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The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Joe McPhee – Nation Time

4608 days ago
Guardian MusicThink 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

Von Freeman obituary

4608 days ago
Guardian MusicUnassuming 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

Readers recommend: songs about circles – results

4621 days ago
Guardian MusicThe 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

A guide to Olga Neuwirth's music

4623 days ago
Guardian MusicThis 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

Mike Stern: All Over the Place – review

4635 days ago
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

Yazz Ahmed: Finding My Way Home – review

4647 days ago
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

The greatest ever album covers

4655 days ago
Guardian MusicFrom Miles Davis to Manic Street Preachers, six readers tell us about their favourite album sleeve art – what's yours?Thomas Casagranda on Bitches Brew by Miles DavisMati Klarwein, the painter of the artwork, was a European Jewish refugee from Nazi... more info

Ravi Coltrane: Spirit Fiction – review

4656 days ago
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

Christian Scott: Christian aTunde Adjuah – review

4663 days ago
Guardian Music(Concord)New Orleans trumpeter Christian Scott's 2010 album Yesterday You Said Tomorrow received acclaim for its balance of early-jazz brass power and contemporary urban sounds, and for the unflinching social and political agenda he managed to raise ... more info

Joshua Ledet – National Anthem – Miles Davis Stamp Dedication (VIDEO)

4663 days ago
Mjsbigblog American Idol alum, Joshua Ledet, sang the National Anthem at the Miles Davis Official Stamp Dedication, sponsored by the US Post Office. more info

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