Guardian Music — (Jazzland) Conversations between improvising jazz players and computer musicians have often left the former struggling to find space within the machine's strutting rigidities, or the latter clacking hopefully along behind jazz's athleticism. This dia... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — A high point on the soundtrack to director Dennis Hopper’s 1990 film The Hot Spot, “Bank Robbery” finds John Lee Hooker collaborating with Miles Davis alongside Taj Mahal, Roy Rogers, Earl Palmer, and Tim Drummond. Scored by Jack Nitzchse, the ... more info

Guardian Music — Eloquent jazz vocalist who drew on the raw passion of the bluesThe reputation of Joe Lee Wilson, the jazz vocalist, who has died aged 75, never matched those of such male stars as Jon Hendricks, Mark Murphy or Kurt Elling – yet his eloquent bariton... more info

Reuters — MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Marcus Miller paid tribute to their friend and mentor Miles Davis, performing a "songtrack to the life" of the late American trumpet player whose music electrified the world of jazz.... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonJohn McLaughlin, the Yorkshire-born musician who found himself on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew in 1969 and became a guitar legend, has returned to Ronnie Scott's for the first time in 44 years. Musing on the late proprietor's like... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Betty Davis’s funk banger “If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up,” culled from her 1973 self-titled LP. I caught this  jam at a party last weekend, hearing it for what must have been the first time in over a year. There is a reason Betty, Mil... more info

Guardian Music — (Loop) London's F-ire and Loop Collectives keep turning up fascinating young bands. Ma is an improv/electronics/samples group featuring saxophonist Tom Challenger and drummer Dave Smith (cornerstones of the excellent Outhouse) with organist Ross Stan... more info

ContactMusic — Turkey's Istanbul International Jazz Festival has landed a pair of firsts - Paul Simon will make his first appearance in the country when he closes the event next month (Jul11) and Herbie Hancock will debut his Tribute To Miles show. The three-week e... more info

Said the Gramophone — Miles Davis - "All Blues/Theme" (Live in Stockholm, 1960) You can learn a lot about a band from a song in which its members trade solos. You can isolate the soul of a group, as in the Jeff Parker-dominated Tortoise... more info

ContactMusic — Don Cheadle's dreams of playing Miles Davis on the big screen have been stalled by financial problems. The Hotel Rwanda star admits financiers have been put off the ongoing project because it isn't "your standard middle of the road studio fare". He t... more info