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Track of the Week: ‘Cypher Nutria’ from Pharos led by Trevor Mires and Paul Dunlea

Recorded in America at Van Gelder's in New Jersey - shrine of shrines, the most revered jazz recording studio in history where John Coltrane's A Love Supreme was recorded in 1964. It's been an incredible year so far for Irish jazz with a string of top recordings and now this Irish-English-US collaboration adds to that purple patch led off by a very special track indeed.

Kokoroko, Tuff Times Never Last, Brownswood ***1/2

One of UK jazz's biggest crossover acts in recent years - the Kokoroko angle is sheer positivity sketched out by shimmering horn drenched vamps and an all the time in the world Afrobeat feel.

Dino Saluzzi, El Viejo Caminante, ECM *****

These "old wanderings" beautifully set for bandoneon and guitars take your breath away beyond genre. They are new today from the nonagenarian Argentinian lion in winter, Dino Saluzzi.

Jazz In Trump’s America Is Under Attack

Trump is no friend of jazz and more to the point the music is under attack again when artistic leaders like Jason Moran cease to have positions of prominence at leading cultural institutions in the States.