Mercury News, California — Melody Gardot delights fans at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. more info

Guardian Music — The London jazz festival starts on Friday 9 November, and here are our critics' picks of what to see – plus suggestions from performers including Robert Glasper and Gwyneth HerbertGuy Barker's Jazz Voices: Celebrating a Century of SongBarbican, Fri... more info

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USA Today Music — In addition to the pop and rock options, there's the major-label debut of rap trio Travis Porter. more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe great double-bassist and band-leader Charlie Haden not only helped invent free-jazz, but has sustained his Liberation Music Orchestra since the 70s as a jazz-and-politics band that doesn't wag a finger at you. A Barbican weekender... more info

Guardian Music — (Emarcy)For fans of the guitar star's punchy funk-playing, this ballad set probably veers too close to dinner-jazz smoothness. But Scofield likes giving each album a clear identity – the last one was the gospel-driven Piety Street, while its predec... more info

Guardian Music — (Emarcy)Those familiar with American bassist Charlie Haden (who plays the Barbican on 21-22 May) and his landmark recordings with Ornette Coleman in the 1950s or with Keith Jarrett in the 70s might find his now 25-year-old Quartet West overly gracefu... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offCharlie Haden Quartet West Sophisticated Ladies The great American bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden, a key figure in Ornette Coleman's free-jazz revolution of the 50s an... more info

Reuters — PARIS (Billboard) - Melody Gardot is the latest beneficiary of France's long love affair with American jazz. Following in the footsteps of French favorites like Josephine Baker, Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell and, more recently, Diana Krall, singer-songwr... more info

Mercury News, California — A lot of people want to shove Melody Gardot into the race to become the next Norah Jones or Diana Krall. more info