Editors' Notes Jazz's Aussie and Kiwi contingents venture into everything from dark and haunting chamber-jazz to future-soul to classic acoustic quartets. It's a family of sounds as rich and expansive as the countries themselves, offering beauty and forward-looking invention in equal measure. Our editors regularly refresh this playlist. If you like a song, add it to your library.
Archimedes (feat. Roger Manins, Leonardo Coghini & Luther Hunt)
9:28
The Night Was Sultry
5:49
#34 (feat. Jeremy Rose, Max Alducca & Dave Goodman)
4:52
Mashigo Jukja (feat. Aaron Choulai)
8:00
Things Ain’t (Arrangement inspired by the Aboriginal chant ‘Barrabul-la’ (Wollawarree Bennelong – Wangul clan, 1793, with permission from the Sydney Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council) and ‘Things Ain’t What They Used to Be’ (Mercer Ellington, 1942))
9:14
Going in Circles (feat. Gian Slater)
7:10
It's Hip to Be Humble
9:19
Across a Field As Vast As One (feat. Mat Jodrell & Andrea Keller)
7:36
From the River to You (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jackson Harrison, Andreas Lang & Tobias Backhaus)
6:45
Thebe
12:08
Rainbow Cake (feat. Oscar Neyland, Chris Cameron, Sam Keevers, Tom Mansfield, Brae Grimes, Josh Kelly & Steven Byth)
4:16
From Cousteau‘s Point of View
5:37
Hard Love (feat. Lionel Loueke, Jeremy Rose, Nick Garbett, Alex Masso, Jonathan Zwartz & Danny Fischer)
4:59