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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 29, 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...
Mar 25, 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....
Feb 24, 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...
Jan 4, 2022
‘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...
Dec 3, 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 24, 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...
Nov 17, 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...
Oct 27, 2021
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