Tour photos
Ben Jones Janet Seidel The band! Kevin Hunt
A tour organised by top Japanese promoter Yoshi Nishikage took place in July. Janet and David worked with a wonderful drummer called Kuniyoshi Yashiro and also the famous clarinetist Eiji Kitamura and young trumpet star Tomonara Hara. Two concerts were with the great swing players Eiji Hanaoka and Tetsu Shimoma.
Janet sang a set in Tokyo with the US saxophonist Scott Hamilton at a new club called JZ Bratz.
Her concerts included 3 major jazz clubs in Tokyo and several large concerts.
Janet and David performed at Club Inoui in Luxembourg in June this year working with a Belgian guitarist called Jacques Piroten. (Click HERE for more detail.)
Janet sang and played at Le Petit Journal de St Michel in Paris and also spent time in the South of France visiting jazz archivist and broadcaster M.Antoine Baldwin.
Janet and David appeared at the Milano Jazz Club as guests of the Milano Jazz Gang in June, 2001.
William Galison joined Janet's quintet for a tour of Nth NSW and Queensland earlier this year. The concerts were a great success with members of the Gold Coast Jazz society voting the 'Love Letters' night as their most succesful and well attended.
The band decided to play Coffs Harbour instead of Bellingrn which turned out to be a mistake. It seems Coffs Harbour is a difficult spot to promote a concert, but the band was sure happy that people came, and particularly people from Bellingen!
Janet performed for two nights in Tokyo at 'Body and Soul' Club in Ginza and the 'Tokyo Club' In Suidobashi (Japan). Both nights were well attended with fans from Janet's CD's.
At the Kobe Jazz Street Festival in Japan, Janet appeared with Bill Berry, Orange Kellen and the Swedish Jazz Kings and performed her own material with an excellent trio from Tokyo: Mitsuaki Kishi who has several CD's on Japanese BMG and has appeared with Diana Krall on a Concord Jazz Festival.The Japanese fans loved Janet's style and were very excited about her 'Art of Lounge' CD's.
She then flew to the USA where she appeared at the Lake Chautauqua Festival singing with Dave McKenna, Keith Ingham, Michael More, Howard Alden, Dan Barrett and Harry Allen.
Spending 3 weeks in New York, Janet met Jackie and Roy at the Firebird Cafe and had meetings with Cabaret bookers at The Algonquin and Judy's Chelsea regarding her 'Doris and Me' Show.
She performed this show in 'Triad' Jazz Club in New York and in 'The Residence' Brooklyn.
At a cocktail party given for visiting Australian man about town, Pat Corrigan, Janet met Jazz Promoter George Wein and Australian writer Lily Brett and Australian artist, David Rankin.
Janet appeared with Bob Jeffery and Billy Ross at the OCT 2000 Glenelg Jazz Festival with the wonderful Zephyr String Quintet.
The Highlight was the concert in St Andrews church where the strings played acoustically.
Janet and the band toured extensively in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia during1999 and 2000.
Here are some of the reviews, press clippings, pictures and general happenings from those tours.
Barry Ralph (Gold Coast Bulletin): Janet Seidel is now at the peak of her career.
Northern Daily Leader: Sydney jazz vocalist Janet Seidel will swing into Tamworth with her brilliant band for a concert at the Longyard Hotel.
Gold Coast Bulletin: The Janet Seidel quintet brings its intelligent brand of supper jazz to the Gold Coast Arts Centre.
Toowoomba Jazz Society: Wow! We had a capacity crowd. We were stunned to find we were witnessing a World Class Act.
Kevin Jones, jazz critic for The Australian wrote in Soundscapes magazine: "Janet Seidel is a class singer. Her voice is as pure and warm as a Summer breeze."
In Sydney"s Telegraph Mirror Hugh Nolan wrote: "She has a voice with a fine range and an immaculate jazz feel...(and also)...plays some lovely piano on several tracks".
In the Melbourne Age critic Adrian Jackson praised her "nimble vocals", her "unfailing taste" and described Janet as "very listenable".
An early review of her work is reflected in a 1981 Adelaide Advertiser feature article which opened with: "Janet Seidel plays piano and sings. Beautifully. Hauntingly..."
Just before she left Adelaide to live in Sydney an article in TV Radio Extramagazine was headed "Adelaide loses a star".