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Guitar player’s latest album is a sprawling cinematic epic, if not always successful

Mike Hanrahan has a renewed taste for the road as the folk rockers return to Tradfest

The classically trained Welsh jazz pianist is lauded for his fearless musical explorations, but recording his latest album at home freed the 38-year-old from pressure

The English DJ and musician reveals his favourite books, films, visual artist and more

Also: piano trio series, Miles Davis vinyl listening club and the Latin American songexplored

For the acclaimed jazz innovator Pat Metheny, guitars were tools for creating music. Then one he first saw as a child came up for sale, and he had to have it

‘The building looks imposing, officious. Getting people in the door is a big thing’

STUART McCALLUM/MIKE WALKERThe Space Between ***Edition

After his friend and EST bandmate Esbjörn Svensson died in 2008, Öström stopped playing music. Three solo albums later, he is getting used to being a frontman