Jazz posts

Jazz-On-Wednesdays brings you the magic of world jazz. Listen to Jazz Sketches with Robert Vale at noon and an international cast, and Planet Jazz with Xavier Bichon at 7pm, featuring Norwegian trumpeter Marius Neset.

McAll’s musical compositions have moments of exuberance and fire, and there is a lot happening on each track. Lovers of big band sextet sound will revel in the music revealed on this album.

US jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal has died aged 92 after an award-winning career spanning more than seven decades. Listen Anytime to Friday Jazz Session with Alex Siegers for a celebration of his musical performances and his compositions

Polish born Hania Rani is a composer and musician who trained as a classical pianist before incorporating jazz into her work whilst studying at Music School Feliks Nowowiejski in Gdańsk. Her debut album Esja, a beguiling collection of solo piano pieces on UK label Gondwana Records was released to international acclaim on 5 April 2019 and gathered nominations in five categories in the Polish music industry’s own Grammys, the Fryderyki.

Taking inspiration from the personal effect on an individual engulfed in a plague, and a novel text which explores the alienation of one who refuses to conform to social norms to create music, could result in some morbidly depressing listening. However, Chris Cody, a well-travelled, gifted, and experienced jazz musician, has managed to avoid this dilemma by delivering the opposite.

Each Friday at noon, Barry O’Sullivan invites a studio guest onto Friday’s A Jazz Hour, this week drummer, composer, improviser and educator, Bonnie Stewart.

Barry Miles is a jazz musician from Newark, New Jersey, who has made significant contributions to the jazz scene since the 1960s. Born in 1947, Miles grew up in a musical family and began playing piano at a young age. He was soon drawn to jazz music, particularly the music of bebop pioneers like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

2MBS Fine Music Sydney has a commitment to supporting young Australian musicians. Listen in to Emergent Jazz (Saturday 25th at 7pm) for Abby, Andrew, and also Arty, as part of As It Happened - Live at Founders.

George Benson is one of the most influential and versatile guitarists in the history of jazz music. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 22 1943, Benson began his musical career as a young boy, singing and playing the ukulele. By the age of eight, he had already made his first professional recordings, and by the time he was a teenager, he had become a skilled guitarist, playing with some of the top jazz musicians of the time, one of which was Wes Montgomery.

Jazz-On-Wednesdays brings you the magic of world jazz. Listen to Jazz Sketches with Robert Vale at noon, and Planet Jazz with Xavier Bichon at 7pm. Jazz Sketches has the delights...