Guardian Music — (TCB)Davis completed recording the most celebrated jazz album in history, the revolutionary Kind of Blue, in April 1959. It changed the way jazz would be played and heard from then on. He was still working through its implications a year later, when ... more info

Guardian Music — Guitarist will tell his life story 'to help readers discover the sanctity, grace, and divinity in themselves'Carlos Santana has joined the parade of musicians writing their memoirs. The Grammy award-winning guitarist will publish his autobiography in... more info

Guardian Music — The Bull/Lauderdale House, LondonBrigitte Beraha, the lyrical, Italian-born singer-songwriter, and Gareth Williams, the powerful Welsh pianist, between them embodied the fundamentals of the Jazz With Soul weekender in London's Highgate: spontaneity, ... more info

Guardian Music — (Blue Note)A career on the saxophone with one of the most freethinking saxophonists in music history for a father has to be a tough call. Now 46, Ravi Coltrane, son of John, has often chosen to be a sympathetic sideman rather than the boss. But his B... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonWhen the 1980s acid-jazz movement showed how early jazz-funk could so successfully be hitched to later dancefloor sounds that even pop DJs noticed, the cult crossover hits of pianist/composer Doug Carn and vocalist Jean Carne (s... more info

Guardian Music — Continuing our series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from the past few weeks. Tell us in the comments section below if there's things we've missed, plus what you'd like to see John covering in next month's column1) ... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM)This is an unusual ECM release – a journey back to guitarist's guitarist John Abercrombie's formative 1960s influences, in the music of Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis and Bill Evans. But the implications of the titl... more info

Guardian Music — Kings Place, LondonIsrael's Ilan Volkov is one of the world's most adventurous conductors, a specialist in early-20th-century modernism who has made his name with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Iceland's Symphony Orchestra. But this event, p... more info

Guardian Music — Virtuoso vibraphonist, composer and skipper in the CaribbeanTeddy Charles, who has died aged 84, was a virtuoso vibraphonist and a boldly experimental composer. In the 1960s, he temporarily gave up jazz to live on Martinique, where he became one of t... more info

Guardian Music — In this first of a series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from the past few weeks. Tell us in the comments section below if there's things we've missed, plus what you'd like to see John covering in next month's colum... more info