Ammar Kalia

Ale Hop & Laura Robles – Agua Dulce The cajón contains a radical history. The box-shaped percussion instrument is now commonly used in...

“We played for three days straight with no notes on the page and no repeats. There were 12 musicians in the room, just listening and...

“I’m pretty damn persistent,” Marley Munroe laughs. “It’s been a long, often gruelling road, but I’m finally here.” Munroe, AKA Lady...

Over the past decade, saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings has established himself as one of the most powerful voices in British improvised...

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily – Love in Exile Since her 2015 debut Bird Under Water, Pakistani American singer Arooj Aftab...

It is 41 years since US trumpeter Terence Blanchard first took to the stage at London’s Ronnie Scott’s. In 1982, Blanchard was a young...

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...

Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters – Abri Cyclonique The voice of 69-year-old Guadeloupean singer Moïse Polobi is a uniquely powerful presence....

I used to watch an unhealthy amount of TV. A minimum of 24 shows per week for the best part of two years, to be precise, when I worked on...

A year into the pandemic, in early 2021, I was spending most of my time online. I sat and I scrolled – on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram...