Andrew Lindsay has worked as a journalist with The National Times newspaper, studied theatre with Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and was a founding director of Red Weather, a Sydney-based theatre company, whose first work was hailed by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘a perfection’. His first novel, The Breadmaker’s Carnival, became a best-seller and won the Jim Hamilton Award. His second novel, The Slapping Man, was shortlisted for the FAW Victoria Christina Stead Award. He was joint winner of the 2008 Peter Blazey Fellowship for his work in progress The God Of Morphine. Andrew has had a Verbatim piece about the music scene around High Street, Northcote in Melbourne published in Issue 2 of extempore. His prize winning piece The Fearless Note will appear in Issue 3.
Peter Mitchell, whose piece The Certainty of Risk won second prize in this year’s competition, says that his work should speak for itself and declined to provide a bio. You can read his essay in Issue 4 of extempore, due out in May 2010
Paul Pax Andrews settled in Perth in 2001. An internationally acclaimed saxophonist and educator, who first appeared on the Sydney jazz-scene in 1977. He studied jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium and saxophones with Howie Smith, Col Loughnan, Joe Allard and Roger Frampton. His performances include the Monterey Jazz Festival, Expo ‘86 Japan, The World Saxophone Congress Chicago and six years with the Australian Saxophone Quartet. His Jazz WA profile is visible at www.jazzwa.com/directory/artists.php?ArtistID=100 Pax has had a piece about Joe Lane published in Issue 2 of extempore and his prize winning piece The Scene… Sydney, way back then will appear in Issue 4, due out in May 2010
Roger Mitchell first reviewed music for the Tehran Journal in Iran, where he upset one musically trained tourist by describing a pianist’s performance as “technically proficient, but lacking heart”. A journalist who sabotaged his career early for full-time study and travel, he has been a Murdoch sub-editor for long enough to lose his hair. He blames Kenny Weir for introducing him to wild, wonderful improvised music and Peter Knight for awakening his love of trumpet. He regularly reviews albums and writes about jazz for the Sunday Herald Sun and Herald Sun newspapers, and less frequently than he should at ausjazz.net Roger, by coincidence, provided the CD essay and Q&A in Issue 3 of extempore. His award-winning piece Facing the music - the critic under review will appear in the same issue.
