New releases from Shearwater, Florry, and Navy Blue

STEVE JOHNSON speaks to London singer/songwriter MADDY CARTY

Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF

Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson

CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear

DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art

Re-releases from Iain Matthews, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and The Charlie Daniels Band

GEORGE FOGARTY is unsettled by a brilliant concert that stands on the shoulders of immigrant Jamaican heritage without reaching out a hand to the Jamaican people

New releases from Steve Swallow, Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts, and Ady Johnson

New releases from Simone White, Brass Funkeys, and Souad Massi 

STEVE JOHNSON relishes the inspirational nature of an event which combined great songs with historical narrative

ANGUS REID recommends that you discover a uniquely intimate community venue in central Edinburgh for an evening of beer and ambitious jazz