Stewart Smith is back with all the juice you need to keep your jazz inhaler vaping: reviews of new albums from Mats Gustafsson, Robert Glasper, Donny McCaslin and Forebrace, along with a round-up of UK and US releases you might have missed over the summer months
Stewart Smith is back with all the juice you need to keep your jazz inhaler vaping: reviews of new albums from Mats Gustafsson, Robert Glasper, Donny McCaslin and Forebrace, along with a round-up of UK and US releases you might have missed over the summer months
Stewart Smith explores the scene popping up around Glasgow, and particularly the Glorious Traces collective, and takes a look at what the city has to offer as an alternative to the increasingly negative landscape surrounding London's cultural scene. Photos courtesy of Eleni Avraam
Stewart Smith explores the scene popping up around Glasgow, and particularly the Glorious Traces collective, and takes a look at what the city has to offer as an alternative to the increasingly negative landscape surrounding London's cultural scene. Photos courtesy of Eleni Avraam
Stewart Smith once again takes a long draught from the jazz chalice as his Complete Communion column looks at how Kendrick Lamar is spreading the jazz gospel as he reviews Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette, Cactus Truck, Alex Ward Quintet and Kit Downes
Stewart Smith once again takes a long draught from the jazz chalice as his Complete Communion column looks at how Kendrick Lamar is spreading the jazz gospel as he reviews Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette, Cactus Truck, Alex Ward Quintet and Kit Downes
It's a full month for Complete Communion as Stewart Smith previews the EFG London Jazz Festival and Glasgow's GIOfest VII, and reviews some excellent records wherein jazzheads team up with purveyors of racket and noise Dead Neanderthals and Kid Millions
It's a full month for Complete Communion as Stewart Smith previews the EFG London Jazz Festival and Glasgow's GIOfest VII, and reviews some excellent records wherein jazzheads team up with purveyors of racket and noise Dead Neanderthals and Kid Millions
Jerskin's second album Once Upon a Time... In Shropshire is a novel album of country death songs, country life songs and country love songs. But why did it take so long and how does it fit in with his growing reputation as a composer for films? Words by Robert Davidson. All photography by Tim Gutt. CW: Contains mention of suicide
With their new album Plastic Anniversary, the exploratory sonic duo marks 25 years of life and work via the use and abuse of petroleum products. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett called up Matmos member Drew Daniel to ask about it all
The mesmerising music of Rafał Iwański, both in his long-running duo HATI and solo as X-Navi:Et, channels his fascination with percussive and ritual instruments and trance states. Ahead of his performance at Unsound New York as half of Kapital, he speaks to Rory Gibb about resonance, improvisation and the sounds of the cosmos