German Afghan vocalist Simin Tander represents a new sound in the European jazz landscape: mysterious, narrative, tenderly beautiful yet also powerful, playful and impulsive. Simin moves her audience ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It begins with a violin keening like the wind of the album’s title over intermittent slaps of frame drum. Then ...

Tord Gustavsen, the lyrical and scholarly Oslo-born pianist, got big with a blend of pensive improv and Norwegian hymns, but lately he has moved closer to jazz. This album, however, finds him ...

Drummer Jarle Vespestad, vocalist Simin Tander and pianist Tord Gustavsen adapted Norwegian Lutheran hymns and translated them into Pashto for their new album "What was said." The trio will perform ...

Less is more. Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen has been sharing this credo with an international audience for a dozen years now, since his first album for ECM Records, Changing Places, became one of ...

Vocal improvisation rarely strays far from scat, so it's something worth celebrating when a voice emerges with a distinct vocabulary. Afghan/German singer/composer Simin Tander is such a voice, and ...