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.

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

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

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

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 ...

This is a thoroughly comprehensive, complete biography of Dolphy’s life and music. After an informative foreword by Jeff Schwartz and an introduction by the author, the first chapter gives a brief ...