Guardian Music — The London Jazz festival today announces the lineup for its 20th festival with over 250 shows at over 50 venues across the city.The festival, which runs from 9 to 18 November, will host some of jazz's biggest stars, including Herbie Hancock playing h... more info

Guardian Music — Nordic country music, British folk and some gold-standard jazz in London and BirminghamSusannaThe Norwegian founder of Susanna and the Magical Orchestra tours material from her new album, Wild Dog: ethereal songs that suggest a kind of 21st-century N... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — There was little idea of what to expect going into Herbie Hancock's show at the Hollywood Bowl Wednesday night. All we knew was that there would be a Rolodex worth of guests, including guitarist Carlos Santana and Hancock's longtime collaborator Wayn... more info

Rollo & Grady — King Khan RECOMMENDED SHOWS :: AUGUST 28TH – SEPTEMBER 2ND Tuesday, August 28th Divine Fits @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Wednesday, August 29th Herbie Hancock with Wayne Shorter Quartet, and Carlos Santana @ Hollywood Bowl The Entrance Band... more info

Guardian Music — The time has come round again for this week's RR playlistAnother week, another Readers Recommend theme, regular as clockwork. Last week's call for songs about circles solicited some profoundly heady adventures into the subconscious and expressions of... more info

Guardian Music — Joy Orbison, LondonPeter O'Grady, the DJ and producer with arguably the dance world's best pseudonym, is someone having the best of both worlds. He's reassuringly underground (he says his influences include GG Allin and Martin Hannett) and he hasn't ... more info

Guardian Music — (Blue Note)A career on the saxophone with one of the most freethinking saxophonists in music history for a father has to be a tough call. Now 46, Ravi Coltrane, son of John, has often chosen to be a sympathetic sideman rather than the boss. But his B... more info

Metalsucks — I think I’ve said before that I’m pretty much over it with mash-ups — so take it as high praise that I’m posting this one of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” with Herbie Hancock’s “Doin’ It” by Wax Audio. It really is amazing ho... more info

Guardian Music — Continuing our series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from the past few weeks. Tell us in the comments section below if there's things we've missed, plus what you'd like to see John covering in next month's column1) ... more info

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