‘We have to fight – and I’ll do my part’: John Legend on Roe v Wade, Kanye West and his mother’s add
When he was 15, John Stephens of Springfield, Ohio, entered an essay competition run by McDonald’s for Black History Month. Asked “How do...
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May 12, 2022
Richard Jacques: ‘Orchestral scores in games provide such a human connection for the player’
Unlike typical teens, composer Richard Jacques was an early riser. Waking up with the dawn chorus was a necessity — not because his...
Apr 17, 2022
Tan France: ‘I was conditioned to think light skin was better’
When Tan France released his autobiography in 2019, it wasn’t the accounts of the constant racism he experienced growing up in Doncaster...
Mar 29, 2022
Immanuel Wilkins Preaches the Word
“My work is the intersection between spiritual practice and Black aesthetics,” Immanuel Wilkins says. “The two symbols I draw from are...
Mar 25, 2022
‘My music is singular to me’: Arooj Aftab, the brightest new star at this year’s Grammys
"Now I am a full-time artist, maybe I won’t just die of natural causes sitting at my office desk,” says a relieved Arooj Aftab. “Maybe...
Feb 24, 2022
Jeremy Pope: ‘I’m in the healing business, since art can change the way that you think’
When Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s debut show of collaborative paintings premiered in 1985, it was panned by the critics....
Jan 4, 2022
Music Always Remains : The Nubya Garcia Interview
Nubya Garcia is finally back on tour. After two years of coronavirus-related delays and endless rescheduling, the saxophonist and...
Dec 3, 2021
‘Evolution is part of tradition’: musician Makaya McCraven on the future of jazz
Each day we have so many choices to make and we are constantly improvising them, just like playing jazz,” says the drummer-composer...
Nov 24, 2021
Balwinder Singh Rana: the fearless anti-fascist who fought racism at work – then on the streets
Balwinder Rana was 16 when he first spoke to a white person. It was 1963, on a sunlit but freezing spring day, and he had just landed at...
Nov 17, 2021
‘I reach a trance state. I’m almost sleepwalking’: the mystical jazz of Nala Sinephro
Under a cold, moonlit sky in south London’s Horniman Museum conservatory, Nala Sinephro is cradling her pedal harp like a child softly...
Oct 27, 2021
Duval Timothy is using jazz to reckon with his heritage
“I like my records to sound like my life. That’s why I always creatively involve the people in it, even if they’re not musicians,” Duval...
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