Guardian Music — The Digital Music Index shows just how popular illegal downloading – particularly of Ed Sheeran – has becomeIf you're like me and the vast majority of people in the UK, on Monday morning you discovered many people in your area risked legal action... 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 — Nordic country music, British folk and some gold-standard jazz in London and BirminghamSusannaThe Norwegian founder of Susanna and the Magical Orchestra tours material from her new album, Wild Dog: ethereal songs that suggest a kind of 21st-century N... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM)It's taken Enrico Rava, the Miles Davis-inspired trumpeter from Trieste, until his 70s to hit the dance floor. This live album is dedicated to Michael Jackson, who Rava said he didn't discover until the singer's death – and then became obsesse... more info

Guardian Music — Think of this as a grinning punk cousin to Miles Davis's brutal and brilliant Bitches BrewReading on mobile? Listen hereIt would be a simple – and hugely enjoyable – task to make a list of 101 amazing and odd jazz LPs on Spotify, but if you wante... more info

Guardian Music — Unassuming master of post-bop jazz who refused to leave his native ChicagoTo get the real point of Von Freeman, the American tenor saxophonist who has died aged 88, you had to hear him in one of the Chicago jazz lounges that he inhabited throughout h... more info

Guardian Music — The time has come round again for this week's RR playlistAnother week, another Readers Recommend theme, regular as clockwork. Last week's call for songs about circles solicited some profoundly heady adventures into the subconscious and expressions of... more info

Guardian Music — This remarkable creator – of orchestral pieces and chamber works as well as hybrids of film and performance art – draws on a plethora of influences, yet devises her own astonishing sound All articles in this seriesAfter Igor Stravinsky, it's a bi... more info

Guardian Music — (Heads Up)Former Miles Davis guitarist Mike Stern takes an all-embracing approach here, mixing up funk, blues, African music, soul-jazz, bebop and ballads. He takes an equally sweeping approach to recruiting studio lineups, too: there are star appea... more info

Guardian Music — (Suntara)An absorbing debut album by this young trumpeter-composer, perhaps a little too subdued in tone but packed with ideas. Of the 10 pieces, most are original, several based on what I take to be Middle Eastern scales or rhythms, and all impressi... more info