Guardian Music — Pizza Express Dean Street, LondonThe Pizza Express audience had been anticipating the alluring prospect of a dialogue between Norma Winstone (one of Europe's most admired vocal originals) and piano phenomenon Gwilym Simcock – a solo star who has la... more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, LondonThe graceful airborne implications of the name Steve Swallow might sound better fitted to the bouyancy of a ballet dancer than the earthbound stomp of a bass guitarist. But veteran American bassist/composer Swallow makes the ins... more info

Guardian Music — (Babel)Young British tenor saxophonist and composer Crockatt caught the ear of the cognoscenti for his Howeird album in 2009 – not least because his fellow Royal Academy alumnus Gwilym Simcock delivered some storming piano improvisations on it. Wit... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Radiohead, Noel Gallagher and Kasabian are among the acts that have been named early .Bookies William Hill have released an extremely early perdition for next year's potential Mercury Prize winner. Kasabain have been named favourite to pick up the aw... more info

Guardian Music — Singer's latest album, Let England Shake, takes prestigious award 10 years after her first triumphPJ Harvey on Tuesday night became the first artist to win the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize twice, after first winning it the day of the 9/11 attacks ... more info

Guardian Music — It's the most important day in the history of music! Or it's when a musician gets a prize while other people have something to eat. Either way, we'll be liveblogging the life out of it from 7pm5.04pm: It's Mercury prize time again! Those annual award... more info

Guardian Music — We asked you to review the albums shortlisted for tonight's Mercury prize and you delivered handsomely …Last week we asked readers to submit reviews of Mercury-nominated albums. We received an impressive response featuring some terrific writing. (R... more info

Guardian Music — Let England Shake is bookies' favourite for 20th Mercury prize, with King Creosote and Jon Hopkins emerging as dark horses• Listen to all the nominated albums and post your own reviews, and watch a series of exclusive performances in our studiosTh... more info

Guardian Music — Eight of the 12 nominees for Tuesday night's Mercury prize have visited the Guardian studios to play – watch them hereIn the two years since we started our How I wrote… live music sessions, we've looked at the Mercury prize shortlist and thought:... more info

Guardian Music — Listen to all the albums on the Mercury prize shortlist 2011 – and when you're done, why not post a review?Have you tried your hand at writing an album review for us yet? If not, here's the perfect excuse to get started, and if you have, well, why ... more info