Dec 13, 2021Features‘Even the reindeer were unhappy’: life inside Britain’s worst winter wonderlandsPolystyrene snow, MDF grottos, stomach-churning rides and Santas with scratchy fake beards: as Christmas nears, ’tis the season for...
Dec 3, 2021Interviews‘Evolution is part of tradition’: musician Makaya McCraven on the future of jazzEach day we have so many choices to make and we are constantly improvising them, just like playing jazz,” says the drummer-composer...
Nov 24, 2021InterviewsBalwinder Singh Rana: the fearless anti-fascist who fought racism at work – then on the streetsBalwinder 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, 2021Interviews‘I reach a trance state. I’m almost sleepwalking’: the mystical jazz of Nala SinephroUnder a cold, moonlit sky in south London’s Horniman Museum conservatory, Nala Sinephro is cradling her pedal harp like a child softly...
Oct 27, 2021InterviewsDuval 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...
Jul 14, 2021Features‘An American riddle’: the black music trailblazer who died a white manThere are, according to the academic Emmett Price, “six degrees of Harry Pace”. He is referring to the man born in 1884 who founded...
Mar 24, 2021FeaturesWe stan together: the wonderful world of Instagram TV fan pagesA cursory scroll through the Explore page on Instagram can feel like a visual assault: sponsored content, taunting influencer pictures...