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US saxophonist who started his career with Sun Ra and John Coltrane and went on to find a more spiritual voice

The artist and film-maker talks about Black cultural history, Tupac Shakur, the evolution of dub and his remarkable cinema essays with the Black Audio Film Collective

The James Webb space telescope’s pictures are impressive – but disco and Daft Punk did it first

Other lives: Jazz and avant-garde music enthusiast who set up a charity to promote his favourite kind of music

LOS ANGELES — Though Estevan Oriol has never been a member, for most of Cypress Hill's 30-plus years as a group the photographer and filmmaker traveled with them. If co-founder B-Real did an onstage hit from their bong Excalibur, Oriol absorbed the cloud of secondhand smoke as his video camera…

CHICAGO — Patrons of South Side jazz clubs in the 1950s might have noticed something a bit different about pianist Sun Ra’s big band — slowly at first, then all at once. Their sounds became more far-out, the synthy buzz of claviolines and Wurlitzers replacing Ra’s usual uprights. Bit by…

Something old, something new, but all these albums deliver great music alongside excellent production.