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Reissue Of The Week: John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme Live In Seattle

Up, Up, And Away: Moor Mother’s Black Encyclopedia Of The Air

On The Way To A Love Supreme: John Coltrane’s Blue World

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Charisma & Alienation: James Lavelle’s Meltdown Festival Reviewed

Elation, Elegance, Exaltation: Reimagining John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme

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Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Ahmed Abdul-Malik

Daniel Spicer casts an eye over the career of pioneering jazz bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik and suggests ten tracks that confirm his status as a crucial, if undersung, cross-cultural innovator
Art

Made In The Dark Room: Roy DeCarava Captures Mid-Century New York

With the artist's first exhibition in London for thirty years, Selected Works, currently open at David Zwirner, Amah-Rose Abrams explores the legacy of photographer Roy DeCarava and speaks to his widow, the art historian Sherry Turner DeCarava
Black Sky Thinking

How did a Major Label Manage to Lose a John Coltrane Record?

The story behind the newly discovered 1963 recordings, released this week, helps us to hear the music and to understand how Coltrane reshaped jazz
Black Sky Thinking

Vinyl Staircase: July In Record Collecting Misery By John Doran

A halo of coffee mugs? An impassable wall made from Kraftwerk box sets? The OST so frightening it can't be listened to in the dark? It can only be the return of Vinyl Staircase - John Doran's melancholy death march through this month's black wax
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Alice Coltrane

Stewart Smith takes a look at the astounding back catalogue of Alice Coltrane and finds ten points of entry for the curious
Black Sky Thinking

Praise Be! The Quietus’ Favourite Religious & Spiritual Records

Ahead of the Easter weekend, the Quietus writers select a huge list of their favourite religious and spiritual records, from across the spectrum of belief systems, denominations and musical styles
Black Sky Thinking

Love’s Secret Ascension: Coil, Coltrane & The 70th Birthday Of LSD

Author and new Quietus writer Peter Bebergal celebrates the original synthesis of LSD with a thoughtful look at acid and transcendent, magickal music

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 30

Baker's Dozen

Lie Down and Listen: Aaron Turner’s Favourite Albums

Upon the release of Sumac’s new album The Healer, Aaron Turner speaks to Jon Buckland about creating communities, having a good lie down, and the 13 records that shaped his life
Baker's Dozen

Magic Moments: Michael Head’s Baker’s Dozen

In a year that sees him finish his 'magical memoir', a new album with The Red Elastic Band and a career-spanning homecoming show in Liverpool, former Shack, Strands and Pale Fountains frontman Michael Head takes Patrick Clarke through the 13 records that shaped him
Baker's Dozen

Fertile Ground: Lol Tolhurst’s Baker’s Dozen

Following the publication of his goth chronicle and ahead of a new album with Budgie and Jacknife Lee, The Cure's founding drummer Lol Tolhurst takes Julian Marszalek through his favourite records, from Jimi Hendrix to Low via the wonders of Trout Mask Replica
Baker's Dozen

Jazz Is My Religion: Idris Ackamoor’s Baker’s Dozen

In a sprawling Baker’s Dozen, longstanding jazz legend Idris Ackamoor tells Siobhán Kane about the way Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Bob Marley and more have inspired his life and work
Baker's Dozen

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music: Benjamin Myers’ Favourite Music

Music journalist-turned-novelist Benjamin Myers shares the music that made him a writer from The Slits to Slipknot – and why almost all of it is impossible to write to…
Baker's Dozen

Master Blaster: Kevin Richard Martin’s Baker’s Dozen

The artist also known as The Bug talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about the records that changed his life, from anxious encounters with African Head Charge in Weymouth to being blasted by Swans at the ICA
Baker's Dozen

Ancient Rhythms, Global Rhythms: Pete Wareham’s Favourite Records

Via his ensemble Melt Yourself Down, saxophonist Pete Wareham reimagines the rhythms and melodies of Nubia. Adam Quarshie caught up with him to discuss some of his influences, from the music of Egypt and Sudan to the music of East London.

Baker's Dozen

Ongoing Adventures: Rachel Unthank’s Favourite Albums

Jude Rogers speaks to Rachel Unthank about her abiding love for and political importance of maintaining the folk tradition... but explains she wasn't averse to a bit of Faith No More when it all got too much. This week's Baker's Dozen.
Baker's Dozen

Vanity Subjects: Baxter Dury Picks His 13 Favourite Albums

Patrick Clarke meets Baxter Dury in his West London flat, to talk about his favourite albums from Frank Ocean to his father, and an excruciating encounter with Lou Reed and Lana Del Rey
Baker's Dozen

Gorgeous: Graham Massey Of 808 State’s Favourite Albums

Graham Massey guides Julian Marszalek through 13 favourite albums, from Santana to Bowie, Gong, Magma, Miles Davis, and the time he went out for kebabs with Marshall Allen
Baker's Dozen

Beautiful & Sad: Ben Watt’s Favourite Albums

As he releases a new solo record, Ben Watt of Everything But The Girl guides Jude Rogers through his Baker's Dozen, from Frank Ocean to Paul Simon and Bobby Womack to why male music critics were afraid of Joni Mitchell
Baker's Dozen

Impulse purchases: Oren Ambarchi Jazz (Fusion) Baker’s Dozen

The musician, label head and self-described record obsessive has eyes bigger than his stomach in his own Proustian boulangerie of jazz and fusion records. By Jennifer Lucy Allan.

Baker's Dozen

The Marshall Suite: Cat Power’s Favourite Albums

Chan Marshall guides Diva Harris through 13 albums that have soundtracked her life, from stealing cars to heartbreak and escaping difficult times
Baker's Dozen

Learning Through Listening: Shabaka Hutchings Favourite LPs

In anticipation of the release of Sons of Kemet's latest LP, Your Queen Is A Reptile and their appearance at this year's Field Day Festival, saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings detailed the thirteen albums that shaped his experiences as both a man and a musician to Olamiju Fajemisin
Baker's Dozen

Beloved Transmissions: Mary Anne Hobbs’ Favourite Albums

Ahead of her curation at the Manchester International Festival, Mary Anne Hobbs guides Daniel Dylan Wray on an inspiring trip through 13 records that shaped her life
Baker's Dozen

Experimentalism Wrapped Around Pop: Barry Adamson’s Favourite LPs

Post punk polymath Barry Adamson guides Julian Marszalek around his favourite albums, from Baker's Staples like Iggy Pop and can to the Wu-Tang Clan, Ornette Coleman and Micachu. Photo by Jone Reed
Baker's Dozen

Weird Still Spills: Stella Mozgawa Of Warpaint’s Favourite Albums

The Warpaint drummer and prolific collaborator goes from Pharoah Sanders to Joni Mitchell via Steely Dan, Chaka Khan and Primus in collecting her top 13 albums, choosing those that "had altered the course of my life"
Baker's Dozen

Languages Inhabited: Teju Cole’s Favourite Albums

Following the publication of his first collection of essays, Known And Strange Things, the writer and photographer pens us his own Baker's Dozen, picking "as many kinds of albums that really mattered to me as possible"
Baker's Dozen

Thirteen Prayers: Kamasi Washington’s Favourite Albums

Before he embarks on a summer of touring following his excellent 2015 album The Epic, the saxophonist and bandleader makes some difficult decisions to give Paul Smith 13 albums that affected his musical approach
Baker's Dozen

Prophets Of Time: Nik Turner’s Favourite Records

The space rock luminary and former member of Hawkwind, Sphynx and Inner City Unit guides Sean Kitching through 13 instructive and inspirational jazz, rock and soul records that have shaped him and his music

Baker's Dozen

The Spirit Is The Thing: Irmin Schmidt’s Favourite Records

As the former Can man releases his Electro Violet box set this week, he boils his all-time favourites down to a 'records of the day' selection, taking Sean Kitching from albums to individual songs and classical compositions
Baker's Dozen

Psychedelic Meditation: Kurt Vile’s Favourite Albums

As he starts the UK leg of touring b'lieve i'm goin down…, the Philadelphian singer-songwriter goes from live free jazz to dry-humoured piano sketches in picking 13 albums that steered the sound of his sixth album
Baker's Dozen

Nicely Proposed, Coxy! Bradford Cox Of Deerhunter’s Favourite LPs

After we asked the Deerhunter and Atlas Sound man to pick his top LPs, Tristan Bath rang him in Atlanta and, over the course of a two-hour dog walk, had Bradford Cox talk through 13 albums of "accidents and starkness"
Baker's Dozen

No Reconciliation Necessary: Doug McCombs’ Favourite LPs

With the prolific bassist and guitarist and Tortoise and Brokeback founder about to release a new album, Works For Tomorrow, with Eleventh Dream Day, he gives Nick Hutchings a tour of his most seminal records
Baker's Dozen

At His Modjesty’s Request: Paul Weller’s Favourite Albums

Paul Weller is releasing a new album, Saturns Pattern, so we sent tQ film editor Mat Colegate off to meet his mod hero and bask in the glory of his sartorial prowess. Ah, yes, and find out about his top 13 albums as well
Baker's Dozen

Burnt Ends: Slackk’s Favourite Albums

The Liverpool-via-London grime producer and Boxed co-founder released his debut album, Palm Tree Fire, last month. Now, he talks Oli Marlow through his favourite records, taking in LPs, mixtapes, pirate radio sets and magazine cover-mounts. Slackk photograph courtesy of Mehdi Lacoste
Baker's Dozen

Pan Sonics: Mika Vainio’s Favourite Albums

Our series of articles curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin continues with a Baker's Dozen from Mika Vainio, solo artist and former member of Pansonic. He tells us about how the likes of Suicide, Neubauten, the Alex Harvey Band, King Crimson and more soundtracked a life of working in slaughterhouses and vegetarian restaurants
Baker's Dozen

“The Spirit”: Mike Watt Of The Missingmen’s Favourite Albums

Currently in the middle of a European tour, the Minutemen, Dos and Firehose founder pares down his record collection to give John Calvert his thirteen all-time top LPs

Baker's Dozen

The Golden Past: Marianne Faithfull’s Favourite Albums

Following the recent reissue of her landmark album Broken English, and in advance of her 50th anniversary as a performer next year, Marianne Faithfull tells Joel McIver about her 13 favourite LPs
Baker's Dozen

Air Force 13: Ginger Baker’s Favourite Albums

Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion are playing London's Jazz Cafe this week and are one of the first acts to be announced for next year's Field Day; in advance, the legendary drummer picks out his top 13 LPs

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