The all-jazz radio station WETF 105.7 FM (South Bend, Indiana) is worth everyone’s attention. For more info, see: https://wetfthejazzstation.org/home Among the many ...

Thirty-five-year-old Shabaka Hutchings’ new album features his South African collective, The Ancestors, and follows up Wisdom Of Elders from 2016. It’s a grandiose project – an hour-long “sonic poem” ...

I have to admit that I found listening to this album rather tedious. With the exception of The Time, the tracks have a sameness about them and, as you might expect, each is dominated by Ginger Baker’s ...

Another fine example of Garbarek’s ability to develop aspects of jazz phrasing and dynamics while blending into music of a folk-derived, essentially contemplat­ive, meditational character. Apart from ...

Nicole Mitchell is a renowned flautist and former chair of the AACM. Ballaké Sissoko an innovative kora player from Mali. Both are esteemed composers and both have defied convention in their ...

Micic is an unfamiliar name in the UK, but possibly known by readers for his work with trumpeter Tom Harrell and by followers of jazz guitar for his development of the styles of Jim Hall and John ...

With this album, Weather Report restore interest and credibility. Past efforts have been guilty of all manner of vapid redundancy, but this has rich content, imagination, fire and passion. A shift of ...

The late Nils Lindberg was a true renaissance man equally at home in classical, jazz and Swedish folk music. The first seven titles here were recorded soon after he had left Stockholm’s Royal College ...