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Don Burrows

Donald Vernon Burrows, AO

Order of Australia

The Order of Australia is an Order established by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Australia on 14 February 1975 "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"....
, MBE (born 8 August 1928 in Sydney

Sydney

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, Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
) is an Australian jazz

Australian jazz

Jazz music has a long history in Australia. Over the years jazz has held a high profile at local clubs, festivals and other music venues and a vast number of recordings have been produced by Australian jazz musicians, many of whom have gone on to gain a high profile in the international jazz arena....
and swing

Swing (genre)

Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States....
musician

Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
, playing the clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
, saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
, and flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike other woodwind instruments, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air against an edge....
. His best-known group is the Don Burrows Quartet: Don Burrows (multiple woodwind), George Golla

George Golla

George Golla is an Australian jazz guitarist. Born in Chorz?w, Poland he emigrated to Australia in the 1950s and began working in Sydney from 1957....
(guitar), Ed Gaston (bass) and Alan Turnbull (drums). Burrows has played with world-renowned musicians such as Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
, Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
and Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
, Oscar Peterson

Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
, James Morrison

James Morrison (musician)

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
, the Sydney Symphony, Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli

St?phane Grappelli was a French people jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first of all-string jazz bands....
, and Cleo Laine

Cleo Laine

Dame Cleo Laine Order of British Empire is a jazz singer and an actor, noted for her scat singing.She is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular music and European classical music categories....
.

Biography
1973 was a watershed year for Burrows in which he received the first gold record won by an Australian jazz musician for his record Just the Beginning; instigated the first jazz studies program in the southern hemisphere at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia. Located adjacent to the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens, the Con incorporates a faculty of the University of Sydney, the community-based Conservatorium Open Academy and the Conservatorium High School....
and was awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

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Donald Vernon Burrows, AO

Order of Australia

Sydney

Australia

Australian jazz

Swing (genre)

Musician

Clarinet

Saxophone

Flute

George Golla

Frank Sinatra

Dizzy Gillespie

Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
, Oscar Peterson

Oscar Peterson

James Morrison (musician)

Tony Bennett

Stéphane Grappelli

Cleo Laine

Biography

1973 was a watershed year for Burrows in which he received the first gold record won by an Australian jazz musician for his record Just the Beginning; instigated the first jazz studies program in the southern hemisphere at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland, It is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva....
in 1972 and later the Newport Jazz Festival

Newport Jazz Festival

The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It was established in 1954 by the jazz impresario George Wein, prompted by socialite Elaine Lorillard, whose wealthy husband helped finance the festival's startup....
.

He has performed to normally classical music audiences through tours with Musica Viva and Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as the ABC, is Australia's national Public broadcasting.With a budget of Australian dollar840 million annually, the corporation provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, as well as overseas through the Australia Net...
concert series.

Burrows fronted the nationally televised show The Don Burrows Collection for six years. He has an extensive recording career in his own right with his groups, and has performed on many more albums with other artists.

In the 1980s, he associated closely with the then young James Morrison

James Morrison (musician)

James Morrison Order of Australia is an Australian jazz musician who plays numerous instruments, but is best known for his trumpet playing. He is a multi-instrumentalist, having performed on the trombone, euphonium, saxophone, flugelhorn, tuba, and piano....
.

In the 2000s, Burrow's public profile has receded somewhat as he performs less than he used to.

In 2005 he toured with a small band including renowned Australian jazz pianist Kevin Hunt, Burrows is using his photographic images with his music, in a show called Stop, Look and Listen.

Awards

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), 1973
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 1987
Life member of the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, 1988
Inducted into the ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards

The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Record Industry Association ....
Hall of Fame, 1991
Named one of the Australian Living Treasures
Australian Living Treasures

Australian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia. The first list of 100 Living Treasures was published in 1997....
, 1989, 1999
Sir Bernard Heinze
Bernard Heinze

Sir Bernard Thomas Heinze, Order of Australia was an Australian Professor of Music, conductor and Director of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music....
Award, for his service to Australia, 2000
Honorary Doctorate
Doctorate

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in Music, Sydney University, 2000
Honorary Doctorate in Music, Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University

Edith Cowan University is located in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia. It is the only Australian university named after a woman, Edith Cowan, who was the first woman to be elected to an Parliaments of the Australian states and territories....
, Perth
Perth, Western Australia

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, 2001
Honorary Doctorate in Education, Central Queensland University
Central Queensland University

CQUniversity is Australian public university based in Queensland. Its main campus in Rockhampton, Queensland Queensland, but it has operations throughout Asia-Pacific....
, 2004
Queen Elizabeth Jubilee medal
Inducted into the Australian jazz
Australian jazz

Jazz music has a long history in Australia. Over the years jazz has held a high profile at local clubs, festivals and other music venues and a vast number of recordings have been produced by Australian jazz musicians, many of whom have gone on to gain a high profile in the international jazz arena....
Bell Awards Hall of Fame, 2007

Social matters and interests

Burrows lives in Paynesville

Paynesville, Victoria

Paynesville is a tourist/holiday resort town in the Gippsland region of Victoria , Australia. At the 2006 Census in Australia, Paynesville had a population of 2967....
on the Gippsland Lakes

Gippsland Lakes

The Gippsland Lakes are a network of lakes, marshes and lagoons in east Gippsland, Victoria , Australia covering an area of about 600 km sq, The largest of the lakes are Lake Wellington , Lake King and Lake Victoria....
of Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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.

He has had a lifelong hobby of black and white photography

Photography

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
, beginning in his 20s as an active participant in the Sans Souci

Sans Souci, New South Wales

Sans Souci is a Southern Sydney Sydney suburb in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sans Souci is 17 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and lies across the Local Government Areas in Australias of the City of Rockdale and the Municipality of Kogarah....
and Caringbah

Caringbah, New South Wales

Caringbah is a suburb, in Southern Sydney Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Caringbah is located 24 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the Local Government Areas in Australia of Sutherland Shire....
camera

Camera

A camera is a device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. The term comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism of projecting images where an entire room functioned as a real-time imaging system; the modern camera evolved from the camera obscura....
clubs in Sydney. He sees the creativity of music and photography having significant similarities. He is also an avid fly fisherman.

Burrows has suffered from arthritis

Arthritis

Arthritis is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body. Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in people older than fifty-five years....
since age 38. In a 2008 interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Andrew Ford

Andrew Ford is an England and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.He was Composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra , held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts for 2005?2006....
, celebrating his 80th birthday, he said "arthritis is not the greatest for playing a musical instrument. But playing a musical instrument is very, very good for arthritis"