Guardian Music — Jazz trumpeter with imagination and taste, he played lead with an array of great bandsThe jazz trumpeter Snooky Young, who has died aged 92, served during his long career with an array of great bands, including those of Jimmie Lunceford and Count Ba... more info

Altsounds — If indeed "you blows who you is", as Louis Armstrong once famously said, then *Stephen Bruner's* bass is a mainline to the soul of a man whose DNA was transcribed from the stars onto staff paper. His *Flying Lotus*-produced debut, The Golden Age of A... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe death of John Barry in January robbed the cinema world of one of its most outstanding soundtrack composers. This one-off memorial concert, co-produced by his widow Laurie and long-time Barry devotee David Arnold, featured... more info

Guardian Music — In a seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Rounding everything off, today they pick out 50 key moments in the story of jazz – but what did they miss?Drug busts, razor-sharp tailoring and br... more info

Guardian Music — Early 1900s: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicWhether or not the cornetist Buddy Bolden invented jazz (Jelly Roll Morton is one of the best known other claimants to the title), he certainly created the enduring ... more info

Guardian Music — 1916: Number 3 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicLouis Armstrong bought his first cornet at a New Orleans pawnshop, when he was 15 years old. The instrument cost $10, and was "all bent up, holes knocked in the bell". Neve... more info

Guardian Music — 1917: Number 4 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicJazz had been evolving for almost a decade before it was recorded – and a white New Orleans band called the Original Dixieland Jazz Band beat all the superior Southland b... 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 — From riding a donkey to the best-dressed chicken in town, here are your favourite creature comfortsAnimals are like people. We look at the creatures around us and recognise ourselves. This being the case, as many RR regulars noted, most songs ostensi... more info

ContactMusic — Randy Wood, the founder of Dot Records, has died at 94. Wood passed away at his home in California on Saturday (09Apr11). His company, Dot Records, found success in the 1950s recording artists such as Louis Armstrong, Pat Boone, Mickey Gilley,.... more info