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“New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz. It really was a melting pot of different cultures… so you had all these amazing influences from different cultures and that made jazz and that hasn’t changed.”
Jazz Musician Shannon Barnett, in Tall Poppies, The Podcast

Shannon Barnett was named Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year in 2007, an accolade that recognised her exceptional trombone playing and compositional talent.
Born in the Australian state of Victoria, she completed her music studies in Melbourne and New York. In 2014 she moved to Germany and became a member of the WDR Big Band in Cologne. Since 2015, Shannon has had her own quartet with Cologne-based musicians.
Over the last decade, Shannon has become an important contributor to the Australian and international music scene, performing in diverse ensembles, including Vada, the Australian Art Orchestra, Charlie Haden and the Paul Grabrowsky Sextet.
Shannon was recently appointed Professor of Jazz Trombone at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne.
In this podcast, the extraordinary jazz trombonist Shannon Barnett joins Breandáin to talk about her phenomenal career in music, the challenges she continues to face as a female musician and about the inspiration she finds through teaching the next generation of musicians.