European progressive jazz-rock ensemble Soft Machine seems to have run through more lives than even the luckiest tomcat. They've been first-rate musicians at every incarnation, and it's heartening to ...

Soft Machine’s Theo Travis on tempting fate, revisiting a tradition, and adding a posthumous appearance by co-founder Daevid ...

Bill Nelson felt improv trio Orchestra Futura’s performances should never be released. His bandmates talked him round ...