Guardian Music — The London jazz festival starts on Friday 9 November, and here are our critics' picks of what to see – plus suggestions from performers including Robert Glasper and Gwyneth HerbertGuy Barker's Jazz Voices: Celebrating a Century of SongBarbican, Fri... more info

Guardian Music — Wu Legends, On tourEven the cover shoot for their debut album couldn't muster all nine members of the Wu-Tang Clan – an early indication of the band's ungovernable elements and the divergent paths its personnel were destined to follow. Now comes Wu... more info

Guardian Music — Lanterns On The Lake, On tourA band all about the atmosphere, Lanterns On The Lake's music isn't something that you listen to exactly, more something that descends like a spectacularly damp fog. Undoubtedly the effect is intended to be spooky and mov... more info

Altsounds — Gwyneth Herbert is an artist who continues to redefine (and defy) our expectations. A singer-songwriter with one foot in the jazz world and one somewhere in the future, with pierrot-dotted eyes, polka-spotted shoes and swanny whistle in hand she m... more info

Guardian Music — (Naim Edge)Last year's All the Ghosts album was a coming-of-age for Gwyneth Herbert, the autobiographical Hackney singer-songwriter who had sidestepped being marketed as a saleable jazz chanteuse to explore her own poetry, folk-song, variations on Ha... more info

The Telegraph — You can't help being charmed by Gwyneth Herbert's Clangers & Mash. Rating: * * * more info

Altsounds — *Gwyneth Herbert premiers video for 'Perfect Fit' taken from her upcoming mini album Clangers & Mash * Gwyneth Herbert is an artist who continues to redefine (and defy) our expectations. A singer-songwriter with one foot in the jazz world and o... more info

Guardian Music — (ACT)Maybe it's an indication of the poise and clarity running beneath the apparent mayhem in composer Django Bates's music that he chose Swedish singer Josefine Cronholm as principal vocalist for his Quiet Nights band. This stately, pure-toned vocal... more info

All About Jazz — "The jazz folk-diva with an awesome voice. Expect beguiling, powerful and often witty songs that strike an emotional chord!" --Time Out Gwyneth first broke onto the scene five years ago, when she was signed up by the Universal conglomerate as a jazz... more info

Guardian Music — She used to scour bars looking for gigs. Now Gwyneth Herbert is being compared to Lennon and McCartneyWhen Gwyneth Herbert was discovered – almost overnight, at the age of 22 – she was a singer with a rich contralto voice who wrote fic... more info