{{Short description|Australian saxophonist, composer and arranger}} {{About|the Australian jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger|the Scottish singer-songwriter and Grammy Award winner|Graham Lyle}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Graeme Lyall | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|size=100%}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1942|01|25}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Australia | instrument = {{hlist|Saxophone|flute|clarinet}} | genre = Jazz, big band, classical orchestration | occupation = {{hlist|Musician|composer|arranger|teacher}} | years_active = 1958–present | label = Graeme Lyall Music | website = }}
'''Graeme William Lyall''' (AM),<ref name="Order">{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1042223|title=LYALL, Graeme William|work=It's an Honour - Honours - Search Australian Honours|publisher=Government of Australia|date=26 January 2003|accessdate=31 January 2010|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214843/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1042223&search_type=quick&showInd=true|url-status=live}}</ref> is an Australian saxophonist, composer and arranger. He became a Member of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2003: "''For service to music as Artistic Director of the Western Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra, and as a musical director, composer and performer.''"<ref name="Order"/>
==Biography== Graeme William Lyall was born in Melbourne, Australia on January 25, 1942. In his growing up years he trained as a musician with Frank Smith in his native city.<ref name="GROVE">{{Cite encyclopedia |last1=Pressing |first1=Jeff |first2= John|last2=Whiteoak |first3=Adrian |last3=Jackson| date=2001 |entry=Lyall, Graeme (William ) |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J277000}}</ref> He began playing professionally in Melbourne at the age of 17.<ref name="JA">{{cite journal|url=http://jazz.org.au/graeme-lyall-awarded-order-of-australia-for-services-to-music/|journal=Jazz Australia|title=GRAEME LYALL AWARDED ORDER OF AUSTRALIA FOR SERVICES TO MUSIC|author=Hash Varsani|date=January 25, 2023}}</ref>
In 1961 Lyall moved to Sydney when he began studying at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music. While a student there he played regularly at the El Rocco club in Sydney from 1961-1963.<ref name="GROVE"/> By the time he was 22 years old he was working as a woodwind player and a music arranger in the TCN 9 Orchestra. His work with the group included writing arrangements for Bobby Limb, Dave Allen, Don Lane, John Laws and Stuart Wagstaff.<ref name="JA"/>
In 1969 Lyall was a founding member of the Daly-Wilson Big Band. In 1970 he toured Japan as a member of Don Burrows's septet.<ref name="GROVE"/> In 1971 he took a composing, arranging and record production role at Armstrong Studios and moved back to Melbourne.{{citation needed|date=August 2024}} He was a member of the ABC Melbourne Showband from 1974-1977.<ref name="GROVE"/> He become the Director of Music at GTV-9 Melbourne, including work on the ''Don Lane Show''. During his time in Melbourne, Graeme was the winner of the Best Arrangement at the World Popular Song Festival four times and winner of the Australian Writers and Art Directors Guild award for the Best Music for a Television Commercial (Hallmark Greeting Cards).<ref name="JA"/>
Lyall often did not record under his own name. He performed on recordings by John Sangster (1974), Tony Gould (1984, c mid-1990s), and Judy Bailey (1992).<ref name="GROVE"/> ==Honours== He is the 2015 inductee into the Australian Jazz Bell Awards Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://australianmusician.com.au/uncategorized/report-australian-jazz-bell-awards-2015/|title=REPORT: AUSTRALIAN JAZZ BELL AWARDS 2015|journal=Australian Musician|date=May 1, 2015}}</ref>
He became a Member of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2003, "''For service to music as Artistic Director of the Western Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra, and as a musical director, composer and performer.''"<ref name="Order"/><ref name="JA"/>
He currently (2023) lives in Mount Gambier.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://borderwatch.com.au/news/2023/03/29/music-education-through-jazz-at-fringe/|title=Music education through jazz at Fringe|journal=The Border Watch|date=March 29, 2023}}</ref>
==Generations in Jazz== Graeme was the Division 2 adjudicator at Generations in Jazz, an annual festival that provides an opportunity for High School big bands from around Australia to compete against each other and for students to hear live performances from the likes of, John Morrison, Ross Irwin and several others.{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}
==Discography== ===Albums=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1" |- ! rowspan="2"| Title ! rowspan="2"| Album details ! colspan="1"| Peak chart positions |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! style="width:40px;"| AUS<br /><ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=182}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | ''Feel So Good'' | * Released: June 1982 * Format: LP * Label: Hammard (HAM 074) | 83 |- ! scope="row" | ''Love Blues and Other Fiction'' <br /> (with Joe Chindamo) | * Released: 2004 * Format: CD * Label: Newmarket Music (NEW 3163.2) | - |- ! scope="row" | ''Smokingun'' <br /> (with The Joe Chindamo Trio) | * Released: 2006 * Format: CD * Label: Newmarket Music (NEW 3180.2) | - |- ! scope="row" | ''Esperança'' <br /> (with The Con Artists) | * Released: 2006 * Format: CD, Digital download * Label: The Con Artists (CA6) * Note: Lead Vocals – Megan Washington | - |- ! scope="row" | ''The Hunters & Pointers'' (with John Hoffman, Tony Gould, Ben Robertson, Tony Floyd) | * Released: 2013 * Format: CD, Digital download * Label: | - |}
==Awards and nominations== ===ARIA Music Awards=== The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. {{awards table}} ! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |- | 2007 | ''Smokingun'' (with Joe Chindamo) | Best Jazz Album | {{nom}} | <ref name="JazzAlbum">ARIA Award previous winners. {{cite web|url=https://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/award/best-jazz-album?view=list#|title=ARIA Awards Best Jazz Album|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|access-date=26 June 2022}}</ref> |- | 2014 | ''The Hunters & Pointers'' (with John Hoffman, Tony Gould, Ben Robertson, Tony Floyd) | Best Jazz Album | {{nom}} | <ref name="JazzAlbum"/> |- {{end}}
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==External links== *[http://www.move.com.au/artist.cfm/132 Move Records] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080821150138/http://www.graemelyall.com.au/ Graeme Lyall official website (archived)]
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