Mike Barnes recalls meeting the singer whose music made his listeners get a bit too carried away

Rob Young pays tribute to the former Talk Talk frontman

The Art Ensemble Of Chicago frontman died on 9 January. Howard Mandel recalls several encounters with the musician, and a gig cancellation that had him dodging the collective for several years

In her memoir of the great US jazz drummer, educator and pharmacist, Val Wilmer recalls her visit to Alvin Fielder’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, where he introduced her to leading Civil Rights activists for her project to photograph the lives of black women

On the first anniversary of Murray’s death, Pierre Crépon pays tribute to the pioneering free drummer by documenting his early years as a leader on the international scene

Reflections on how the pianist and native New Yorker's connection with Africa went from symbolic to real

“Throughout the 80 year span of his life Kosugi followed an independently minded course with luminous clarity of intent”

To mark its release, fellow bass player and writer Clayton Thomas discusses the lasting legacy of Phillips’s 50 year old debut solo LP Journal Violone

Pierre Crépon recalls the life and work of the New York based jazz trumpeter who appeared on John Coltrane’s Ascension and performed alongside Rashied Ali, Pharoah Sanders, Giuseppi Logan, Paul Bley and others

“Nuriddin’s musicality, lucidity and crackling charismatic vitality as a poetic messenger accounts for why his best work can still throttle our synapses”

The Wire’s longtime US jazz correspondent visits the studio of engineer Rudy Van Gelder to check out three previously unheard Coltrane compositions

The Wire contributor on the life and work of the high volume composer

“The joy of shaping, forming and organising materials is at the heart of Taylor’s work... it is strange he should be pigeonholed as a ‘free’ player”

The Wire’s publisher zooms in on one bad riff as a way of entering the late pianist’s musical universe

Cecil Taylor died at his New York home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on 5 April 2018. He was 89

Tony Bevan recalls his years playing – and playing around – with the late free jazz drummer

Algoraves, homemade instruments, mechanical art and horned helmets: AlgoMech celebrates unmaking and experiments with music and technology

“His smile said: do the unthinkable, the unpredictable. Bring the world with you to a place of peaceful coexistence that celebrates the diversity of ideas and experiences," writes a former president of the AACM

“His equally radical presence is often missed. This is a mistake.”

Alto saxophonist Seymour Wright pays homage to the lessons learned from the man who helped set the pace of what was to come