Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offDoves The Man Who Told Everything There was a time when people thought Elbow deserved to be as popular as their fellow gruff, rain-soaked Mancunian songsmiths, Doves. Now,... more info

Guardian Music — (Blue Note)Less capricious than Django Bates's tribute to Charlie Parker last year, but just as inspired and rich in references, Joe Lovano's Bird Songs is not just a stunning celebration of Parker's music, but a salute to the sax giants – Sonny Ro... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Benny said... Daily Downloads, Mar 17.11 Jan Akkerman: From The Basement Black Uhuru: Complete Anthem Sessions David Bowie: Heroes David Bowie: Lodger David Bowie: Low Benny Carter/Dizzy Gillespie: Carter, Gillespie, Inc. Jing Chi: 3D Count Basie –... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Barbatrucmobile said... Vinylidyllique ! - Nintendo Teenage Robots (= Alec Empire) - "We Punk Einheit !" (1999, DHR) - Ekseption - "Classic In Pop" http://vinylidyllique.blogspot.com jeffen said... ** Sincerely, L. Cohen Volume One ** 01 Hallelujah ... more info

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Guardian Music — (ACT) Unaccompanied piano performance is a challenge 30-year-old Gwilym Simcock hasn't confronted since his childhood classical training, and one that's all the greater because it invites comparison with a significant personal influence: Keith Jarret... 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

The 9513 Country Music — You’d think that Hot Club of Cowtown would have recorded a Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys tribute album earlier in their twelve-year history, considering that they named their band in honor of Wills (and gypsy jazz pioneer Django Reinhardt’s Hot ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — This long-running Austin, Texas, trio salutes Bob Wills, one if its two primary musical influences (the other being the Gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli) on this sweetly unassuming, live-in-the-studio trip through 14 numbers fro... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, London"There's been a bit of a misunderstanding," pianist Django Bates brightly announced. "We thought we were guests of Evan's, and he thought he was a guest of ours." Contemporary-sax trailblazer Evan Parker had been invited to curate a fiv... more info