The second album from the “supergroup” consisting of electronic producer Luke Abbott, Portico Quartet saxophonist Jack Wyllie and Triosk/PVT percussionist Laurence Pike, New Hymn to Freedom is an ...

This weekend one Scandinavia’s best jazz combos, Atomic, rolls into town for Friday and Saturday shows at Constellation. I wrote about the quintet’s latest album in my concert preview, but its members ...

Luke Abbott’s synth/sax/drums trio illustrates the links between London’s fertile jazz scene and longstanding psychedelic traditions in six vibrant, unedited improvisations. Save this story Save this ...

Job interviews for cathedral organists aren't like other music auditions. The art of improvisation, now lost on most classically trained musicians, plays a vital role in church music. Improvisation on ...

From working as a cloakroom attendant at Ronnie Scott's in London to performing on the club stage to a sellout audience with one's own quartet is quite a journey. It might sound like a corny plot from ...

What is it, I wonder, about the music of Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) that tugs so insistently on 21st-century imaginations? The Austrian-based composer was the foremost violin virtuoso of his day; ...

Rímur are songs in the unique Icelandic tradition of rhyming narrative verse. Transmitted orally for centuries, in the twentieth century they were recorded and transcribed by ethnographers and folk ...