There are some years where choosing a personal album of the year is rather straightforward, something either stands above the ...

So then I go and I make another cup of coffee and two pieces of toast with raspberry jelly and now I’m going to call Allen ...

John Patitucci, one of the world’s great bassists, was an irreplaceable pillar of the unsurpassable Wayne Shorter Quartet for ...

Conducting the staple Viennese fare of New Year's Day is no easy task. Quite apart from the basic essential panache - so ...

So then I go and I make another cup of coffee and two pieces of toast with raspberry jelly and now I’m going to call Allen ...

Time flies. It’s 10 years since the first iteration of The Night Manager landed on BBC One (shortly before its star Tom ...

There is joy, energy – and indeed no little irony – about the way in which Hollywood A-listers Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson ...

When it comes to a dance roundup, you surely won’t be able to come up with a Top Ten, will you? Even a Top Five might be a ...

It wasn't exactly a stellar year for comedy but there were plenty of shows that shone brightly and have stayed with me, even ...

For a beautiful treatment of Matsuo Bashō's celebrated haiku “A frog jumps in”, the dreamlike stream-of-consciousness of “I ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

A foreign-language release steeped in Catholicism isn’t exactly what you’d expect to top virtually every end-of-year album ...