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...
Dance to the beat of the mayflower drum. Sway with the lilting fluid guitar and chant with lungs full of...
In between Winter Jazzfest sets, I hurried through the slush and powder of New York City winter, in order to...
It might have been released close to the end of the year, but three months were more than enough to...
Today, black music is warmth, experimentation, crossbreeding, avant-garde, tradition, and rhythm. Turin’s Jazz Re:Found festival explores these definitions, with a...
In three weeks’ time, Aurelio will bring his soothing Garifuna sound to London. Yet, that won’t be the only treat...