Guardian Music — (F-ire)In naming his second album after a cool swinger by the 1950s jazz-piano star George Shearing, but preceding its appearance with nine tracks from almost totally different music worlds, the British pianist John Turville reminds listeners that he... more info

Guardian Music — (Babel)Young British tenor saxophonist and composer Crockatt caught the ear of the cognoscenti for his Howeird album in 2009 – not least because his fellow Royal Academy alumnus Gwilym Simcock delivered some storming piano improvisations on it. Wit... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonFringe Magnetic, the young jazz and classical-strings ensemble, might be led by Jamie Cullum's right-hand man, Rory Simmons, but the band's dissonant and gothically genre-bending repertoire features no Sinatra crooning, no pop ballads... more info

Guardian Music — FMRThe contemporary guitarist and teacher Jez Franks and the saxophonist Tori Freestone are joined here by premier-league rhythm team Jasper Høiby on bass and drummer Ben Reynolds. Cash Cows hits all the right contemporary-jazz buttons in the ease w... more info

Guardian Music — (Loop)The 10-piece Fringe Magnetic is one of the most ambitious genre-bending enterprises operating under the umbrella of London's Loop Collective, which stages a five-day festival including this group at the Vortex from 17-21 February. Led by its pr... more info

Starpulse — Mekhi Phifer went straight from the end of ER to join the cast of Lie to Me. You saw him in the season premiere as special agent Ben Reynolds from the FBI. Now that the Lightman group helped his judge pass[...] Read more! more info

Altsounds — Tompkins Square has amassed a formidable catalog of acclaimed acoustic guitar recordings, from reissues of seminal works by Robbie Basho, Richard Crandell and Harry Taussig to contemporary masters James Blackshaw, Peter Walker and Brad Barr. The labe... more info