Jazz venues for cold nights. “There’s nothing quite like some jazzy tunes to get you grooving, and to warm your bones on a chilly winter night,” says Where To Tonight. “So as the temperatures plummet, you can bet that all those bars with regular jazz gigs are going to get a real workout.”
There are some “wild but brilliant musicians in Melbourne who practise eight hours a day,” writes The Sydney Morning Herald, and “if you could apply their intellect to physics they'd be in Switzerland working in the Hadron collider ... but they've applied it to the saxophone instead …” Here’s some more reference material on Melbourne’s jazz situation:
The seven best jazz bars in town (The Urban List)
Melbourne international jazz festival invites a rebirth of cool (The Australian)
A snapshot of Melbourne’s early jazz scene (Herald Sun)