Soul Sides — (Editor’s note: Over the next few weeks, you’ll see some new voices joining us here at Soul Sides. Today is the debut of Dave Ma, who runs his own outstanding music blog, Nerdtorious, and he’s offering his take on the new 2-CD anthology chro... more info

Topix — Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for television and movies and worked with legendary musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, has died. more info

Guardian Music — Read a collection of the finest writing on jazz from Guardian and Observer critics, including Kingsley Amis and Benny GreenFrom early appearances in London in 1917, to boogie woogie, bebop and beyond, the Guardian and Observer have been writing about... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offPhantom Limb The Pines What modern pop has lacked recently is a band that fuses country and soul. Led by the wonderful Yolanda Quartey, Bristolians Phantom Limb do the job w... more info

Mercury News, California — ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Sam Rivers, an internationally-known jazz musician who played with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, has died. more info

Guardian Music — Joe Loss vocalist and creator of the secret lemonade drinkerThe jazz and pop musician Ross MacManus, who has died aged 84, was a featured singer in the 1960s with Britain's leading dance band, the Joe Loss orchestra, and in the 1970s the creator of t... more info

Guardian Music — (Storyville, 7 CDs + DVD)Last summer, Universal Records and Sony BMG released Louis Armstrong's great recordings from the 1920s to the 1960s in a 10-disc collector's box. One of its highlights was a 1956 live show by the trumpeter with his postwar Al... more info

Guardian Music — (Dreyfus) Roy Haynes might be 86, but on this disc the legendary jazz drummer (who has played with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny and beyond) coolly occupies the driving seat with collaborators young enough to be his grandchildren. Hayne... more info

Guardian Music — Early 1940s: Number 15 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicA contemporary of the great jazz pianist/composer Thelonious Monk once remarked that with a name like that, all he had to do was "hustle". But in the 1940s, Monk wa... more info

Guardian Music — Versatile pianist and a member of a musical dynasty, he bridged the jazz generationsThe distinguished African-American pianist Ray Bryant, who has died aged 79 after a long illness, became a fixture of the jazz mainstream after enjoying a measure of... more info