Tenor sax player Mark Turner has released Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - a powerful commentary on important social issues for our time. Inspired by the James Weldon Johnson book The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , Turner has composed a suite that juxtaposes spoken extracts from the book alongside fine, complex and intricate modern jazz. The book is a semi-fictional account, set in post-Reconstruction America, of a biracial man able to ‘pass’ as

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Just when you think you’ve heard all an artist has to offer, they produce something as entrancing as Jacob Collier ’s ‘The Light for Days’. With seven GRAMMY® wins and performances to crowds around the world, Collier was on top form at this summer’s Love Supreme Festival, but this new collection of originals and covers seems to herald a new direction after the intense productions of the Djesse project. With just a couple of guitars over four days, The Light for Days  comprise

Innovation and tradition crossing borders

Big thanks for Federation of the Disco Pimp for bringing funky sounds

Modern chamber opera at World Heart Beat Music

Einaudi reworked by Einaudi

Music that flows between classical and jazz

Whatever ‘it’ is, they’ve got it

Music of the 1920s and 30s brought to life in 2025

Australian jazz is really finding its feet

The unstoppable Mr Laurance

An international celebration of the music of Egberto Gismonti 

Cool contemporary and jazz flute from Sweden

Trio jazz done right

Dave Bristow’s ‘Sides’ contains gems from legendary guitarist Mike Stern

Australian genre-bending music

The power of remembering: ‘Ibuka’ album launch

Intimate and refreshing ‘IN.SIGHT’ from Mantwill’s huge orchestra

A creativity identity that is anything but hidden