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Acoustics aside, this was an imaginative program of less familiar works, thoughtfully assembled and skillfully performed.

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Prog, glam, space rock and the avant-garde collided in bizarre, brilliant albums that challenge, delight, and redefine what ...

Paul Gambaccini hosts radio's most challenging music quiz. Now in its 39th series, contestants from around the country have assembled to be tested on their knowledge of music from across the centuries ...

YEARS ago, when the laws of musical sounds, like the laws of Nature before Newton, lay hid in night, it was not unusual for clever and ingenious writers on music to invent what they called “systems of ...

The hot music topic in Los Angeles last week was the cool jazz of a gaunt, hungry-looking young (25) fellow named Gerry Mulligan, who plays the baritone saxophone. For the past three months, ...

Paul Gambaccini hosts radio's most challenging music quiz. Now in its 39th series, contestants from around the country have assembled to be tested on their knowledge of music from across the centuries ...

Brilliant Melbourne-based jazz saxophonist Fiona Burnett’s album Counterpoint transverses different moods and colours, like light changing on a landscape. This album of largely improvises pieces takes ...