Guardian Music — HubroBassist Mats Eilertsen is a sideman for pianist Tord Gustavsen on the acclaimed Restored Returned, as is Tore Brunborg, the saxist in Eilertsen's fine quartet here. These seductive, low-key themes, with their subtle buildups to restrained anthem... more info

Guardian Music — Town Hall, CheltenhamWhile the 2010 Cheltenham jazz festival had kicked in last week with Elaine Page singing standards, and the weekend included guest artistic director Jamie Cullum's sell-out show for the pop-angled Pursuit album, the event remaine... more info

Guardian Music — Kings Place, LondonOn the last night of the Jazz Scene Europe mini-festival at Kings Place, saxophonist Andy Sheppard shared the fruits of the post-1960s emancipation of jazz from US ownership that now embraces a host of regional variations.Sheppard ... more info

Guardian Music — MGMT, LondonWith MGMT, it's proved to be a case of "careful what you wish for". Their great Time To Pretend single was a fantasy about their – as yet hypothetical – lives as rock stars. And then look what happened! Though their response... more info

Guardian Music — Beak>, On tourIt takes Portishead 10 long and fairly painful years to make an album. Strangely, though, for Beak>, the project of Geoff Barrow, Portishead's disarmingly un-starry producer, the whole process seems a good deal less fraught. In fact, fo... more info