I Hold the Lion’s Paw’s third studio albumPotentially Interesting Jazz Music poses the rhetorical question: what is jazz, or, more pointedly, what might it be? By turn exploratory, playful, and experimental, it is a record that mashes slow-burn trumpet, bass grooves, synths, voice, spoken word, percussion, without ever losing its way or overplaying its hand.

Melbourne based vocalist Michelle Nicolle’s new release The Bach Project richly embraces the music of J.S. Bach in their unique chamber jazz style. The album interrogates the art of interpretation, improvisation and reimagines these masterworks. The quartet’s arrangements showcase the mastery of J.S. Bach’s compositions and add a new flavour to the improvisational elements found (and sometimes lost) in these great works. Features her long standing quartet of guitarist Geoff Hughes, bassist Tom Lee and drummer Ronny Ferella.

“Michelle is a singer born to charm, enlighten and seduce through music.” Kurt Elling