USA Today Music — See full videos from an assortment of the season's bounty, including clips by Pearl Jam and Miles Davis. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The musician/DJ favors Miles Davis, Vum, Le Butcherettes and Boris. more info

Guardian Music — (ACT)One of Germany's relatively few internationally celebrated jazz stars from the 1960s, Joachim Kühn remains an elemental jazz force at a keyboard. He has plenty of opportunities to confirm that, on this 2010 live big-band concert, and his searin... more info

Guardian Music — (Sunnyside)Lucian Ban is a classically trained Romanian jazz pianist and composer who in recent years has become a key figure on New York's downtown jazz scene. This album is devoted to the work of Romanian classical genius George Enescu, the violin ... more info

Guardian Music — Purcell Room, LondonSeveral current events and exhibitions celebrate the composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-81), who sought to remove divisions between life and music, and whose influence transcends the marks he left on paper.This concert tackled two f... more info

Guardian Music — From Beethoven's letters to Bob Dylan's Chronicles, the musician chooses books that reveal the private lives behind the public melodiesSongwriter, arranger, producer and guitarist Nile Rodgers is one of the most influential pop musicians of the last ... more info

Guardian Music — Bishopsgate Centre, LondonYou can generate all kinds of similes listening to The Necks: a picture gallery, an urban landscape, the surface of the moon. But the metaphor that sprang to mind for their latest appearance, at the London Jazz festival, was... more info

Guardian Music — Pints of beer, a table, a pig – anything can be a musical instrument for the ever innovative Hermeto Pascoal. 'In my head there is always more stuff,' he tells Tom Phillips• Read John Fordham's guide to Hermeto PascoalInside a pink house on a lea... more info

Guardian Music — This week Sigur Rós talk about their future plans, while REM talk about not having anyIn the news this weekKeith Richards: Rolling Stones to rehearse for first time in yearsSigur Rós to release new albumAdele and Spike Jonze triumph at UK Music Vid... more info

Guardian Music — (Spherical) This album from Cuba-devoted Hackney trumpeter Loz Speyer means what its title says, all the way from the imaginative fusions of Cuban dance forms and pungent contemporary jazz of his Time Zone sextet, to the snaps of Santiago and his Cu... more info