Guardian Music — 1959: 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

Guardian Music — 21 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

Guardian Music — Versatile pianist and a member of a musical dynasty, he bridged the jazz generationsThe distinguished African-American pianist Ray Bryant, who has died aged 79 after a long illness, became a fixture of the jazz mainstream after enjoying a measure of... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonMichel Legrand's unique songs still glow long after many of the movies they were written for have vanished. (Other movies haven't: the multi-Grammy-winning composer and jazz pianist's hits also include The Thomas Crowne Affair, ... more info

Guardian Music — With artists from Lady Gaga to Deerhunter currently sneaking in sax sounds, David Renshaw finds the instrument's curves are in all the right placesWhile Odd Future, Lisa Simpson, Lady Gaga and Bill Clinton may seem like a bizarre sort of supergroup, ... more info

Guardian Music — Philip Larkin loved trad jazz. John Harris grew up thinking nothing before bebop was worth listening to. So he tried to discover the appeal of Ellington and Basie"I can live a week without poetry," Philip Larkin said in 1965, "but not a day without j... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz violinist whose playing had a powerful lyrical sense and a mischievous streakAs the instrument often taken to represent the soul of western classical music, the violin has seemed untouchable to many jazz artists. However, a few have sidestepped ... more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, CheltenhamAn American saxophone legend wearing the mantle of John Coltrane, a virtuosic British duo working the cracks between jazz and modern chamber-music, and a star jazz eccentric were among Saturday's confirmations of the Chelten... more info

Topix — John Coltrane, Ray Charles celebrated as part of 'Impulse! Nights' at the Jazz Standard. more info

Guardian Music — (Cuneiform) The presence of John Coltrane looms over this session – a previously unreleased TV show made for NDR in Hamburg in 1969, almost two years after Coltrane had died. The British saxophonist John Surman (then a 24-year-old rising star) was... more info