Thelonious Monk is considered to be one of jazz music’s most inventive pianists and composers. His back catalogue is widely known, his most popular compositions often called at jazz jams and taught to budding young musicians. Yet jazz guitarist Miles Okazaki…
Mr Scruff’s Keep it Unreal will celebrate twenty years in Manchester next year, making it one of…
Don Giovanni Records, the New Brunswick-based label renowned for championing artists from New Jersey and…
The longlist for the 2018 Scottish Album of the Year was announced earlier this week,…
It was during the mid-to-late-seventies that filmmaker, DJ and musician Don Letts first became involved in London’s burgeoning punk and reggae scenes. He was chiefly responsible for the cross-pollination that occurred between the movements: playing dub records to crowds of punks…
From barman at Manchester’s venue Band on the Wall, to acclaimed jazz performer, Sam Rapley…
Described as “the consummate ‘rapper’s rapper’,”Murs is an artist whose stripes have been hard earned. He…
Having been named Jazz Ensemble of the Year at the 2017 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, Phronesis have…
Nestled between countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, Greece is positioned at the crossroads of East and West. Greek folk music has developed in perpetual flux as it variably adopted extraneous cultural flows and contested them with its own rooted…
English traditional music is often associated with Romantic imaginaries of ‘green and pleasant lands’ and…
The traditional and popular music of Cuba is amongst the most widely known and enjoyed…
The musics of Brazil are as socially diverse and culturally mixed as its people. Yet,…
Band on the Wall presented a series of films about African music concerts which took place in Manchester from June to September, called We Face Forward, including AfroCubism. AfroCubism was a project which was first conceived in 1996. The plan…
Steve Pretty of Hackney Colliery Band talks us through one of his favourite trumpet phrases,…
Here, Terrace Martin & The Polly Seeds, featuring drummer Trevor Lawrence Jr., bassist Brandon Eugene…
Since his early discovery as a 16-year old keyboardist by world-famous Fela Kuti, who brought…
