The Melbourne International Jazz Festival aspires to be recognised as a world-class jazz festival. This year, it got it ...

Trumpeter turned arranger Quincy Jones – best known to the general public as the producer of hit Michael Jackson albums after ...

There’s a rumour going around that the life of a music reviewer is only a tad less rewarding than that of Tom Cruise, Andrew ...

R&B, blues, folk, rock and popular – and also some original material. To all the songs on this album Wilson brings a highly ...

Gail Thompson has assembled a very useful big band and together with Andy Macintosh provided some good tunes for it to play.

Yet another jazz dynasty may be upon us as Bill Evans’ grandson releases a recital of Evans compositions. Evans On Evans ...

If you listen to young jazz publicists you might be persuaded that the nominal boundaries between jazz and classical are only ...

Among Allan Holdsworth’s refer­ences are jobs with Tony Wil­liams’ Lifetime, Soft Machine, Bill Bruford and John Stevens. In ...

As intrepid festival director Antanas Gustys explains in the programme, this is the 37th Vilnius Jazz Festival – and ...

This LP is a setting of words from ‘How It Is’ (1964) by Samuel Beckett, interspersed with instru­mental passages. Extensive ...

This is the first album Zachary Bartholomew has released as a band leader – but he hasn’t been lazing around on the couch. No ...

Superlatives are notorious in jazz criticism, but Molde really is a very special event in the jazz calendar. What musicians and fans alike appreci­ate about Molde is that it has always stayed faithful ...