I meet Michael Tortoni at his café, part of his Bennetts Lane Jazz Club in Melbourne's CBD. Tortoni is the Melbourne International Jazz Festival's artistic director and I'm the festival's development manager so waiting to interview the boss is like a D-I-Y dental. Once we started though, it wasn't too tough. Tortoni's youthful face and geek-cool go someway to dissolve my fears.

Tortoni is one of ten children from an Italian family who migrated along with hundreds of thousands of other Italians in the 1950s. He is the founder of one of Australia's most significant jazz clubs, the artistic curator of Australia's biggest jazz festival, he's a musician and was once a very successful stockbroker.

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