Warren Wolf: Beyond Vibes
Warren Wolf is determined to do it all. More than 20 years into his career as a vibraphonist, drummer and composer, the Baltimore-based...
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- Nov 13
Chasing the rhythm with Yussef Dayes
Yussef Dayes speaks like he drums: quickly, deftly and with intent. Leaning in and talking animatedly over a formica table-top in a local...
- Nov 13
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on his giant 50-song album: ‘I wanted to approach it like an experiment’
Chances are you have already heard Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s work. You may not know who the LA-based composer and strings player is, but...
- Nov 11
Jazz rulebreaker Hiromi: ‘The piano is a plane that can take me anywhere’
There aren’t many jazz performers like Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara. With her hair artfully piled almost a foot above her head, the...
- Sep 7
Seal on homelessness, hits and love: 'My father gave me one beating too many and I was out the door'
On his 60th birthday earlier this year, Seal thought he had died. Opening the door to a friend’s house, the singer was confronted by 200...
- Aug 9
James Brandon Lewis: The Storyteller
“I’m constantly searching and pushing,” New York-based saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis says. “I don’t live my life by the...
- May 5
‘People call me the godfather of fusion’: the return of jazz-funk keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith
Over the last 60 years, keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith has made an artform out of countering some of jazz music’s loudest heavyweights...
- Apr 17
Director Nida Manzoor: ‘For teenage girls, everything feels so intense it’s almost violent’
The muse can be a fickle thing to find, but Nida Manzoor’s inspiration has always been close to home. “My sister, Sanya, is only a year...
- Apr 13
Dave Okumu transforms the personal into a conversation
Dave Okumu is concerned about community. “Everyone is encouraged to go down a solitary road at the moment, where other people don’t...
- Mar 6
Jazz-soul singer Lady Blackbird: ‘I feel like I’m in my own biopic!’
“I’m pretty damn persistent,” Marley Munroe laughs. “It’s been a long, often gruelling road, but I’m finally here.” Munroe, AKA Lady...
- Feb 20
Actor Bukky Bakray: the Rocks star hitting the big time
At 15, Bukky Bakray was in drama class at school in east London, working her way through lines she can no longer remember, when she...
- Jan 9
Kumail Nanjiani: ‘It would take a lot of effort not to run away before every show'
At 44, the comic and actor Kumail Nanjiani is best known for playing different versions of himself. His 2017 breakthrough in the...
- Jan 5
Duval Timothy: Life in Colour
Inside a converted south London shopfront sits a strange piano. Stripped of its black lacquer, with legs chiselled down to minimalist,...
- Dec 16, 2022
Fousheé: ‘It’s not acceptable for a Black woman to be angry’
For the past eight weeks, US singer-songwriter Britanny Fousheé has been spending her evenings screaming into the faces of filming teens....
- Dec 6, 2022
Actor Anjana Vasan: ‘We Are Lady Parts is about embracing your weirdness’
Actor Anjana Vasan, 35, was born in Chennai, India, and moved to Singapore when she was four. In 2011, she relocated to Cardiff to study...
- Nov 28, 2022
Jacob Collier: ‘I have so many ideas that I call it ‘creative infinity syndrome’
“One hundred thousand voices all singing together in harmony – that’s what gets me excited,” Jacob Collier says. “It’s an anthem that has...
- Nov 16, 2022
Maral: Aural Histories
For producer and DJ Maral, sampling is a deeply personal affair. “I see myself more as a listener than a producer,” she reveals over...
- Nov 9, 2022
Tom Skinner on the Smile, Sons of Kemet and going solo: ‘It gives me a blank slate to explore’
It has been a head-spinning year for drummer Tom Skinner. He has been crossing the globe touring new albums simultaneously with London...
- Nov 9, 2022
‘This isn’t a clickbait story of a white family with a black kid’: Jimmy Akingbola on growing up in
It is a typically sunny Los Angeles morning, with light cutting through the blinds, when Jimmy Akingbola greets me on a video call from...
- Nov 9, 2022
‘We captured lightning’ – documenting jazz hero Roy Hargrove
From the start of their 28-year friendship, Eliane Henri knew trumpeter Roy Hargrove was a genius. “I was 17 when I went to see his first...
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