Ammar Kalia

This marriage of instruments is best when the full-band moments are stripped back to highlight the duo’s artistry

The San Francisco-based singer is the latest in a wave of artists winning acclaim for innovative reinterpretations of traditional South Asian music

With a marathon performance and album, the wildly ambitious Chromesthesia charts centuries of intercontinental music. Its creator explains why she’s asking big questions about the true owners of culture

The virtuoso jazz guitarist has worked with a string of legends, winning 20 Grammys in the process. He speaks on his beginnings as a jazz trumpeter, and still striving to improve at 70

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Known for their roles in stadium-filling band Snarky Puppy, pianist Bill Laurance and bassist/oudist Michael League’s disarming 2023 duo album Where You Wish You Were revealed a starkly beautiful new sound. As its follow up Keeping Company is released, Ammar Kalia speaks to the pair about how they turned up the quiet