L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Some of the year's best work has come from seasoned rappers such as 'Killer Mike,' 2 Chainz and Pusha T. Similar to the days when Miles Davis pushed jazz forward.Few would have imagined that one of the most powerful and acclaimed protest songs of the... more info

Totally Fuzzy — "Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet" is an album by Miles Davis, recorded in 1956 but not released until 1961 as PRLP 7200. A new remastered release by Concord Music Group can be streamed in full below. And since I already mentioned the Isle... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM)This ECM box set brings together three early Jan Garbarek albums, made between 1971 and 1975, and all featuring fluently inventive Swedish jazz pianist Bobo Stenson. The players were the emerging young stars of the Scandinavian scene, and though... more info

The Newsroom — Music legends Edith Piaf and Miles Davis receive commemorative stamps in France and the U.S. more info

Guardian Music — How many roads must a man walk down, before he hails a cab? Bob Dylan could never answer thatOK, this column is often written by and for old blokes trying to remember what it was like to be young, or – in my case – what it was like when I had hai... more info

Guardian Music — A catalogue of mod-friendly bands and brands reflects the materialistic impulses of the 60s youth movementSanjeev Bhaskar used to play an old man in Goodness Gracious Me who insisted that every major public figure was Indian. Paolo Hewitt is a bit li... more info

Guardian Music — (Dreyfus)This is bass-guitar star Marcus Miller's UK-tour repertoire of last month, plus a few bonuses, including the finely spun vocals of young New Yorker Gretchen Parlato and the rasping ones of Dr John on two tracks. For jazz-funk fans, it's para... more info

ContactMusic — Guitarist Pete Cosey who worked extensively with jazz icon Miles Davis has died at the age of 68 He passed away on Wednesday morning 30May12 of unknown causes The musician was a session guitarist with Chess Records during the 1960s and played o... more info

Guardian Music — LSO St Luke's, LondonThe seeds of Norwegian jazz and improvising trumpeter Arve Henriksen's cross-genre collaboration with Oslo's early-music vocal group Trio Mediæval were planted 18 years ago, when Henriksen's countryman Jan Garbarek hitched post-... more info

Guardian Music — Chic guitarist, songwriter and producer regrets not taking up jazz legend Miles Davis's request to write him a hitThe single biggest mistake of my entire life was not taking Miles Davis seriously when he said: "Write me a motherfucking 'Good Times'"... more info