Brooklyn Vegan — Jaga Jazzist at Oya 2009 (photo by Jan Erik Svendesen) Plenty of your hipper bands might vary their influences list with acts like Tortoise, Charles Mingus, and the Neptunes just to prove they are cool. With the risky, sprawling, and... more info

Guardian Music — 1959: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music1959 saw the release of several key jazz albums, each of which found new ways of developing and challenging the innovations of bebop. Dave Brubeck's Time Out transformed ... more info

Guardian Music — 1963: Number 31 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicArizona-born Mingus was one of jazz's greatest composers, a double-bass virtuoso, a challenger of racism inside and outside the white-run music business of his time, and ... more info

Guardian Music — 1984: Number 41 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicWhether inspired by Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Charles Mingus or Carla Bley, most big-band jazz still sounded American by the 1980s. But in 1984 came London's Loose Tubes... more info

Mjsbigblog — Casey Abrams – “Your Song” by Elton John – (Top 11 Redux)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnfEfW8x78gCasey Abrams & Haley Reinhart – – “Moanin” by Charles Mingus (Top 8 Results)  Haley Reinhart – “I Who Have Nothing” – (Top ... more info

Guardian Music — The lead singer of Hot Chip and About Group talks about his current favourite spinsI Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton I love this as much for the song as for the beautiful, fluid guitar lines that open it. A wonderful record.Follow Me by Aly-Us ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — mercurochrome said... YoungMossTongue is still Fall-tastic! THE FALL - The Fall Boxset 1976-2007 THE FALL - Slippy Floor THE FALL - Slates (Expanded) MARK E SMITH/ED BLANEY - Smith and Blaney thanks fuzz e. smith! http://youngmosstongue.blogspot.com ... more info

Guardian Music — Sage, GatesheadDebbie Harry is best known as the face of Blondie. She's slightly less well-known for her intermittent collaboration with Roy Nathanson, a stalwart of New York's free-jazz scene, who is famed for playing two saxophones at once and whos... more info

Guardian Music — Kids Are All Right star to take lead role in Low Down, a biopic based on a memoir by musician's daughter, reports sayMark Ruffalo is to play the jazz musician Joe Albany, who became one of the few white pianists to play with Charlie Parker and later ... more info

Guardian Music — PJ Harvey, LondonThough at times she's had a strangely mid-Atlantic kind of persona (part queen of the Delta blues, part farmer's wife), recently Polly Harvey has focused her attention closer to home. Her 2007 album White Chalk found her haunting Bri... more info