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Amália Rodrigues: A Beginner's Guide

Pleasure, pain and poetry – the ‘Queen of Fado’ gave Portugal its soundtrack during a turbulent 20th century. Chris Moss looks back over Amália’s career

A world of jazz and beyond at Poland's Jazztopad

As jazz festivals around the world start to embrace international sounds, Martin Longley got to grips with the eclectic line-up of the Jazztopad festival in Wrocław

A Song for Freedom: Lemez and Maksym’s Tribute to Ukrainian POWs

A new campaign, The Stronger We Become, are releasing their first track to raise awareness of the situation for Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees

Sarod | Musical Instrument Guide (with Soumik Datta)

Soumik Datta reveals to Simon Broughton the secrets of his innovative, go-faster sarod

Al-Qasar interview: “We live in a world of very complex identities, with multinational families and lots of migration”

French-American musician and producer Thomas Attar Bellier talks about his sizzling new psych-rock unit who are fusing North African trance and Middle Eastern melodies with elements of alternative rock

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Meeting Asha Puthli: “I have a four-octave range from my classical training and I just went for it, this spaced-out singing”

Undeterred by expectations, Asha Puthli had a vision of uniting Indian classical music with jazz, heading to New York and getting a job singing with a free-jazz icon. It was the beginning of an adventurous, incendiary and unparalleled career