Dick Hughes (1931 — 2018) was an Australian jazz pianist, singer and journalist.
Hughes earned two
ARIA Award
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...
nominations for
Best Jazz Album, in 1987 for ''The Last Train For Casablanca Leaves Once In A Blue Moon'' and in 2010 alongside his daughter
Christa Hughes
Christa Teresa Hughes is an Australian singer, circus performer and comedian. She utilises wild on-stage antics and a powerful voice. From age 15, she has performed gigs with her father, jazz pianist, journalist and broadcaster, Dick Hughes. At ...
with ''Twenty First Century Blues''. He also contributed a track (with Dick Hughes' Famous Five) to ''
Jazz Live At Soup Plus'' which was nominated for the same award in 1989.
Hughes was born in Melbourne in 1931, the only son of
Richard Hughes, a journalist, and his wife, May Hughes ''née'' Bennett. He developed an interest in jazz early in life and became president of the Melbourne University Rhythm Club in 1950. In 1952 he relocated to London for three years where he started working as a journalist, working for ABC, Frank Packer, News Limited and Fairfax community newspapers before retiring in 2014.
Hughes was a pianist and singer and played regularly around Sydney's jazz scene and played in multiple bands such as
The Port Jackson Jazz Band
The Port Jackson Jazz Band were an Australian Dixieland jazz group formed in 1944 and based in Sydney. They were the longest running traditional jazz band in Australia and performed into the 1990s, though they had multiple breakups.
History
Trom ...
and Ray price Quartet before first performing solo in 1973. He formed Dick Hughes' Famous Five and the released an album, ''Dick Hughes Looks Back & Around'', in 1977.
In 1997 Hughes started presenting a jazz show, ''Speak Easy and Swing Hard'', on
2MBS-FM.
Hughes married Fay in 1962 and together they had three daughters, Vashti,
Christa
Christa may refer to:
* Christa (given name), a female given name
* Janusz Christa (1934-2008), Polish comics author
* ''Swedish Fly Girls'', a 1971 film also known as ''Christa''
* 1015 Christa, an asteroid
See also
* Christ (disambiguation) ...
and Stephanie.
Discography
Albums
Awards and nominations
ARIA Music Awards
The
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...
is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of
Australian music
The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions of ...
. They commenced in 1987.
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1987
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, ''The Last Train For Casablanca Leaves Once In A Blue Moon''
,
Best Jazz Album
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2010
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, ''Twenty First Century Blues''
, Best Jazz Album
,
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References
External links
Biographical cuttings on Dick Hughes, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals— Trove, National Library of Australia
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1931 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Australian musicians
Australian pianists
20th-century Australian journalists
Musicians from Melbourne
People from Brighton, Victoria
Musicians from Sydney