There is no real ‘perfect time’ for a debut recording, especially when the debutant has long-since graduated in the proverbial, living, breathing university of musical life,...
What a marvellously unusual recording. The repertoire on Tamborilero by Valeria Matzner, a Montevideo-born Uruguayan now living in Canada echoes with the syncopated rippling thunder of...
You may not have heard much about pianist Darren Pickering and his ensemble Small Worlds outside Australasia, and that is a pity. The cinematic quality of...
The apogee of this magnificent disc, Subduing the Silence, by Ruiqi Wang is, unquestionably, the song cycle dedicated to Li QingZhao [1084-1155], the great Chinese poet...
If the last three albums did not convince you that her inward-looking evocations combined with her gorgeous simplicity of melodic line, makes Lynne Arriale not a...
Two qualities of Don Thompson that one finds irresistible is that he is musicianly to the core, quietly and unmistakably commanding your attention at every level,...
More than a decade ago, pulling no punches and taking no prisoners in an interview in The Guardian, the violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy lamented about: “the...
You know instinctively that an album with the title Jazz, Torch & Ancient Pop [a title that needs no explanation really] is likely to hit the...
With the 2024 Awards season not far from the proverbial corner, one is likely to be blinded by an onrush of accolades for various performances. This...
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It takes a very special artist to understand both the solemnity and the joy of Christmas. It takes dwelling in such a quietude to come up...
