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.

The RAah Project Ryan Ritchie and Tamil Rogeon | pic by Laki Sideris

Sound of RAah – an interview with Ryan Ritchie of The RAah Project

He insists he is not a jazz man. ‘Seriously, I don’t think I’d be capable of making a genre specific album – I think of the people who shine in those genres and they define themselves in their own way. I think that in our post-modern state those boundaries mean less. I love Puccini, Ravel, Bach, Miles, Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Mingus, Charlie Parker, David Bowie… I just love great music.