CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Palestinian multi-instrumentalist DIRAR KALASH

Chris Searle speaks to former bandmate CHRIS BISCOE about the committed socialist jazzman, Mike Westbrook

CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician

Chris Searle speaks to bassist PAUL ROGERS

Chris Searle speaks to Syrian/French flautist NAISSAM JALAL

New releases from Otherlands Trio, Isabelle Bodenseh, Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet

CHRIS SEARLE talks to the celebrated saxophonist COURTNEY PINE

CHRIS SEARLE relishes the relevance and sheer poetic dexterity of an excellent imagining of the divided destiny of the Levellers

CHRIS SEARLE urges you not to miss Mark Sanders’ three night residency at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Nepali jazz drummer ANMOL MOHARA about tradition, culture, identity, migration and belonging

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Nicaraguan guitarist OMAR RIOS MELENDEZ

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

Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist LARRY STABBINS

CHRIS SEARLE urges you not to miss two powerful performers playing three nights that will celebrate the great pianist/composer Thelonious Monk

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Filipino-US saxophonist JON IRABAGON about the threat of AI in the time of Musk and Trump, and how an artist can respond

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

Reviews of the Neil Charles Quartet, the Freddie Hubbard Quintet, and the Olie Brice Quartet

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Chris Laurence, bassist and bandmate of saxophonist TONY COE

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to vocalist Jacqui Dankworth

CHRIS SEARLE pays tribute to the late South African percussionist, Louis Moholo-Moholo

Re-releases from Bobby Wellins/Kenny Wheeler Quintet, Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippet/Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Charles Mingus Quintet

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Ethiopian vocalist SOFIA JERNBERG

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist and retired NHS orthopaedic surgeon ART THEMEN

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson

CHRIS SEARLE urges you to hear the US saxophonist Joe McPhee on livestream tonight

Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist XHOSA COLE and US tap-dancer LIBERTY STYLES

CHRIS SEARLE wallows in an evening of high class improvised jazz, and recommends upcoming highlights in May