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Julian Lage – Scenes from Above

A chugging backbeat and twinkling keys herald 'Opal' and its shifting patchwork of colours, at once common and precious, an interplay of stunning rainbow iridescences with a more muted or earthy palette of sweet honeyed reds and yellows or Tiffany blues and milky greens. The song leads out Scenes from Above, the guitarist Julian Lage's fifth outing on Blue...

Kris Davis and the LutosÅ‚awski Quartet – The Solastalgia Suite

A brisk sweep of American letters might suggest the title of Thomas Wolfe's second posthumous novel You Can't Go Home Again as a kind of crystallisation or riposte of F. Scott Fitzgerald's now classic The Great Gatsby, whose main character could look out over the teeming quiet of the Long Island Sound, described in the novel as a 'great...

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

In the films of John Cassavetes the threat of violence can get right up into the nostrils...

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