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Since the release of 3+3 the formidable cellist Tomeka Reid has appeared on a hat-trick of stunning new albums, personal favourites and contenders for all sorts of accolades, deeply collaborative projects that are up there with some of the best jazz records of the past few years. As part of the Hemphill Stringtet alongside the violinists Curtis Stewart and Sam...

Already this year Mary Halvorson has starred alongside Sylvie Courvoisier for the spellbinding and spine tingling Bone Bells where she trifled whimsically with flamenco strums and dove headlong into grungy riffs round and about her familiar circuitous matter while Courvoisier on her piano rose steeply or dashed off runaway keys. Widely experimental, meditative and even moving amid all of...

Conceived several years ago when he read Henry Miller's rousing and anguished Tropic of Cancer and John Steinbeck's dusty classic of the Depression era The Grapes of Wrath and had Charlie Chaplin's late silent romance City Lights on repeat view, on his new album For These Streets the trumpeter Adam O'Farrill seeks to channel some of those artistic currents...