Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2022
This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music,...
Tracks of the Week 17.12.22
In the summer of 2019, as the venerable jazz and new music venue LOFT in Cologne prepared to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, the absence of the Steinway D-274 concert grand piano which...
Tracks of the Week 10.12.22
This week the drummer, pianist, and vibraphonist Joe Chambers returns to Blue Note to unravel some of the rhythmic affinities shared by jazz, Latin, Brazilian, Argentinian, and African music, between interpretations of...
Tracks of the Week 03.12.22
Overlooked at the time, following a handful of sessions on Blue Note which marked his debut as a leader, between 1952 and 1954 the pianist Thelonious Monk cut a series of records...
Tracks of the Week 26.11.22
With a ritual for every season, Laura Cannell armed with her signature overbow violin reunites with her fellow medievalist André Bosman, who conjures strains of American primitivism, Appalachian sprawl, coronach, and the...
Tracks of the Week 19.11.22
This week the tap dancer Janne Eraker, fiddle player Vegar Vårdal, and bassist Roger Arntzen land with the click of a heel on the Lisbon-based jazz label Clean Feed Records, as from...
Tracks of the Week 12.11.22
The Chicago native 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. Locating...
Tracks of the Week 05.11.22
Following the delicate harmonies and swinging melodies of Mesmerism, the album of standards which Tyshawn Sorey released in the summer alongside the bassist Matt Brewer and pianist Aaron Diehl, the drummer returns...
Tracks of the Week 29.10.22
With wry wit and a handful of orbiting factoids Ishmael Reed wonders what on earth we’d do without the moon, that star which spices up our sky, in the company of flautist...