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Emma-Jean Thackray’s Yellow LP is an essential work of cosmic jazz-not-jazz informed by club culture and unlike anything else around
Chicago-based duo Mind Maintenance discuss their devotional new album for Drag City Records with Gareth Thompson
A timely reissue of the George Otsuka Quintet’s 1975 live set by Wewantsounds is Japanese jazz as lockdown palliative
A spiritual and cosmic jazz edition with reviews of Cosmic Vibrations, Kahil El’Zabar, Sun Ra Arkestra and Enrique Rodríguez
Andrew Wasylyk’s Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation is another visionary record with plenty room to dream
Jazz pianist Greg Foat brings Symphonie Pacifique, his latest masterful concoction of jazz, library music and pastoral composition, to Strut Records
Australian instrumentalists Surprise Chef’s marvellous debut LP All News Is Good News recalls mavericks such as David Axelrod, Beastie Boys and Money Mark