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Scope
This not-for-profit
Incorporated Association was established to:
Collect, exhibit, preserve
and store on a permanent basis all material and
memorabilia of whatever nature pertaining to jazz
music, performed and/or composed by Australian
musicians, covering the period from the 1920's
through to the present day.
Collect and store recordings
of jazz produced outside Australia, to be used as a
reference source.
History
Victorian Jazz Archive had its
genesis in a meeting held in Sydney on June 23,
1996. A comprehensive summary of events and
activities from then to the present day may be found
here
Collection
Policy
The archive is, of course, at the
core of Victorian Jazz Archive activities, and the
principles that govern its collection and
conservation are explained in some detail
here
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Our assistant sound engineer
Bill Brown at work in the Don Boardman Sound
Recording Room at the Archive |
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Activities
The
Victorian Jazz Archive Inc. (VJA) was formed in
October 1996 - specifically to preserve all forms of
Australian jazz music and associated memorabilia.
VJA is recognised by the National Film and Sound
Archive of Australia (NFSA) as being part of the
national distributed collection of audio-visual
material, and is also a member of the Australian
Jazz Archive National Council (AJANC).
Part of
the Archive's Charter is to provide access to its
material to the general public, music students and
researchers. This is achieved mostly by the
digitisation of sound resources and the photographic
collection wherever possible - depending on the
condition of the material.
The prime focus of the Archive
is to identify, collect, document, and exhibit all
types of Australian Jazz recordings, musical
instruments, videos, photographs, publications, and
historical memorabilia.
Details of the Collection are being constantly added
to a central
local-community database accessible on the World
Wide Web.
In addition, the charter of the
VJA allows for the collection of overseas material
for use and study in the Archive's reference
library.
A 'Senior Jazz Workshop' at the Archive
Awards
The Archive received two awards
in 2000 for the program entitled "Acetate Action"
where a concerted effort to transfer ageing acetate
discs to a digital form was successful, and is
ongoing. The first was the National Australia Bank
Community Link Award for Conservation, whilst the
second was the Museums Australia Award for
Conservation and Heritage.
In November 2005, the Archive won the
Knox Pride Award for Preservation and Conservation
organised by the Knox City Council and sponsored by
the Bendigo Bank. The Archive won the overall title
against seven other winners of all categories on the
night.
Individual Awards have been
given to our immediate past General Manager, John
Kennedy. In 2002 John was awarded the "Volunteer Of
The Year in the Museum Industry" by Museums
Australia, and in January 2004, he was awarded an
Order of Australia Medal for "the preservation of
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