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A group of teenage players has been performing two or three times a day during the 74th Australian Jazz Convention, which began in Albury on Boxing Day and ends New Year's Eve.
The Victorian Jazz Workshop Band comprises 12 young Melbourne musicians who practise weekly for three months to learn more about a genre older than rock and roll.
For 19 years, Marina Pollard, 82, has been convening workshops for players aged 13 to 23 years, with some former students now teaching or playing jazz all over the world.
"I don't have a minimum requirement, if they love jazz and they want to be part of it, they can come in," she said.
Trumpeter Charlie Victoria, 16, said she "gave it a shot and I've loved jazz ever since".
"It brings out a feeling in the listeners, it brings out a feeling in the musicians that are playing it," she said.
"It makes everybody feel good and it's something that you can all relate to and discuss."
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Charlie announced the items when the Victorian Jazz Workshop Band played to an appreciative audience on Saturday morning at The Circuit Sports Cafe in Dean Street.
The ensemble worked well together, moving between the solos easily and co-ordinating entries and endings.
Mrs Pollard, a committee member of the Australian Jazz Museum in Wantirna, is not a performer herself.
"I'm not a jazz player, I'm a groupie," she laughed.
Two workshop tutors introduce the young players to traditional jazz and help develop their improvisation skills, rather than relying solely on the printed music.
"We gradually get them away from that but it takes a long while," Mrs Pollard said.
The convener felt "such pride" in her charges.
"I'm like their grandmother; my own grandson started me off 19 years ago and he's now playing in his own band," Mrs Pollard said.
And there was no doubt about the importance of initiating youngsters into the world of jazz.
"Because it will die if we don't," she said.