Richard Barrett is on a mission to make you a better blues player – with full audio examples and backing tracks

To mark Wanderlust ’s ‘Year of Culture’, our new series on the arts, crafts and traditions inscribed on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list begins by looking at why the ‘Portuguese blues’ still offers a direct line to Portugal’s soul

Works by Bach, Vivaldi and Marcello Amandine Beyer (violin); Gli Incogniti Harmonia Mundi HMM90276970 134 mins The communicative warmth and infectious vitality of Amandine Beyer’s performances will ha

‘We’re going to have a tonal centre and tap our feet, and that’s the way it is.’ Steve Reich is in full flow, talking to me from his home in New York. ‘The big break, the knife down the line, was betw

On entering a room containing a piano, what pianist doesn’t turn white at the command, ‘You can play – let’s hear you!’ You thought you were visiting friends, not giving a performance, so of course yo

ONE OF THE coolest and most badass-sounding things a guitarist can do is double a long, complex bass line an octave higher. This was my approach for the song “Dean Town,” which I recorded with Vulfpec