<p><span><span>- As the world continues to spend days apart, it seems an opportune time to review some solo improvisation. The past few years have seen local pianist Sophie Min proving herself a force to be reckoned with on the Australian jazz scene. Endlessly prolific, her ever-growing catalogue boasts collaborations with some of Brisbane's most exciting players: the likes of <strong>Ben Shannon</strong>, <strong>Helen Svoboda</strong> and <strong>Tim Green</strong>.

- I doubt there’s a person out there who doesn’t feel hard-done-by when it comes to 2020’s Covid19 experience. As always, however, when you’re in Australia, you’ve really got to put your problems in perspective. Even this country’s musos, who are undoubtedly doing it tougher than most, probably have it better than one act out of the pack in particular, Brainbeau, who picked a remarkably poor time to be touring Europe.

<p><span><span>- Is there a worse genre name in existence than so-called "world music"? At best the term is hopelessly vague, at worst actually racist in the way we conjure infinitely expanding monikers for the limited stylistic variations of english-language popular music, but lump literally everything else into one basket.</span></span></p>

<p><span><span>- Melbourne label La Sape have just released an album from jazz band JK Group. Led by local saxophonist <strong>Josh Kelly</strong>, The Young Ones features his <strong>30/70</strong> bandmates <strong>Matt Hayes</strong> and <strong>Ziggy Zeitgeist</strong> with keys player/producer <strong>Lewis Moody</strong> (<strong>Z*F*E*X</strong>, <strong>Sex on Toast</strong>).