Australian saxophonist Jamie Oehlers was the winner of the 2003 World Saxophone Competition, held at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland; in 2007 was named Jazz Artist of the Year at the Australian Jazz Awards; was winner of the Bell Award for Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Release in both 2006 (Assemblers) and 2007 (You R Here: Session 2) and has been a final nominee for the Australian Recording Industry Awards for Best Jazz Release.
Jamie has performed at the London Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Galway Arts Festival, World Expo in Japan, Manila Jazz Festival, and in the United States, Europe, UK, Asia, India, New Zealand and throughout Australia with leading international jazz artists like Geri Allen, Robert Hurst, Eric Harland, Ronnie Scott, Cindy Blackman, Peter Leitch, John and Jeff Clayton, Curtis Lundy, Kate Ceberano, Eddie Marshal, Dale Barlow, Bobby Shew, Renee Geyer, Barney Mcall, Paul Grabowsky, Joe Chindamo, Scott Tinkler, Bernie McGann and James Morrison.
Jamie has studied at Berklee College of Music, in Boston and also under some of the worlds finest jazz musicians in New York, including Dave Liebman, George Coleman and George Garzone. Jamie is a saxophone tutor at the Victorian College of the Arts and Monash University in Victoria, and has held saxophone and improvisation workshops throughout Australia and New Zealand.
He has released 8 CDs under his leadership including the Aria nominated "Lost and Found" Oehlers/Grabowsky/Beck, "Strut" and "Grace", "You R Here Vol 1 & 2", "Velocity", "The Assemblers" and "Blowfish featuring Alison Wedding".
All of my CD's are available for purchase on Amazon and itunes, but I suggest you buy from www.jazzhead.com.au The price will be much cheaper if you order from Australia (amazon UK sell the cd for 18pound, you will get it from jazzhead for 13pound)
Hi jamie, thanks so much for the add. I LOVE your default pic btw ;) would make an awesome background on my myspace page :D hehe. I really liked 'just out of reach' too. interesting textures and contrasts. enjoyed them all. take care... shelli:)
Thanks so much for the add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends!
We hope you and your friends enjoy our music, too. We've just added four new compositions and two new blogs about Umano.
We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy.
It also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.
We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.
What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
Thanks for the add Jazz catt!! I was checking your gig at the Sound Lounge the other day and I really enjoyed it. It didn't sound like you guys had played together for a while but the music got to some really great places!
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