CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourite albums of the year

CHRIS SEARLE recommends an upcoming concert by the leading exponent of cross-cultural music-making in Britain

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Mexican/Uruguayan drummer GUSTAVO CORTINAS about the ecological conscience expressed in his new album

Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist and composer SOWETO KINCH

Chris Searle speaks to producer/film-maker RITA HARGRAVE about the new album Renegade Queens

CHRIS SEARLE relishes an account of the years when a black American music carried a message of anti-racism and class struggle

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to drummer WILL GLASER

New releases from Cuban pianist Aruan Ortiz, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, and London pianist Geoff Castle

CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a new book that makes working class history come alive in a true story of human flesh and aspiration

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to US pianist Paul Cornish

CHRIS SEARLE encourages you to go hear a landmark performance, and introduces some of the musicians

CHRIS SEARLE hears the ordeal of the Palestinian people in the improvised musicianship of a UK jazz trio