Tracks of the Week 03.06.23
By the summer of 1961, the indomitable saxophonist John Coltrane had established his first quartet and opened new harmonic expanses for jazz through his sheets of sound. As a leader for Atlantic,...
Tracks of the Week 27.05.23
Conceived as an amorous response to the digital age, the steamy outpouring of soundtrack work for Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton and Bafic whose documentary short Sub Eleven Seconds poetically envisioned the...
Tracks of the Week 20.05.23
In the spring of 1971 the release of What’s Going On saw Marvin Gaye switch things up with a song cycle written from the perspective of a Vietnam War veteran, who returns...
Tracks of the Week 13.05.23
What lies between water and the shore? Slipping inside the crevice of a dream, taking her title from a Korean term which encompasses everything from idle fantasies to intrepid night terrors, on...
Tracks of the Week 06.05.23
With its lilting grooves and wry lyrics on a perennial hot-button issue, when Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded ‘Nuclear War’ in 1982 the bandleader took the cut straight to Columbia Records,...
Tracks of the Week 29.04.23
Adding a fresh chapter to an already stellar discography which includes stints with his brothers and the saxophonist Wayne Francis as part of the Afrocentric quartet United Vibrations, born in Londinium while...
Tracks of the Week 22.04.23
The visionary percussionist and veteran bandleader Kahil El’Zabar guides his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and special guests on a rhythmic tour de force in celebration of the legendary jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, figured...
Tracks of the Week 15.04.23
From hyper-literate Oak Park the former National Youth Poet Laureate and fledgling songwriter Kara Jackson holds folk and country music in her thrall, cast through a captivating blend of brusque imagery, dolorous...
Tracks of the Week 08.04.23
The city of Johnstown, around 57 miles east of Pittsburgh in southwestern Pennsylvania, since being settled in 1770 has borne three historic floods. The Great Flood of 1889 after the catastrophic failure...