When the sound of a band needs more than one word to be defined, it’s usually a good sign. The...
Tam Tam Tam Reimagined, well, reimagines a classic Brazilian music, from Jose Prates’ Tam Tam Tam, into the second volume...
This is the ‘anthology’ of modern Cuban music that embodies the diversity of a new generation of artists beyond the...
Gilles Peterson has become synonymous with the continued revelation of the latest talents that fuse non-traditional jazz with musical influences...
Hidden away, there is an old Beaux-Arts mansion at 680 Park Ave in New York City wherein members and non-members...
There are moments when you really think that London is turning into a ghost town when it comes to quality...
I’d never been to the Jazz Cafe before, so armed with my Gold DM’s, I shuffle and squeeze myself through...
When it comes to world music labels, you usually think about regional realities with a local or niche following. That’s...
With six albums and a nomination for the Mercury Prize on her resumé, Susheela Raman, British-Indian musician, raised between Australia...
Perched high in Garifuna music’s history is Aurelio Martinez, a songbird of vibrant, metisse, colours. Garifuna music, being that of...
According to Njeddo Dewal, a Peulh folktale on the origins of the ethnic group, as told by Amadou Hampate Ba,...
Despite jazz’s being born to warm weather New Orleans, a city full of “elaborate wedding-cake ceilings, wide sliding doors, tall...