I came to this one cold. Eight albums as a leader, a Wikipedia entry, three Hamilton Music Awards on the shelf, and I had never heard the name. That is my failing rather than his, and I suspect a good ...

Four years ago, Blue Note and Universal Music Group Africa announced Blue Note Africa, an imprint with a stated remit to sign musicians from across the continent and carry them to a wider world. It ...

ACP Records is not a label of any kind I’m used to writing about. It belongs to Amherst College Press, the college’s scholarly publishing arm, and it applies the machinery of academic publishing to ...

Redshift Records has been issuing the work of living Canadian composers out of North Vancouver since 2007, the recording arm of a concert society founded in 2001 by Jordan Nobles and Mark Takeshi ...

I should own up to where I started back when this first came through a few weeks ago. The sleeve looked like a budget job, no physical edition surfaced anywhere, and I filed Donald Vega away as a name ...

Guitarist Mathieu Torres builds his identity around an engaging mix of technique and personality. His playing on Sanctuaire, his second album under his own name, is recognisable for successfully ...

Muna is the third album from LILJA, the group Oddrun Lilja leads, and it wasn’t made in a studio. Voss commissioned her to write for its 2023 festival, and she called the piece I — one in Roman ...

Gary Bartz took the NTU Troop into Decca Studios in New York across November 1970 and January 1971 and emerged with two volumes of Harlem Bush Music, issued on Milestone as Taifa and Uhuru and ...

Sun Chung left ECM and opened Red Hook Records in 2021 with Masabumi Kikuchi‘s Hanamichi, a solo piano session issued after the pianist’s death. Five years and ten catalogue numbers later comes Peace ...