Hobart Jazz Club
Established in the 1940s, Hobart Jazz Club has promoted jazz for more than 70 years.
Club website ↗Jazz heritage
Jazz history
Tasmania’s jazz story stretches across generations of players, clubs, regional gatherings and memorable festivals.
East Coast heritage
Suncoast Jazz Festival
The first Suncoast Jazz Festival was held in St Helens in 1984. The Suncoast Jazz Club formed in 1992 and historically administered the festival. The event won recognition at the 1997 Tasmanian Tourism Awards.
This history is documented by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in the Tasmanian Year Book 2000. Present-day festival activity remains to be established.
Read the historical source ↗Local clubs and regional festivals have kept jazz alive well beyond the capital.
Deloraine Jazz Club
Archival evidence records Deloraine Jazz Club newsletters from 1999–2002. Its contemporary status is unconfirmed.
Museum resources ↗Share Tasmania’s jazz stories
Old programs, club newsletters, photographs and personal memories can help document a rich musical history.
Get in touch →Tasmanian jazz festival photo galleries
Browse published festival and musician photographs at their original sources. These galleries remain with their copyright holders; permission should be obtained before copying photographs to Jazz Tasmania.
Hot August Jazz ↗Hobart Jazz Club’s published gallery; photographers credited by the club.Devonport Jazz ↗Devonport City Council’s official festival photographs and program.Clarence Jazz Festival ↗Clarence City Council / Rosny Farm festival imagery and artist profiles.Clarence Jazz Festival 2021 ↗Craig Opie’s credited photographs, published by Gaia Discovery; photographer requests contact for reuse.Tasmanian jazz performer gallery ↗Evan Carydakis’s performance photography, including Devonport Jazz 2014; media use is by request.
Photo attributions are shown with the licensed photograph above and on the original festival gallery pages. Linking does not imply permission to republish their images.