Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonIn bringing together an 85-year-old CBE, a sax-playing child of the expressionist 1960s who has exported his unique sonic language to the world, and a drummer, teacher and record-label founder devoted to British music, the Vortex might... more info

Guardian Music — (Matchless)Last year at Waterloo's Network Theatre free-jazz and improv percussionist Eddie Prevost began the series of encounters that gives this set its name – Jason Yarde and John Butcher are among the guests on upcoming volumes. But this May 20... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz percussionist whose drumming combined intensity with restraintThe percussionist Tony Marsh, who has died of cancer aged 72, was an inspired collaborator, combining intensity with restraint and stroking the drums more than he struck them. He work... more info

Destination Out — LA LEGGE E’UGUALE PER TUTTI VORTEX WALTZ Laboratorio della Quercia Laboratorio della Quercia Horo : 1978 Alberto Corvini, Enrico Rava, Kenny Wheeler, trumpet; Danilo Terenzi, Roswell Rudd, trombone; Massimo Urbani, Steve Potts, alto sax; Steve Lacy... more info

Guardian Music — Are children more receptive to 'difficult' music? Pop (and definitely not classical) critic Alexis Petridis took his five-year-old daughter Esme to Whitstable to find outWhitstable's Off the Page festival is not an event that goes out of its way to a... more info

Guardian Music — Pair are among first signatories of Occupy Musicians, a campaign supporting movement against income inequalityLou Reed and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello are among the first signatories of Occupy Musicians, a campaign supporting Occupy Wall S... more info

Guardian Music — The Rapture, On tourAs amazing as their synthesis of punk and funk was, the two elements were always at war within the music of the Rapture. Emerging under the aegis of James Murphy's DFA records, their House Of Jealous Lovers single honoured their o... more info

Guardian Music — (FMP Publishing)Germany's Free Music Production label grew out of the New Artist Guild co-operative in the 1960s (when else?), and recorded most of the legends of European and then American free-improvised music before legal battles and ownership fig... more info

Guardian Music — In the penultimate blog of this series on jazz landmarks, we turn again to a contentious figure of the sceneI must be getting sentimental about the impending finale of this series on jazz landmarks. The mostly constructive comments of readers over th... more info

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