Brisbane Vocal Jazz Festival 2017

Overview

When the first-ever feature-length film with synchronised music, singing and speech made its way to cinemas 90 years ago, it told the tale of a fictional jazz singer. It was called The Jazz Singer, in fact. The movie made history for a whole heap of reasons, and it likely inspired plenty of jazz-crooning musicians to try their hand as well — such as the folks belting out tunes at the Brisbane Vocal Jazz Festival, for example.

From August 3 to 8, a chorus of stellar jazz voices will be singing up a storm like they're the subjects of a film, with local, national and international talent descending upon the Brisbane Jazz Club for the festival's second year. Their croon-tastic celebration starts with a jam night, soars into a compilation of big screen jazz standards called Jazz at the Movies (fittingly enough), and includes everything from workshops to love songs to harmonies, before ending with an ode to Ella Fitzgerald to mark what would've been her 100th year.