Jazz · From the archive · October 27
A bossa nova recalled familiar Cape Verdean music.
Returning from Brazil, Horace Silver wrote a bossa nova whose melody recalled his father’s Cape Verdean music. The recognition prompted a dedication.
World · From the archive · October 26
A raised lid draws attention to metal and wire. The wooden surface underneath them is doing essential acoustic work.
Jazz · From the archive · October 25
Bobby Hutcherson could supply chordal accompaniment. That did not mean every moment needed a full chord.
Jazz · From the archive · October 24
Producer Teo Macero recalled in 1996 how two short reels became two album sides. The official album page confirms repeated sections in “Shhh/Peaceful”.
World · From the archive · October 23
Tchaikovsky ordered a new instrument and asked his publisher to keep it from other ears.
The keyboard looks like a piano's. Inside a celesta, however, hammers strike metal bars with a wooden resonating box beneath each one. That construction gives the celesta its soft, metallic colour, the one heard in the Sugar Plum Fairy's…
World · From the archive · October 20
Alan Parsons remembered the precision of his guitar playing. Kate Bush also remembered the reassurance he brought to her first album.
World · From the archive · October 19
A clear description of what bothers the player helps distinguish a pitch problem from a question of touch or tone.
World · From the archive · October 18
A tribute to the soul and blues he grew up with also made room for vocal ideas that had yet to arrive.
Jazz · From the archive · October 17
Eight pieces without a band. Bach’s cello suites offered Holland a way to think beyond an extended bass part.
Bach’s cello suites helped Dave Holland work out how to perform alone on double bass. Speaking to KQED in 2018, he described learning to present a whole piece: melody could also suggest its harmony, without every chord having to sound as…
World · From the archive · October 16
The same position under the keyboard can conceal different mechanisms. Selective sustain is only one of them.
Lithuania · From the archive · October 15
A close clash between voices need not be a mistake. Following each part separately offers another way into these multipart songs.
Jazz · New releases · October 14
Gilmore’s grandfather Roy Haynes played on the earlier recording. A shared repertoire still leaves choices about what to keep and what to change.
World · From the archive · October 13
Repeated notes depend on what happens after a strike. Releasing a key is part of playing the next note.
“The releases are just as important as the attacks,” writes pianist and teacher Alan Belkin about Scarlatti’s Sonata in D Minor, K. 141. Its rapid repeated notes require fingers to get out of each other’s way. Fast downward movement is only…
World · From the archive · October 12
A slashed speaker became the famous anecdote. Dave Davies also remembered having to lose the echo.
World · From the archive · October 11
A period piano and an orchestra without a separate conductor make this a question of ensemble playing, not just an antique keyboard.
World · From the archive · October 10
The guitar part arrived quickly. The experience behind it had accumulated through years of playing in a trio.
World · From the archive · October 9
Fifty years after its composition, a close look at the piece reveals rules, exceptions and room for a pianist’s choices.
There is a small surprise at the end of Für Alina. Its melody gains one note per bar until it reaches eight, then starts shrinking. In the final bar, where the pattern would leave a single note, Arvo Pärt adds three more. The composer’s…
From the archive · World · October 8
Tony Visconti linked the room’s contribution to the strength of the singing.
Jazz · New releases · October 6
With Rita Marcotulli and Michel Benita, the saxophonist returns to a format he knew through Carla Bley and Steve Swallow.
World · From the archive · October 5
An extended bass register is only part of the story. Extra strings also matter when their keys remain untouched.
Jazz · From the archive · October 4
His retreat from public performance lasted from 1959 to late 1961. The saxophone stayed with him; the concert schedule did not.
The Bridge is an ensemble record, despite the solitary episode behind its name. On the title track, Sonny Rollins plays tenor alongside Jim Hall’s guitar, Bob Cranshaw’s bass and Ben Riley’s drums. RCA Victor released the studio album in…
From the archive · World · October 3
His Bach playing changed on both instruments. The useful distinction is between a small sound and a small range of musical choices.
From the archive · World · October 2
Wil Malone’s arrangement had to support Shara Nelson without disappearing behind her. An accompaniment can be prominent and still serve the singer.
From the archive · World · October 1
With 54 keys and no pedals, the Met’s 1720 instrument looks modest beside a modern grand. The crucial difference is what happens between a finger and a string.
Jazz · Lithuania · September 30
A welcoming melody can carry a painful story. The singer’s translations give listeners access to a contrast they might otherwise miss.
Eglė Petrošiūtė does not leave the meaning of every song to the listener’s imagination. “I write a Lithuanian translation of some songs,” she told Ieva Pakalniškytė in a 2024 interview for 7 meno dienos. Describing concerts in Lithuania,…
Jazz · Lithuania · September 29
Trio El Grey grew from performances in Vilnius and a wish to record with two old musical friends. Its compact line-up does not dictate the size of the pieces.
Jazz · Lithuania · September 28
From apartment concerts to a hall in Vilnius, one practical measure of intimacy remains: how softly a pianist is able to play.
From the archive · World · September 27
A camera can capture the groove; software supplies the movement of the missing needle.
From the archive · World · September 26
No equipment to carry, but nowhere to hide a hesitation.
Watch one pair of hands in the London Sinfonietta’s filmed Clapping Music, then return your attention to both players. David Hockings and Toby Kearney offer a useful test: can you follow an individual part without being pulled towards the…
From the archive · Soul · September 25
Mazarati’s backing vocals survived the change of artist. The recorded bass did not.
Jazz · New releases · September 22
The 1972 trio recording reaches beyond a single piano sound, with Cowell changing instruments and Clarke's bowed bass added in the studio.
World · September 15
Requiem for a Village makes room for sounds its author cannot entirely control.
World · September 14
A grand that overwhelms a living room poses a different problem from one that must fill a concert hall. Correct pitch is only part of the preparation.
When Harriet Cunningham met Ken Hatfield for her 2025 report, he had just spent two hours softening a grand piano's hammer felt. The instrument had been too overpowering for his client's living room. His next job, at the Sydney Opera House,…
World · Jazz · September 8
One fan order can contain several customs categories. A record, a shirt and a poster make the problem unusually clear.
New releases · World · September 7
A composition once balanced by moving suspended loudspeakers is heading for a stereo release. In its circus version, listeners could change the mix simply by moving.
Jazz · From the archive · September 5
Piano and guitar can thicken a harmony before either player notices. Mick Goodrick and Fred Hersch kept this one-afternoon session clear by listening for when not to play.
New releases · September 4
The anniversary edition adds one unreleased song and twelve live recordings to the 2016 album. Its harder story is how three artists with veto power learned to leave room for one another.
The 10th-anniversary edition of “case/lang/veirs” arrives on 4 September with the original 14 songs, the previously unreleased “Accidental Tattoo” and 12 performances recorded on the trio’s 2016 tour. The larger track list turns a one-off…
Jazz · World · September 3
Wilson never needed volume to command a song. Blue Light ’Til Dawn showed how much her contralto could reveal once the arrangement stopped crowding it.
World · September 2
The proposed class action says a musician’s name can trigger a song, description and image that evoke that person. It brings no copyright claim.
New releases · September 1
Thank You began as low-pressure sessions in a shared home studio, where a Tascam-era musician met two collaborators for whom the computer was the first recording language.
World · August 31
Daisy Chain Fields paired a 14-performance bill with ten nonprofit partners, then doubled its first $10 million when Melinda French Gates announced a matching pledge.
Olivia Rodrigo’s first Daisy Chain Fields festival arrived in California on 29 August with $10 million already raised for ten organizations serving women and girls. At the opening of Rodrigo’s headline set, Melinda French Gates announced…
World · August 30
About 200 US-based Artist Pro creators can set a price and let listeners buy an MP3 or WAV without leaving the platform during the initial beta.
Soul · New releases · August 29
Recorded in Dallas and Los Angeles, it grew from a set of Alchemist beats, Badu’s reconstructions and phone-free shows staged before release.
World · From the archive · August 28
A chambered basswood body carries guitar and bass necks, quarter-tone frets, separate outputs and a design that can be dismantled for flights.
Lithuania · August 27
Šarūnas Nakas and Mindaugas Urbaitis hear the quiet-piano boom with unusual precision. Their hierarchy becomes less secure when Ryuichi Sakamoto reaches the NBA and Eydís Evensen is sent back to school.
After a piece by Hania Rani, Šarūnas Nakas draws the boundary. This episode of Modus will consider a piano that no longer performs as athlete, acrobat or fakir. It speaks quietly and at close range, with pedal and key mechanism left…
World · From the archive · August 26
It began as Boogaloo, borrowed the precision of machine-led disco and accumulated overdubs for months. A live drummer kept the centre from moving.
New releases · August 25
A laptop, a cheap microphone and a folding table became his studio for just over two weeks. Once home, the producer chose not to rebuild what those limits had made.
World · From the archive · August 24
One pipe altered a performance that has sounded in Halberstadt since 2001. The next manual change is due in fourteen months; the final note belongs to 2640.
World · New releases · August 23
Dudamel and the Philharmonia turned twelve works into one Decca album. One melody had been waiting since a backstage piano in 1963.
Life Is a Dream arrived on Decca on 21 August with twelve pieces Anthony Hopkins had written across more than six decades. Gustavo Dudamel conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra at Alexandra Palace in April 2026, with Sergio Tiempo as a piano…
World · August 22
The Peugeot is nearing 20,000 miles, while the rooms have ranged from empty to 500 people. Savings are on course to fall by about £27,000.
World · New releases · August 21
Streaming data showed Cuomo that each instalment of SZNZ was losing listeners. For Weezer’s 20th album, he paused, brought the band deeper into the writing and made the room the test.
World · New releases · August 15
Her first album of original songs since 2008 did not begin with a blank page. Parts of its twelve tracks came back from tapes, notebooks and long-paused drafts.
Jazz · August 13
Miles Davis heard his rhythm section taking greater risks behind George Coleman than behind him. Frank Wess and Lee Konitz listened for different failures: a broken pulse and an old solo arriving on schedule.
Lee Konitz usually stood in front of the rhythm section, as the named soloist was expected to do, but said he would rather stand behind it. The arrangement was not especially fashionable, he admitted, yet it placed him nearer the…
Rush Hour was assembled in an unusual order: Schuller’s orchestral material went onto tape first, and Lovano wrote the smaller pieces in response. Onstage, a cue from the conductor could still alter the solo’s course.
World · August 13
Six official Q&As from 2014 capture musicians who toured with Taylor at different times, not one band on one night. Their routines range from tendinitis exercises to trading guitars online.
Jazz · From the archive · August 13
Harold Rhodes came to the Lighthouse to hear an early version of his piano in public. He found that Hancock had already redesigned the instrument.
Jazz · Soul · August 13
Rotating horns and a turning bass baffle made the cabinet an active part of the instrument. Jimmy Smith turned that machinery into musical grammar.
Jimmy Smith did not describe the Hammond as an instrument to be admired from a distance. “With the Hammond, you feel it in your bones,” he told Dan Ouellette in 1994. Smith supplied bass lines with his left hand and pedals while his right…
Williams built freedom around a dependable right-hand pulse. Art Blakey’s view of time shows why dependability and repetition are not the same thing.
World · From the archive · August 13
The SP-1200 allowed ten seconds of sampling time in total and no more than 2.5 seconds for any one sample. Speed bought space; detuning supplied the crisp artefacts.
Two days before the concert, Monk did not know the engagement existed. A school employee tuned the piano, recorded the set and unknowingly made a future album possible.
World · New releases · August 12
On the next Tallest Man on Earth album, the music of his childhood answers his own long resistance to that inheritance.
Kristian Matsson began the next Tallest Man on Earth album by returning to Dalarna. Just Beyond Endless Mountain arrives through ANTI- on 9 October and contains eleven songs. He says the record was inspired by the traditional music of the…
From the archive · World · August 12
Feel to Believe was supposed to be a first pass before the real recording. David Roback heard that the producer's work was already done.
A lever beneath the key readies the hammer before the key has fully risen. Ravel turned that mechanical possibility into a musical threat.
Jazz · New releases · August 11
Leave That in There begins with a small exchange in Spike Lee’s film about Hurricane Katrina. Fortner turned it into a rule against sanding away the unruly parts of himself.
Soul · From the archive · August 11
The 1976 movie became a cult object; its soundtrack escaped the screen altogether. Curtis Mayfield kept the backing tracks and brought in Franklin to sing the leads.
The women on screen sing in Sparkle, the 1976 drama about three sisters trying to break into Harlem’s late-1950s music business. The record tells a stranger story. Curtis Mayfield wrote and produced the eight songs, then retained the…
World · From the archive · August 11
At the Broad in Los Angeles, Yo La Tengo, Nels Cline and a long guest list treated Ono’s catalogue as a set of roles to cast, not a procession of familiar covers.
Jazz · World · August 11
Artists and vendors had already made plans when the citywide programme began to collapse. Organisers cite late safety and permitting costs, while the festival website still displays dates.
New releases · From the archive · August 10
The seven-song album, due September 18, places five new pieces beside two previously unreleased songs from the 1960s.
Soul · New releases · August 10
The actor narrates and produces a record that joins Mississippi players at Royal Studios with Chineke! Orchestra sessions recorded at Abbey Road.
Morgan Freeman enters Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience as a narrator and producer rather than a screen presence. Released by Decca on August 7, the twelve-track album traces a century of blues, beginning with Blind Willie…
World · New releases · August 10
The six-member group adopted auditions, intensive choreography and tightly coordinated visuals, then built the songs in Spanish without the machinery of a Korean agency.
Jazz · New releases · August 10
Fifteen, with Vijay Iyer and Dafnis Prieto, documents an intermittent conversation between three composers: eight pieces, two studio days and no bassist.
World · August 9
The ten-second theme uses two chords and leaves neat gaps for Peppa's oinks. With no budget, the most convincing instrument samples available became the sound of the show.
AI and music · New releases · August 9
The rapper wanted two parts for $tarface without delay, so a generative system supplied them. He maintains that the writing and every vocal on the album remain his own.
Tyga wanted 1980s synthesisers for one section of $tarface and a guitar solo as soon as possible. Rather than wait for players, he turned to generative AI. The rapper has now confirmed that the technology was used on the album, although he…
New releases · World · August 9
Revelations of Divine Love was recorded live in a Norwegian church with no other instruments. Its 13 texts come from the writings of the 14th-century mystic Julian of Norwich.
New releases · August 9
Six years after Punisher, Lost Weekend is being introduced through surprise shows rather than an interview circuit. At one 500-capacity venue, fans sat cross-legged with their phones put away.
New releases · World · August 8
The elevator goes to hell, but the several-hundred-million-dollar movie does not exist. Carpenter found a cheaper screen in a graphic novel and scored it with his son and godson.
Lithuania · New releases · August 8
Tonight’s Kalnų Parkas show arrives with Future Quiet. Its opening track was never a single, yet three decades later it has become Moby’s most-streamed song.
Moby opens the Sounds Good Vilnius festival at Kalnų Parkas tonight at 7.30pm, one stop on a 28-date European run described as his largest tour in more than a decade. He arrives at an outdoor festival carrying an album called Future Quiet.…
World · From the archive · August 8
The British producer died at home on July 23. His records endure wherever a pop song was allowed to remain slightly stranger than the market required.
Jazz · From the archive · August 8
There is no “Take the A Train” on the solo album. There is a 13-minute “Black and Tan Fantasy,” a low-register storm, and a book Moran wants to hear every night.
Jazz · World · August 5
The symphony’s 12 movements echo the 12 bars of a blues. Marsalis does not hide the differences between jazz band, orchestra and choir; he builds the piece from them.
AI and music · August 5
An anonymous producer’s lawsuit describes not one discreet filter but an emergency vocal production line assembled two days before Vultures 2 arrived.
Two days before Vultures 2 was released in 2024, an anonymous producer says he was brought into the project on an emergency basis. His complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that he built at least 13 custom AI voice models, made…
New releases · From the archive · August 5
He declined to wait for a round anniversary. The five-disc My Aim Is True box treats a debut album less as a monument than a crowded workbench.
New releases · World · August 5
Liz Harris’s trio went quiet after a single album. Two new songs reintroduce a band with its own weight of noise, not a louder footnote to Grouper.
From the archive · World · August 4
With no central band left to follow, the music is moving through small festivals, local cover bands and the last tapers still carrying microphones.
New releases · August 4
The costliest edition of an album increasingly leaves for the factory before the music is finished. A six-week manufacturing window now behaves less like logistics than a second producer.
“No One Lasts Forever”, the closing track on Charli xcx’s Music, Fashion, Film, includes David Cronenberg reflecting on art, death and eternity. That is the streaming version. Fans who pre-ordered the advertised full-length vinyl receive…
From the archive · August 4
Lindsay Anderson went east to make a serious documentary about Wham!. When management needed a quick-selling video, seriousness became the problem.
Jazz · New releases · August 3
A full jazz orchestra, one ballad and a voice that still needs room around it.
Jazz · From the archive · August 3
The sessions were finished, the writer died, and the tapes went missing for longer than anyone intended.
Three solo piano records arrive on August 14. One takes on Mozart, two take on Thelonious Monk.
Jon Batiste’s piano series began with Beethoven. Its first volume, “Beethoven Blues”, sat at the top of the Billboard classical chart for five straight weeks — not a number anyone plans for a solo piano record. The series is called, without…
From the archive · Awards · August 3
Mid-February, a hall built for anything but jazz, and halfway through somebody else’s hit the lyrics ran out.
Lithuania · Jazz · August 2
On July 11, Jacob Collier performed with Take 6 and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, conducted by his mother Suzie Collier.
AI and music · August 2
The court found that Suno infringed rights in a case involving six songs. Damages will be determined later, and the decision can still be appealed.
Soul · New releases · August 2
October London’s Love Me For Me, out August 14 on Death Row Records, is not the sound that label name used to promise.
For years, the name Death Row Records meant Tupac, Dr. Dre and West Coast hip-hop. On August 14, the label releases a different kind of record: October London’s R&B album “Love Me For Me”, introduced by the single “Your Girl”.
Nineteen years after Love/Hate, Terius “The-Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant made a sequel by chasing down the exact microphone he used in 2007 — while deliberately avoiding repeating a single sound.
From the archive · Jazz · August 1
On September 19, 1955, Erroll Garner played an out-of-tune piano in a school hall by the sea. The recording nobody meant to make became one of the best-selling jazz albums ever.
Jazz · New releases · August 1
Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist Mary Halvorson first played together in her Brooklyn apartment in 2009. Sixteen years and two abandoned albums later, they finally got it right.
Connor Sobieri wrote part of his debut album in a hospital room, six months unable to touch his saxophone. He called the record First Steps.
Connor Sobieri, a 23-year-old alto saxophonist based in New York, has just released “Lost Ones,” the first track off his debut album First Steps, arriving October 21. The song, he says, is about the feeling of the rug being pulled out from…
Lithuania · Jazz · August 1
The second album by the Lithuanian-born, Copenhagen-based singer is all standards, and not one of them rare — songs you have heard a hundred times.
Jazz · New releases · July 31
After a decade of occasional performances together, Joseph Alessi’s trombone replaces the saxophone in his brother’s quintet.
On Coherence, the drummer’s regular band is joined by Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin and, on one track, Snoop Dogg.
Fifteen songs written out note by note before anyone touched a key, most of them played in isolation from each other. DOMi and JD Beck’s second album, “WHO ASKED?”, arrives July 31 without a single marquee guest on the cover.
Fifteen songs, the better part of an hour, eighteen months of work in a home studio in Dallas — and much of what you hear on the record was never played in the same room at the same time. DOMi and JD Beck built their second album, “WHO…
Soul · New releases · July 31
With the Internet, lyrics came last. On “Oh Yeah?”, Lacy reversed the process.
World · New releases · July 31
Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara’s album Massa hit No. 1 on the Transglobal World Music Chart in July 2026. One song on it is addressed straight to her late father, and lets a hunter’s harp finish the sentence.
From the archive · Jazz · July 30
On June 25, 1961, the Bill Evans Trio recorded a conversation between piano and bass that jazz had never quite had before. Ten days later, one half of that conversation was dead.
Jazz · New releases · July 30
On August 7, Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin, and 9th Wonder bring their joint project Dinner Party back with a new album, Watchu Bringing? — their first new material in three years.
Four names that, taken one at a time, have not needed an introduction for years. Saxophonist Kamasi Washington, pianist Robert Glasper, and producers Terrace Martin and 9th Wonder sat down together in 2020 and called the result Dinner…
Soul · New releases · July 30
When wildfires took Masego’s Los Angeles home in January 2025, he was on another continent, giving instructions over the phone. What he chose to save became the seed of his third album, “Fix Your Face.”
Jazz · From the archive · July 29
Four Alice Coltrane cassettes spent forty years passing from hand to hand. Now they arrive the way she left them — synthesisers included.
From the archive · New releases · July 29
A double LP gathers Steven Hall recordings made from the early 1980s through 2025. It is not four decades of silence but four decades without a tidy release schedule.
Jazz · New releases · July 29
A new album of songs written across twenty years, with guests who once took her phrasing as their reference point.
An album whose songs were written across twenty years is usually called a compilation. “The Wise Ones” is not being called one. Out on 11 September via Edition Records, its eleven tracks set new Gretchen Parlato writing beside older pieces…
AI and music · July 29
A man spent years listening to his own songs at the expense of real musicians. He is sentenced in Manhattan on 29 July.
From the archive · Soul · July 28
D’Angelo and Questlove spent four years refining what other producers rushed to correct: a pulse that lands almost imperceptibly late.
Jazz · World · July 28
Charles Lloyd’s “Sangam & Friends” came out on 24 July. The sessions were cut in February 2009, and nobody ever went back to finish them.
Soul · New releases · July 28
Blue Note releases Meshell Ndegeocello’s “Synonym” on 2 October. All fifteen tracks are duets, and the pairings follow a single principle.
Ndegeocello’s third Blue Note album arrives on 2 October with fifteen tracks, every one of them a duet. One rule holds the pairings together: the two voices belong to people who identify as the same gender, or who sit in a similar place on…
Jazz · New releases · July 28
Blue Note releases Los Angeles pianist Kiefer’s debut “Memory Bomb” on 25 September — the same day the label puts out a Sonny Clark trio set.
Jazz · New releases · July 27
Branford Marsalis could have marked the centenary with fast notes. Instead he chose the 1963 album with a singer on it, and woke up one morning with the name Dianne Reeves.
AI and music · July 27
In June, more than half of everything uploaded to Deezer was machine-generated. The listening figures tell a stranger story than the upload figures do.
Soul · From the archive · July 27
A million pounds, a studio in Encino, and a list with Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Prince on it. Thirty-three years later, ninety minutes of tape show what was actually happening in the room.
In July 1992 the most famous singer in the world was at work in Dave Stewart’s Chapel Studios in Encino, and the plan was for him not to sing. The project was called The Voice of Reason by the Trojan Souls: George Michael would write and…
Jazz · World · July 27
Blue Note releases Linda Sikhakhane’s “LINDA” on 4 September. His mentor produced it; his brother plays the trumpet.
World · Soul · July 26
Cape Verde’s World Cup run sent people looking for the islands' music. What they found was a generation that no longer needs anyone’s permission to sing.
New releases · July 26
Michael Stipe has released “Hum Desiderata” — a 1927 poem read over an instrumental. You cannot find it where you normally look for music.
From the archive · July 26
The most famous bass intro in the world nearly got cut by its own producer. Dancing won.
In 1982, at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles, Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson argued over 29 seconds. That is the length of the “Billie Jean” intro — drums and bass, no vocal. Jones held the producer’s line: radio does not wait, the intro…
World · July 26
Bill Fontana taped silver thimbles onto them and let the cathedral hear what the bells hear when nobody touches them.
Jazz · Soul · July 25
Oscar Brown Jr. would have turned a hundred on 10 October. Amber Weekes releases an album of his songs on 7 August — a tribute record made by someone who knew the man, not just the catalogue.
Jazz · New releases · July 25
Kenny Beats says that if you catch the production tricks, the production has failed. FATHERS is a record where testing that is harder than it sounds.
Amid strings, horns and three keyboard players, one reviewer most wanted to hear Zuraitis alone at the piano.
In 2024 Nicole Zuraitis won the Grammy for best vocal jazz album — with a record of nothing but her own songs. In a field where most prizes are built on standards written by dead men, that is unusual enough to be worth a sentence. The new…
AI and music · July 25
Since 15 July, fully AI-generated tracks earn nothing on TIDAL. You can still listen to them.
Jazz · New releases · July 24
It began with an unplanned sit-in: Nicholas Payton played a Coltrane theme over a house groove, then proposed a record to the band that same night.
From the archive · Soul · July 24
The most famous chorus of 1978 means nothing at all. Which is exactly why it works.
World · New releases · July 24
Dalia Stasevska opened this summer’s Proms season in London. A few years earlier, in the same months, she was driving a van into Ukraine.
Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska led the opening night of the Proms in London this summer — one of the rooms where classical music decides what counts as important. Her biography carries a less ceremonial line too: in the first months of…
Four Canadians drove thirty hours to Newfoundland to record church organs. They came back with a record in which the empty rooms are also playing.
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