Brisbane’s Valley Jazzfest live picture

Originally uploaded by Brisbane Is Home.

The quintet is getting ready to play at the rotunda in the Brunswick Street Mall in Fortitude Valley, they will start in just a few minutes, at 1pm.

UPDATE: Click here for 6 hi-quality photos of the quintet playing, with a link to a photoset on flickr with more pictures

Photo of the jazz quintet sent in live from the Festival here.

And here’s a photo of the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra setting up.

Click here for a recording of music from Melissa Western’s ‘minx’ Quintet.

And click here for a recording of the Brisbane Contemporary Jazz Orchestra playing.

ORIGNAL STORY: The Valley Jazz Festival has been on for the last few days, and it’s finishing today. I’m just about to head in to see Melissa Western’s ‘minx’ Quintet (1pm) and the Brisbane Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (2pm) play for free at the Rotunda in the Brunswick St Mall, Fortitude Valley. (Click here to see exactly where the Rotunda is).

There’s still plenty of jazz left this afternoon and this evening - click here to see a pdf file of the program, or you can click here to go to the Festival’s website to see the program there.

I’ll be taking some hi-quality photos, and also sending in some live cameraphone shots and sound recordings of the two bands I’ll be seeing at the Rotunda - so if you can’t make it out, stay tuned to Brisbane Is Home for the next few hours.

Brisbane blog Larvatus Prodeo has kept an eye on the Festival this week, with stories about it here and here.

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After grabbing some shots of the RE/MAX hot air-balloon above Brisbane yesterday, I just now saw the Holden Blimp in the sky. 

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I arrived at Anzac Square on the special train at about 4am. This is what the Shrine of Remembrance looked like - the granite near the camera makes up the banister of the steps leading down to Anzac Square from the Shrine.

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6.40 AM, and the RE/MAX hot-air balloon is flying again over Brisbane.

RE/MAX is a real estate chain, and this balloon must be the best way ever of getting free advertising.

Keep reading for four more photos. As usual, click on the photos to get taken to where they are stored at flickr, where you can download them for your own use (you need to credit Brisbane Is Home) or see them in much larger sizes.

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