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Got a couple of albums with some Christmas money: Eska's eponymous album and Kamasi Washington's The Epic - both excellent. Been playing Eska's a lot this week. There's really been some excellent music this year

If you like that sort of thing, you should also look out for Weather Report's early albums, particularly I Sing the Body Electric and, of course, Herbie Hancock's early bands (but if you're a Miles fan, you already knew that)

Just bought Arooj Aftab's Bird Under Water. She's a New York-based Pakistani singer and her album is one of the most haunting I've heard for a long while. It's a long way from the frantic Bollywood-style pop music and while it has elements of qawwali, it's not full-on sufi experience. Really...

This is great. Sounds a bit more like Tinariwen than any other Mali band I've heard ... but a bit more rocking, That's another album for the 'to buy' list. I can understand that you listen to the album on the commute but when do you write the reviews? Surely you can't do those on the train too

Yes, surprised to see so few obituaries for him - there were plenty of mentions for Lee and Moody, who were fine actors, but neither of them revolutionised their field in the way that Coleman did. I've been playing plenty this morning - why does it take someone dying to dig out old stuff?

Just bought Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, his tribute to mother and stepfather: a fantastic set of stripped-down songs with some particularly poignant lyrics. It's one of his best