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Arve Henriksen/Trio Mediæval – review

4760 days ago
Guardian MusicLSO 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

Nile Rodgers: my greatest mistake

4764 days ago
Guardian MusicChic 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

This week's new live music

4771 days ago
Guardian MusicSharon Van Etten, On tourIt's hard to imagine that anyone this year will write a relationship song quite as powerful as Sharon Van Etten's Give Out. Someone who writes from the heart, about the heart, Van Etten's current album Tramp is a bag of bones... more info

John Abercrombie Quartet: Within a Song – review

4772 days ago
Guardian Music(ECM)This is an unusual ECM release – a journey back to guitarist's guitarist John Abercrombie's formative 1960s influences, in the music of Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis and Bill Evans. But the implications of the titl... more info

Marcus Miller – review

4776 days ago
Guardian MusicCheltenham jazz festivalA circus big top felt like just the right place to hear that breathtaking trapeze-artist of the bass guitar, Marcus Miller – the Cheltenham Jazz Festival having vacated its worthy town hall annexes in favour of an upbeat ca... more info

Blog jam: Hard Format

4779 days ago
Guardian MusicTwice a week we invite independent music writers and bloggers to tell us about what they do. Today, a site celebrating music-related designWho are you and what's your blog called?Colin Buttimer – Hard Format.Where are you based?London. Describe you... more info

Teddy Charles

4782 days ago
Guardian MusicVirtuoso vibraphonist, composer and skipper in the CaribbeanTeddy Charles, who has died aged 84, was a virtuoso vibraphonist and a boldly experimental composer. In the 1960s, he temporarily gave up jazz to live on Martinique, where he became one of t... more info

Homeland resonates to jazz – but what other shows benefit from great music?

4786 days ago
Guardian MusicCarrie listens to Thelonius Monk, while Treme is also filled with jazz, proving a powerful soundtrack can enhance any TV plotThe squeaks and squalls of jazz are an essential part of Homeland. Music features frequently in the Channel 4 US import, from... more info

John Fordham's month in jazz

4786 days ago
Guardian MusicIn this first of a series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from the past few weeks. Tell us in the comments section below if there's things we've missed, plus what you'd like to see John covering in next month's colum... more info

Tony Marsh

4789 days ago
Guardian MusicJazz percussionist whose drumming combined intensity with restraintThe percussionist Tony Marsh, who has died of cancer aged 72, was an inspired collaborator, combining intensity with restraint and stroking the drums more than he struck them. He work... more info

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