Releases from Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Maggie Nicols/Robert Mitchell/Alya Al Sultani, and Gordon Beck Trio and Quintet

The Bard stands with the Reformers of Peterloo, and their shared genius in teaching history with music and song

SUE TURNER is fascinated by a book that researches who the largely immigrant workforce were that built the Empire State

MARIA DUARTE and MALC McGOOKIN review Sirat, The Testament of Ann Lee, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, and All You Need Is Kill

STEVE ANDREW recommends a Marxist analysis of the long chains of production that global corporations exploit

MARY CONWAY relishes the period detail but misses the drama in this unsatisfactory dramatisation of the subjugated life of George Eliot

IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a mainstream scholar to the ranks of left-wing critique of US foreign policy