THE James Morrison Sextet is set to kick start the 20th Kiama Jazz and Blues Festival when they perform at Shellharbour Workers' Club on Friday March 9.

Fourteen-year-old Lachlan Dellar has every right to beam as brightly as his tenor horn. After all, he is the under 15 and under 19 NSW solo Champion of Champions.

SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Meet the Music Concert, May 20 THIS Meet the Music concert sure was a night of tunes. Rachmaninov's third piano concerto took up the first half with an almost embarrassment of melodic richness. Richard Mills's Symphonic Pictures from The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

IN YOUTH it was very pleasant to sit in a cafe and inspect the assembled pseuds, and it was humbling and good for the soul to realise that, as far as the weirdo in the corner was concerned, you were part of the assembly, just as was he from..read more

SO, FAREWELL to you, Dexter Gordon. Elegant force and the joyful motor rhythm - those were your hallmarks ... this "poem" with apologies to E.J.Thribbs of Private Eye. The Best Of Dexter Gordon is a good selection from a series of buoyant early 1960s albums. In one..read more