Marty Robbins topped the US charts and had a UK Top 20 hit with this classic country and western tune, El Paso, back in 1959.

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Ezra Collective became the first British jazz band to make a splash at the Brits in 2025, winning Best Group and making headlines with their plea to save the nation’s youth clubs.

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Hackney girls Mel & Kim followed Britain’s first house single with the global chart-topper Respectable in 1987.

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Air came to fame with Sexy Boy in 1998 but made their debut three years earlier with this inventive piece of electronica on a compilation album for Source.

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Ebba Åsman’s smoky late-night jazz is adorned with crackles of electronica on this brief taster from the Swedish trombonist’s new album.

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Miles Davis’s quartet of albums recorded with his quintet in 1956 is regarded among the highlights of his stellar career. This comes from the final one, Steamin’.

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Retro soul duo Charles & Eddie followed up their chart-topping hit Would I Lie To You with this story of how they first met on the New York subway.

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Beirut return with a beautifully mournful and melancholy ballad about a mystical South Seas island paradise that vanished from the map.

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South London girl Joy Crookes channels the ghost of Amy Winehouse in her infectious summer song When You Were Mine, with its video shot in Brixton Market.

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