Tracks of the Week 27.01.24
Back in 2008 as Jon Irabagon prepared for his first album as a leader, his plans were as simple as they were ambitious: to take his main three horns in the alto,...
Back in 2008 as Jon Irabagon prepared for his first album as a leader, his plans were as simple as they were ambitious: to take his main three horns in the alto,...
In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger...
It’s an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never...
‘The cock crows / But no queen rises’ begins ‘Depression Before Spring’ by the elliptical modernist Wallace Stevens, a silvery wisp of a poem full of bird call and nonsense syllables from...
Now well into its second decade, the Coin Coin project by the saxophonist and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts continues to explore African-American history through a recuperative focus on memory and ancestry, summoning...
At the pith or heart of Mourning Due, the latest album by the Oakland-born and Brooklyn-based emcee Nappy Nina, the spoken word poet and jazz visionary Moor Mother delivers a bravura verse...
In the blistering August heat past the scorched remains of field fires which set ablaze the Waveney Valley, easing down narrow lanes and edging her way betwixt dotted meadows of immutable dairy,...