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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 love an album that takes me on a journey, and Somehow It Will Be does exactly that. It unfolds with the freshness and quiet confidence of someone discovering their own artistic voice, inviting the ...

Scandinavian folk music and jazz have long shared a natural affinity. Both traditions value melody, space and the freedom to let musicians shape the music in the moment. On Väst, the debut from Cuadra ...

Few guitarists cast a shadow over modern jazz quite like Pat Martino. A master of astonishing technique, harmonic sophistication and soulful invention, his influence stretches across generations of ...

Hancestry arrives like a bolt of lightning, illuminating everything around it. Yet trumpeter Sean Corby has travelled a long road to reach this point. A formative encounter with Courtney Pine and the ...

Released following the death of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, Sangam & Friends serves as both a celebration of an extraordinary musical friendship and a poignant reminder of the profound connection ...