Nas, Kurtis Blow, Danny Brown, Shabazz Palaces, The Roots, El-P, Robert Glasper, No Limit…

128 pages… Stories include Makaya McCraven by Ayana Contreras, Sonny Rollins by Ashley Kahn, Amina Claudine Myers by Seymour Wright, Adolphe Sax by Harry Eddy, Ronald Snijders by Mike Bindraban, Puristamo Helsinki pressing plant photo essay by Mathias Foster. Introducing new columnist Mats Gustafsson; plus reviews…

Horace Tapscott, Tigran Hamasyan, Istanbul Scene, Isaiah Collier, Bill Frisell…

Donald Byrd, Lonnie Liston Smith, Charles Gayle by Seymour Wright, Anoushka Shankar & Arooj Aftab in conversation, Billy Harper, Sun Ra…

Mary Lou Williams, Tomeka Reid, Horace Silver, Julius Eastman, Matthew Shipp, Arooj Aftab…

Black Jazz Records, As-Shams, Nyege Nyege Festival, Alina Bzhezhinska, Carl Stone Gyedu-Blay Ambolley…

Dorothy Ashby, Don Cherry, Peter Evans, The Return Of the Queer Jazz Scene, Jimetta Rose, Asher Gamedze…

Petter Eldh, Oren Ambarchi, Sven Wunder, Robyn Steward, Jason Moran, Darius Jones, Carlos Garnett…

A Sun Ra special.
Writing by Francis Gooding, Mats Gustafsson, Rui Miguel Abreu, Stewart Smith, and Joshua Lane; and rare Arkestra photos by Guy Stevens.
Plus considerations of Larry Stabbins, Angélique Kidjo, Heli Hartikainen, Alan Wilkinson, Black Artists Group, and Mike Stern; and album reviews, book reviews, live reviews, a photo essay…