CLARE HANSSON: BRISBANE'S FIRST LADY OF JAZZ

Clare Hansson now lives the music she has always longed to play, and she has become, in three short years, Brisbane’s most renowned – perhaps first lady – of jazz.  She has captured in equally short time for a jazz musician, a remarkably popular and regular following.  She has led various groups and played solo piano at Brisbane’s major jazz spots – the Jazz Cellar, Bonaparte’s, and the Jazz Action Society.  And continuing musical growth is, finally, what Clare Hansson is all about.  Her primary goals are now to continue the musically fruitful associations she has found in Brisbane, to explore new horizons, and to continue to strive for a true Hansson style embodying delicacy, sparkle and freshness, and above all, emotion.

Neville Meyers, Jazz Magazine, July/August 1982.