All About Jazz — Austin Chronicle Aural History Hannibal Lokumbe and Jeff Lofton's Jazz Traditionalism BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ Photo by John Anderson "I don't know him," admitted Jeff Lofton of Hannibal Lokumbe a few weeks before this issue's cover shoot. "That's somebo... more info

All About Jazz — Pianist McCoy Tyner was just a teenager when Philadelphia neighbors like Bud Powell and the young Lee Morgan began hipping him to the sounds of modern jazz. Soon, Tyner was playing on his own, cutting his teeth with Benny Golson and Art Farmer, befor... more info

All About Jazz — John Coltrane once said, "Let the music speak for itself." The guitarist/composer and band leader Christopher Jentsch adds an interesting twist on that subject by opting to describe himself when asked about the broader subject of how to capture his m... more info

Guardian Music — (Planet Arts)This is an unusual venture featuring the great saxophonist David Liebman with a full-blown orchestra under trumpeter Bill Warfield's direction. The band mostly operates in a Gil Evans Sketches of Spain-era mode, on four different examina... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonThe blurb for French guitarist Biréli ­Lagrène claims he has returned to his roots and "the irresistible swing of Gypsy jazz". But Lagrène can play any style of jazz guitar from the last 80 years: lead and rhythm, el... more info

All About Jazz — Ed Thigpen, Chicago-born drummer with the Oscar Peterson Trio during the famed jazz pianist's popular early-'60s period, died on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the age of seventy-nine in Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen after being ill for a long perio... more info

All About Jazz — Bret Primack, aka the Jazz Video Guy, looks back at the video he produced in 2009. Features: Billy Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Miles Davis, John Coltrane. Writer/Video Journalist Bret Primack has been at the forefront of new m... more info

Mercury News, California — The pianist, who performed for years with John Coltrane, now gigging with the legendary sax man's son, Ravi Coltrane. more info

Guardian Music — The only thing you could really expect from jazz in the noughties was the unexpectedJazz sounds different now; different from the way it sounded in the century that spawned it. It's not that over the last 10 years musicians have stopped improvising p... more info

Guardian Music — When it comes to exploiting the vibraphone's capacity for making a simple statement sound beautiful, Bobby Hutcherson has no equal. All nine of these pieces are in some way associated with John Coltrane. Hutcherson plays brilliantly on all of them bu... more info