Guardian Music — Steve 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

Guardian Music — Bishopsgate 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

Guardian Music — Ronnie 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

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

Guardian Music — The 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

Guardian Music — Guardian 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

Guardian Music — Our 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

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Combining music and comedy, Watts' performance combines Andy Kaufman's Dada eye and John Coltrane's connection to the improvisational sublime. more info

Guardian Music — Continuing 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

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