In January 2023, Tom Skinner and his ensemble performed material from his recently-released album 'Voices of Bishara' (Brownswood, IARC & Nonesuch, 2022) at London club “mu”— a venue founded by the curators at Brilliant Corners and named after the seminal Don Cherry live album. Their performance was augmented by three pieces by Abdul Wadud, whose 1977 self-released solo cello album, By Myself, was a primary inspiration for Voices of Bishara.

Margate-based US multi-instrumentalist Robert Stillman ruminates on what it is to be an ex-patriot American after 10 years in blighty, set to smoky (and free) jazz-blues piano and new agey chamber styles.