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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

4878 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?

4887 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

4923 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

F&M playlist

4934 days ago
Guardian MusicOur music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offSonny Clark Sonny Clark's Conception Sonny Clark (pictured), who died of a heroin overdose in 1963 at the age of 31, was Blue Note's house pianist in the late 50s, and in o... more info

Reggie Watts' genius on full display at Largo

4935 days ago
L.A. Times - EntertainmentCombining music and comedy, Watts' performance combines Andy Kaufman's Dada eye and John Coltrane's connection to the improvisational sublime. more info

My favourite album: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy

4942 days ago
Guardian MusicContinuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Dorian Lynskey says consider yourself ... warned!To find, at an impressionable age, a record that not only exp... more info

Archie Shepp/Joachim Kuhn: Wo! Man – review

4976 days ago
Guardian Music(Archieball) Joachim Kuhn, the great German jazz pianist, has played piano with Ornette Coleman – now he partners another saxophone legend of the 1960s American new wave in this warmly lyrical and distinctive duet with Archie Shepp. Shepp's signatu... more info

Santana, McLaughlin open Montreux jazz on high note

4982 days ago
ReutersMONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin performed tunes by John Coltrane, Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin, ushering in the 45th edition of the Montreux jazz festival with a spiritual note from the 1960s and 70s. more info

Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue

4997 days ago
Guardian Music1959: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music1959 saw the release of several key jazz albums, each of which found new ways of developing and challenging the innovations of bebop. Dave Brubeck's Time Out transformed ... more info

John Coltrane's funeral

4997 days ago
Guardian Music21 July 1967: Number 36 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of Jazz musicThe send-off given to John Coltrane (1926-67) remains the most iconic in jazz history. The venue was St Peter's Lutheran Church in midtown New York, which, in 1960... more info

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