Unlike many albums that cross our desk, we are very much Richard Spaven-aware. Long before ‘Spaven’s 5ive’ for Jazz ...

The contrafact is one of jazz’s oldest sleights of hand — a new melody smuggled in over borrowed changes — and Chicago ...

There’s a pleasing origin story behind this one. The session that became Eternal Gong Bath of the Sunbed Mind had been ...

There is a particular alchemy that occurs when a travelling veteran drops into a thriving local scene, and Love Walked In ...

Aarhus guitarist and composer Gorm Askjær last graced these pages in 2021 with Secret Safari’s First Movement, a record that ...

Two Minds, the mesmerising second album from Shadowlands, invites the listener into a space where time seems suspended, where ...

The professional mourner is a curious figure: hired to grieve, yet the body doing the weeping cannot always tell the ...

The sleeve is the first joke, and it’s a good one. The New Atomic dresses itself in the mushroom-cloud typography of Count ...

Vinyl has found some unlikely new routes to market, and this 140g LP arrives by one of the more interesting: a 2026 ...

For more than two decades, Zoe Rahman has occupied a distinctive place in British jazz, combining formidable technique with a deeply personal compositional voice. Since emerging with her Mercury Prize ...

Indonesia is not a country the Western soul narrative has ever paid much attention to, which says everything about the narrative and nothing about Indonesia. Surabaya alone has form. It was the city ...

There is a quiet confidence in musicians who feel no need to advertise their modernity, and it runs through most of Secret ...