Guardian Music — Beak>, On tourIt takes Portishead 10 long and fairly painful years to make an album. Strangely, though, for Beak>, the project of Geoff Barrow, Portishead's disarmingly un-starry producer, the whole process seems a good deal less fraught. In fact, fo... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offGwilym Simcock Blues Vignette Ambitious double-album by young UK piano star Simcock, covering solo accounts of his own compositions and standards such as On Broadway and Bla... more info

Guardian Music — (Basho)British pianist Kit Downes, formerly of Empirical, is beginning to get the kind of enthusiastic attention Gwilym Simcock did on his emergence a few years before - but for a more economical jazz-derived style with a more audible connection to h... more info

Guardian Music — (Basho)Every step UK pianist Gwilym Simcock takes is an ambitious one: this double-album documents his jazz trio work with the Russian double-bassist Yuri Goloubev and the gifted young British drummer James Maddren, as well as solo performance on his... more info

Guardian Music — Who better to offer a guide to the best of this year's London jazz festival than the stars themselvesCleo Laine, singerChick Corea's gig with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (15 Nov) also on the bill would be a big one for me. We heard Bela by accident... more info

I Like Music — And The Voice Project, London Premiere at The London Jazz Festival, 21st November 2009 more info

All About Jazz — For the first time in its 20-year history, Cambridge's major music festival includes jazz within its diverse line up for this November's Festival. This year's featured jazz concert displays the talents of British jazz favorite, John Taylor, and one o... more info