bailey's Colour of My Dreams from the Judy Bailey Quartet album Colours. The sample was used on Ross' track Santorini Greece from the album Rather You Than Me.[6]

Awards

Discography

  • 1964 You & The Night & The Music
  • 1965 My Favourite Things
  • 1973 One Moment
  • 1976 Colours
  • 1978 Solo
  • 1991 Notwithstanding
  • 1993 Sundial
  • 2005 The Spritely Ones
  • 2016 You & the Night & the Music (re-release)[1]
  • 2011 Jazz Legends: Judy Bailey[10]

Works

Selected works[11] include:

  • Rag number 2 (1976) for flexible instrumentation
  • Sunday sequence (1998) for solo piano
  • The Spritely ones (1998) for solo piano
  • Four reasons (2000) for jazz soloist and orchestra
  • You can take it anywhere (2000) for flexible instrumentation
  • Unity (2002) for orchestra and soloists
  • Two minds, one music (2005) for symphony orchestra and jazz orchestra
  • So many rivers (2010) for piano trio
  • Contrasts (2013) for big band

References

  1. ^ a b Chadbourne, Eugene. "Judy Bailey | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Judy Bailey : Represented Artist Profile : Australian Music Centre". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
  3. ^ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Judy Bailey | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  4. ^ "SOUNZ - NZ composer - Judy Bailey". Sounz. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
  5. ^ "Judy Bailey". ABC. 6 May 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Home Cooked". Jazz. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  7. ^ a b c "Judy Bailey Graeme Bell Hall of Fame Jazz Australia". Jazz Australia. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
  8. ^ "Staff Detail". music.sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
  9. ^ "Judy Bailey honoured with the Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award". The Melbourne Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  10. ^ "jazz legends judy bailey - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  11. ^ "Search : Australian Music Centre". www.australianmusiccentre.com.au. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
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