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Brigitte Beraha/Gareth Williams – review

4572 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Bull/Lauderdale House, LondonBrigitte Beraha, the lyrical, Italian-born singer-songwriter, and Gareth Williams, the powerful Welsh pianist, between them embodied the fundamentals of the Jazz With Soul weekender in London's Highgate: spontaneity, ... more info

Ravi Coltrane: Spirit Fiction – review

4627 days ago
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

Doug Carn/Jean Carne – review

4638 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonWhen the 1980s acid-jazz movement showed how early jazz-funk could so successfully be hitched to later dancefloor sounds that even pop DJs noticed, the cult crossover hits of pianist/composer Doug Carn and vocalist Jean Carne (s... more info

John Fordham's month in jazz

4677 days ago
Guardian MusicContinuing 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

John Abercrombie Quartet: Within a Song – review

4683 days ago
Guardian Music(ECM)This is an unusual ECM release – a journey back to guitarist's guitarist John Abercrombie's formative 1960s influences, in the music of Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis and Bill Evans. But the implications of the titl... more info

Ilan Volkov and Friends – review

4692 days ago
Guardian MusicKings Place, LondonIsrael's Ilan Volkov is one of the world's most adventurous conductors, a specialist in early-20th-century modernism who has made his name with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Iceland's Symphony Orchestra. But this event, p... more info

Teddy Charles

4693 days ago
Guardian MusicVirtuoso vibraphonist, composer and skipper in the CaribbeanTeddy Charles, who has died aged 84, was a virtuoso vibraphonist and a boldly experimental composer. In the 1960s, he temporarily gave up jazz to live on Martinique, where he became one of t... more info

John Fordham's month in jazz

4697 days ago
Guardian MusicIn this first of a 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 colum... more info

Tony Marsh

4700 days ago
Guardian MusicJazz 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

Steve Lehman: Dialect Fluorescent – review

4704 days ago
Guardian MusicPi RecordingsNew York alto saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman provided some of last year's lasting jazz excitements both live and on disc, with his virtuosic, mathematically precise new music that had both contemporary-classical and street-sharp u... more info

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