Hugely acclaimed for her recent Grammy winning Chamber Music Society and Radio Music Society albums, prodigiously gifted bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding has positively leapt off the beaten track for her latest project, Emily’s D+Evolution.
Eight years into their ever-questing and consistently creative existence, acclaimed British four-piece Empirical have recently adopted unusual tactics in a bid to alter the dynamics of the artist-audience relationship.
What exactly is the noise of two stars colliding? It’s this nebulous concept that underscores the haunting new recording, a cosmic rhythm with each stroke, by multi-award winning pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpet heavyweight Wadada Leo Smith.
The emergence of Los Angeles saxophonist Kamasi Washington as one of the hottest names in jazz – thanks to the avalanche of music he unleashed on his remarkable triple-disc debut album The Epic – has caused shockwaves on both sides of the Atlantic.
More than four decades after his death, the music of Wes Montgomery continues to illuminate the jazz guitar world like a beacon.
Charismatic jazz voice, actor, activist and sometime stand-up comic, Ian Shaw’s flamboyantly vibrant approach to songcraft continues to reveal itself in myriad forms, unravelling a canon of variegated vocal colour.
Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen returns with a new album, What Was Said, and trio featuring Afghan-German singer Simin Tander and fellow countryman Jarle Vespestad on drums.
Master guitarist Bill Frisell’s latest album, When You Wish Upon A Star, finds him continuing to refashion the emotions of his past by reimagining the music of cinematic classics such as Psycho and Once Upon a Time in the West, to deliciously bucolic effect.
Pianist, composer and orchestrator Mike Westbrook celebrates his 80th birthday this year by making a much-anticipated return to big band music with his latest album A Bigger Show.
Matthew Bourne and Franck Vigroux revisit a Kraftwerk classic "When you play electronic music, you have the control of the imagination of the people in the room, and it can get to an extent where it's almost physical.
