{"id":117546,"date":"2025-11-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=117546"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:21:17","slug":"jazz-club-turns-40-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/living\/jazz-club-turns-40-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz club turns 40 in style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALLARAT Jazz Club celebrated its 40th birthday on Sunday 9 November at the Ballarat Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>Maryborough Traditional Jazz Ensemble and Lightning Jazz Band performed separately, then combined.<\/p>\n<p>Several 1985 founding members attended including Herb Jennings, Bob Pattie, Bob Scurry and Terry Lockett.<\/p>\n<p>Club archivist and life member Cindy Turnbow displayed hundreds of posters and digital photographs on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Many attendees dressed in colourful jazz costumes. Noreen Blake and Geoff Merritt were best dressed.<\/p>\n<p>President Peter Morris thanked the committee for their hard work organising the event, especially to life members Ms Turnbow and Marion McHenry.<\/p>\n<style id=\"bwg-style-0\">      #bwg_container1_0 #bwg_container2_0 #bwg_mosaic_thumbnails_div_0 {        width: 100%;        position: relative;        background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00);        text-align: center;        justify-content: center;                  margin-left: auto;          margin-right: auto;                    padding-left: 2px;          padding-top: 2px;                }          #bwg_container1_0 #bwg_container2_0 .bwg_mosaic_thumb_spun_0 {        display: block;        position: absolute;\t\t\t\tborder-radius: 0;\t\t\t\tborder: 0px none #CCCCCC;    \t\t    \t\tbackground-color:rgba(0,0,0, 0.30);        -moz-box-sizing: content-box !important;        -webkit-box-sizing: content-box !important;        box-sizing: content-box !important;      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