In Performance

If this is your first time listening to Mac Cornish, hearing her tell of the serendipitous circumstances by which she wrote the song 'Wayfaring Woman' - which she performs here for the roving documentary channel Western AF - would not stir you in the least to expect the sheer power of her voice, a captivating instrument which is deep...

Based in Pakistan, the independent label honiunhoni furnishes the world with not only some of its greatest music but also some of its most charismatic performers. There is the impish and dexterous Ustad Noor Bakhsh, both gleeful and sage-like as he plays his electric benju, a type of zither fitted with a keyboard which is native to Sindhi and...

A few years ago Joshua Redman made his debut on Blue Note with where are we. Released some thirty years into his career as a composer and bandleader, the record also served as his first vocal project, making a star of Gabrielle Cavassa's husky voice and sometimes heart-stopping sense of timing and phrasing at the head of an ensemble...