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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 before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Described as 'a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious', for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo drew from the fourth-world missives, sinuous jazz piano and drone minimalism of her monthly NTS radio show, the slow cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and a stint at...

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 to the repertoire for something more freewheeling in the form of a three-and-a-half hour live recording from a performance at The Jazz Gallery in New York. Enlisting...