In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black ...

The drummer Kyasu has played in Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha among other ensembles. When he performs solo, he improvises wildly with just a snare drum. The Leeds date is a rare solo performance with a ...

The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498 ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo (10 March 1940–13 June 2025) June 2025 Louis Moholo-Moholo in The Wire 400, London, June 2017. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff & Guy Bolongaro ...

Wayne Shorter died on 2 March 2023, aged 89. Read Richard Cook’s survey of the saxophonist’s Blue Note albums from Night Dreamer to Schizophrenia in The Wire 11, January 1985 in our online library for ...

“Free jazz is a real reflection of the times and everything that’s going on [...] It puts beauty back into the world, it vibrates, I think it works on an anatomical level.” US trumpeter, composer and ...

The great US drummer died on 12 November aged 99. In 2000, Philip Clark interviewed him, discussing some of the stellar moments in a jazz life that traversed the entire history of the music and ...

Miloš Hroch: You've just returned from your cottage in the woods, where OK Box was partly created. What did the escape into the wild reveal to you? Ursula Sereghy: I still go there and try to spend ...

The promoter who helped change the landscape of experimental music in the UK in the 1960s and 70s has died aged 81. Read Phil England’s article on Schonfield and his Music Now organisation, which ...

The UK jazz and free music pianist died in February aged 81. As a tribute, we have made Julian Cowley’s 2010 interview in The Wire 318 free to read in our online library.

The American singer, guitarist and political activist died on 20 October aged 97. As a tribute we have made Emily Pothast’s 2023 interview with Dane free to read in our online magazine library.