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Brad Meldhau: The Art of the Trio Recordings 1996-2001 – review

4728 days ago
Guardian Music(Nonesuch)When a classically trained young piano improviser called Brad Mehldau emerged in the mid-1990s, he quickly established a patient, subtle and richly contrapuntal approach that took jazz piano-trio improvisation to a new level. Warner Brother... more info

Nat Birchall: Sacred Dimension – review

4735 days ago
Guardian Music(Gondwana)Saxophonist Nat Birchall is a John Coltrane admirer whose quicker pieces tend to sound like Coltrane's famous account of My Favourite Things, and his ballads like the sax-guru's haunting tone poem Naima. Ancient World, the opening track of... more info

Ken Kesey's Magic Trip: Merry Pranksters redux

4749 days ago
Guardian MusicFootage of Ken Kesey's 1964 LSD road trip has finally been edited into a (mostly) coherent filmIn 1964 Ken Kesey embarked on a coast-to-coast-and-back road trip, spreading the word of LSD with a busload of costumed cohorts; it is the stuff of pop-cu... more info

The Necks – review

4753 days ago
Guardian MusicBishopsgate Centre, LondonYou can generate all kinds of similes listening to The Necks: a picture gallery, an urban landscape, the surface of the moon. But the metaphor that sprang to mind for their latest appearance, at the London Jazz festival, was... more info

London Jazz Festival: saxophone shows its star appeal

4761 days ago
Guardian MusicSteve Coleman, Steve Williamson and Chris Potter reveal instrument's depths and variationsIn deference to the ways of the world, the London Jazz Festival might have cannily foregrounded pop-oriented singers in its opening days – but the real star h... more info

Marc Ribot Trio – review

4773 days ago
Guardian MusicBishopsgate Centre, LondonBoth power trio and a supergroup that spans three generations, expectations were high for this soldout concert. Drummer Chad Taylor was a lynchpin of the Chicago Underground scene and lineups that joined the dots between pos... more info

Louis Hayes Cannonball Legacy Band – review

4785 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, London"People do this kind of thing all the time," New York alto saxophonist Vincent Herring told Tuesday night's full house at Ronnie Scott's. He was talking about legacy jazz groups, celebrating long-gone stars. "But you can't do it... more info

Sonny Rollins: On Impulse!/There Will Never Be Another You – review Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Lady Sinner/Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus – review

4791 days ago
Guardian Music(Impulse/Universal)It's the 50th birthday of Impulse Records, one of the most famous of all jazz labels – and famously home to John Coltrane for six years. The upcoming London Jazz festival celebrates with a concert on 12 November featuring pianist... more info

The symphony and the novel – a harmonious couple?

4800 days ago
Guardian MusicThe symphony and the novel evolved in tandem for two centuries. Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and de... more info

My favourite album: Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk

4836 days ago
Guardian MusicGuardian and Observer writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, John Fordham examines the brilliant corners of Thelonious MonkWhen I was discovering jazz as a student, Thelonious Monk seemed to epito... more info

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