Tracks of the Week 09.03.24
Great Britain likes to think of itself as the country which ended slavery, what with Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce and all that. Yet a few years ago a BBC documentary pulled...
Tracks of the Week 20.01.24
For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for...
Tracks of the Week 02.12.23
Drawn to the art of marginal living, between his first spurts on the conga and bongo drums as a backup musician for Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Anger and Tiny Tim and his more...
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 07.11.20
While the world kept its eyes firmly fixed on a presidential election, its ears yearned for something more than Tom Petty and ‘Y.M.C.A.’ That’s why the legendary percussionist Kahil El’Zabar urged jazzy...