Ammar Kalia

Ammar Kalia For a weekend in July each year, a vast warehouse complex in the port city of Rotterdam becomes home to the biggest names in jazz.

For readers under the age of 30, Teletext will be a foreign concept. A window into a clunky proto-internet, the TV-based interface allowed viewers

Speaking at a Guardian Live event at Love Supreme festival, the band tell us about lessons with Tony Allen, mayhem in Lagos and why musicians should be ‘pillars of the community’

Ammar Kalia At Sussex's Love Supreme festival last weekend, Femi Koleoso and James Mollison of British jazz figureheads Ezra Collective

UK group Hejira coming to Syracuse International Jazz Festival

After beating Leonard Cohen to Canada’s biggest music prize and splicing dembow with classical, the cross-cultural artist is now confronting Colombia’s new president

Ammar Kalia When I speak to the Colombian Canadian musician Lido Pimienta , it's in the run-up to Colombia's presidential election, and she is worried.

The long-running event's 2026 edition hosts a diverse range of musical performances, plays, workshops and discussions

Ammar Kalia On paper, writer Jonathan Caren's Hit Machine has all the makings of a chart-topping smash.