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Tracks of the Week 03.06.23

Tracks of the Week
By the summer of 1961, the indomitable saxophonist John Coltrane had established his first quartet and opened new harmonic expanses for jazz through his sheets of sound. As a leader for Atlantic, the cascades of 'Countdown' and 'Giant Steps' with its loping bassline and spirited cycle of chromatic thirds helmed his first iconic album and introduced what would become...

Tracks of the Week 02.07.22

Tracks of the Week
Summoning spectres to light the present, on the crackling centrepiece to her new album Jazz Codes the songwriter and spoken word poet Moor Mother reaches back beyond the birth of the form to the Fisk Jubilee Singers or to misters Tambo and Bones, under the limelights of Broadway or out there on the Mississippi River, broaching the devious and...

Tracks of the Week 16.04.22

Tracks of the Week
Described as an experiment in immediacy, back in 2020 the Portland-based label Sahel Sounds doubled down on its commitment to the music of the Southern Sahara with its searing blend of psychedelic jams, crackling choral textures, roiling dub rhythms, and boisterous desert blues. Familiar faces like Etran de L'Aïr and the Nigerien techno pioneer Hama plus newcomers from Bounaly...