Ammar Kalia

P at Metheny is pretty much everywhere. For the past four decades, the 70-year-old guitarist has been crisscrossing the globe, playing an...

Nubya Garcia is feeling more free than ever before. Spending much of 2023 and 2024 taking a break from her previous schedule of playing...

It has been just over a year since this writer last spoke to saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis for the cover feature in...

Over the past few years a rich seam of US-based artists has emerged, drawing upon and creating innovative fusions of classical South...

“If you ask people from the Arab world about classical music, the first thing that will come to their minds is Mozart, Beethoven and...

It has been over four decades since saxophonist Courtney Pine first emerged onto the British jazz scene and his motto has remained the...

“Being modern is often associated with becoming western,” says kora virtuoso and vocalist Sona Jobarteh. “What I’m trying to bring to...

The covers of saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s last two albums cast him as a towering, mythical force in music. On his 2015 debut, The...

The past decade has been a journey for Olof Dreijer. In 2014 he and his sibling Karin disbanded their avant-pop duo the Knife at the...

It’s six hours before showtime and a queue of teenagers already lines the street outside east London’s EartH arts venue. They are sitting...

The release of Aziza Brahim’s latest album, Mawja, marks the end of five tumultuous years. The Sahrawi singer’s previous LP, 2019’s...

It has been two days since Marc Veira, AKA Flowdan, woke up to a flurry of messages and missed calls congratulating him on becoming the...

Mandy Ogunmokun stands in the back garden office of a quiet suburban east London house, softly pointing out members of staff who work...

Warren Wolf is determined to do it all. More than 20 years into his career as a vibraphonist, drummer and composer, the Baltimore-based...

Yussef Dayes speaks like he drums: quickly, deftly and with intent. Leaning in and talking animatedly over a formica table-top in a local...

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...

There aren’t many jazz performers like Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara. With her hair artfully piled almost a foot above her head, the...

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...

“I’m constantly searching and pushing,” New York-based saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis says. “I don’t live my life by the...

Over the last 60 years, keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith has made an artform out of countering some of jazz music’s loudest heavyweights...