Guardian Music — (Nonesuch)This unaccompanied acoustic guitar album (recorded alone, late at night, and sounding like it) is the first Metheny has made in his four-decade career in which there isn't a single original. All 10 tracks (including Girl from Ipanema, the... more info

Guardian Music — (Basho)Last year, this world-class Anglo-US quartet (touring the UK until 23 June) first unveiled the breadth of its appeal – from byzantine contemporary bebop to raw, Hendrix-like guitar blues by way of Pat Metheny's lyricism and Gwilym Simcock's... more info

Guardian Music — Pizza Express, LondonThe word is that every night of the current UK tour by the Anglo/US quartet the Impossible Gentlemen has been different so far, and given the technical firepower of the individuals and their swashbuckling confidence, it seems lik... more info

Guardian Music — The Horrors, On tourIt was obvious when they appeared on NME's cover in 2006 in Victorian gaoler chic that the Horrors had something, although what that might be wasn't clear from the endearingly rubbish garage-goth rumble of their debut. However, th... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe great double-bassist and band-leader Charlie Haden not only helped invent free-jazz, but has sustained his Liberation Music Orchestra since the 70s as a jazz-and-politics band that doesn't wag a finger at you. A Barbican weekender... more info

Totally Fuzzy — After all the indie, pop, rock, electro, punk, post-hardcore yesterday, here's something to chill out to... in our daily FlashBack! feature, in which we revisit one of the past achievements of some of the world's greatest musicians. Lyle Mays (born... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ninth and Lincoln is a musical project aiming to marry Denver’s finest jazz players with new streams in the world of big band composition. Its repertoire bridges the gap between jazz tradition and modern musical forms, including chamber and electr... more info

Guardian Music — (Emarcy)Vibraphonist Gary Burton's latest guitar discovery, Julian Lage, has made an attractive follow-up to his Grammy-nominated debut, Sounding Point. Burton discovered Pat Metheny even younger than he did the twentysomething Lage, and his opinion ... more info

Guardian Music — (Edition)There are plenty of credible heirs to the sax legacy of the late Michael Brecker, but most mimic Brecker's hurtling virtuosity without adding much colour of their own. Marius Neset, the 25-year-old Norwegian saxophonist who surfaced in the U... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Let's be honest with ourselves. A lot of us here are very posh when it comes down to our "eclectic" musical preferences. And most of us can't be bothered with a lot of what is going on in places like myspace, bandcamp and other "indie havens". "U... more info