Black Focus is the culturally influenced debut album from junglist jazz duo Yussef Kamaal, on release with Brownswood Recordings. Delivered...
Despite jazz’s being born to warm weather New Orleans, a city full of “elaborate wedding-cake ceilings, wide sliding doors, tall...
When the sound of a band needs more than one word to be defined, it’s usually a good sign. The...
Last Sunday we went to The Pickle Factory for the first night of Ovation, a monthly series that will bring...
Among the dozens of bands that claim to play some unclassifiable music, Melt Yourself Down are probably one of the...
A voice with a conscience, songs with a message. Soweto Kinch is part of a new breed of young musicians...
Today, black music is warmth, experimentation, crossbreeding, avant-garde, tradition, and rhythm. Turin’s Jazz Re:Found festival explores these definitions, with a...
Gilles Peterson has become synonymous with the continued revelation of the latest talents that fuse non-traditional jazz with musical influences...
The fear across the world that Trump’s ‘extreme vetting’ executive order was a poorly conceived smokescreen to appease an angry,...
Lander Lenaerts doesn’t simply nurture an unconditional love for jazz, he’s also one of its most stimulating European experts. Next to promoting the art form through DJ-sets, a...
Like the smell of a freshly printed book with the anticipated suspense of a can’t-put-it-down storyline, the debug gig for...
We discovered them almost one year ago thanks to their debut album and it was love at first listen. That’s...