Guardian Music — Philip Larkin loved trad jazz. John Harris grew up thinking nothing before bebop was worth listening to. So he tried to discover the appeal of Ellington and Basie"I can live a week without poetry," Philip Larkin said in 1965, "but not a day without j... more info

Guardian Music — What happened when one of jazz's top stars – Tim Garland – was asked to write a concerto for the London Symphony Orchestra? Organised chaosIt's not long in conversation with saxophonist and composer Tim Garland before it seems necessary to place ... more info

Guardian Music — Owner of Ray's Jazz Shop, a mecca for record collectorsAt a time when the jazz avant garde of the 1960s was further dividing the eternally factional and quarrelsome world of British jazz, Ray Smith became the source from whom London's more adventurou... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Jizzrelics said... Eric Dolphy - The Complete Uppsala Concert http://jizzrelics.blogspot.com alonsii said... L'ARBRE DE LES 1000 MÚSIQUES,PROGRAMA 17-2-11 1-TIM STORY-After 4 O'Clock 2-Armenian Navy Band-agua natural seeds 3-Art ceilidh-Dos tontos ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Musicômano said... Músico: Tommy Bolin Disco: Live At The Jet Bar Ano: 1976(*) Gênero: Blues Rock, Hard Rock http://roquebrio.blogspot.com Jeffrey Siegel said... Don't miss a pair of new podcasts on Straight No Chaser! Podcast 213 is a conversati... more info

Guardian Music — The New York Dolls' pioneering punk guitarist on his favourite ever record, his guitar heroes, and the song he first fell in love toTHE TRACK THAT REMINDS ME OF GROWING UP IN FRANCE Don't You Just Know It, Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns (1958)I w... more info

Guardian Music — 'Singing is like golf. You can flounder over things for years – then a pro sets you straight in minutes'What got you started?My dad was a piano player and singer, and sang to his children – all seven of us. He made a lasting impression on me, tho... more info

Guardian Music — US photographer and film-maker who chronicled the heyday of folk and jazzGeorge Pickow, who has died aged 88, was a photographer and film-maker whose images were used on many album covers in the US – jazz, folk and pop – and who made a significa... more info

The Independent — To generations of British television viewers, Billy Taylor, who has died at the age of 89, will be known as the pianist who composed the theme to the BBC's film review show hosted by Barry Norman and then Jonathan Ross. But the American was also a pr... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz pianist who became the music's most articulate and widely heard advocateCharles Seeger, father of the folk singer Pete Seeger, once told a revealing jazz story which he heard on a 1950s trip to a conference of musicologists. An eminent delegat... more info