Spoilt for Choice: MIJF 2025 Highlights

The 2025 Melbourne International Jazz Festival again left the jazz audience spoilt for choice, leaving them with some hard choices to make between so many international and local acts.

Bill Frisell: ‘my own true voice is the guitar’

People say of Bill Frisell that he reinvented the way people think about the electric guitar. That’s possibly an understatement.

Petra Haden’s Movie Magic

I told my Dad about it and he was so happy to hear that [Bill Frisell and I] would be working together. I said something like, “Hey Dad, I’m a jazz cat!”

Emma Franz: “I wanted to understand what drew me to Bill Frisell’s music”

I get tired of seeing films about loud, arrogant figures who feel the need to be up front, in front, or affronting; even the way Bill arranges the band on stage says so much about his attitude, how its about the music, how he tries to affect the music from the inside out.