New York meets London via Manchester for our 15th anniversary opener: vibraphonist Jim Hart has established himself as one of the premier creative jazz musicians of his generation in the UK...

Leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra teams up with experimental film-maker and multi-instrumentalists for a cosmic journey, paired up with spiritual, modal explorations of post-Coltrane transcendental radiance...

With roots in Irish and Welsh folk, joined with reprobate delta blues traditionalists and Ethiopian-style rhythms, the band mixes old folk forms, blues grooves and jazz harmonies...