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With guests Kit Downes on hammond organ, and cellist Lucy Railton.
Jazz album of the month, in The Guardian: ‘an unusual path, combining spellbinding singing with wayward improv… Speak Low II foregrounds Cadotsch’s crystal-clear lyricism more than its predecessor without ever cramping the freedoms of her classy improvising partners. She brings a graceful accessibility to a personal and ingeniously offbeat setup.’

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

Gilles Peterson, Ingrid Laubrock, Hannibal Lokumbe, Takuya Kuroda, Spoken Word Free Jazz…

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

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…

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

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

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…

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…