Alex Hutchinson

Alex Hutchinson (born December 24, 1934) is a jazz musician who plays clarinet and saxophone. Alex Hutchinson is an Australian jazz musician, whose career has spanned over fifty years of Australian Jazz since he played his first paying gig at age fifteen. Alex was born in Melbourne and since touring South Australia with The Graeme Bell All Stars in 1955 and 1956 has been an integral part of the city's jazz scene, playing at numerous jazz conventions, countless jazz festivals and thousands of gigs. He was active and for many years president of his local Musicians Union. Alex Hutchinson plays clarinet and saxophone, but in recent years he has concentrated on solely his clarinet, a 1961 Selmer 9 star Clarinet. His clarinet style has been greatly influenced by Benny Goodman, Buddy DeFranco, Artie Shaw and to a lesser degree Tony Scott. Alex's fourth album Clarinet Love Affair was released in late 2007. 2Early Formative Years ‘’Jazzbeat Magazine’’ of August 2011 published an in-depth feature on Alex Hutchinson as a talented performer who, with others, enriched the music scene of Melbourne over many decades. Born on Christmas Eve, 1934, the young Alex Hutchinson became inspired, at the age of 13, by the music of Benny Goodman. As a young teenager, Alexander Hutchinson, found that he had,as a natural instinctive talent, an ear for musi