Guardian Music — (Proper)This has got to be the bargain of the month. Alto saxophonist Adderley, a master of hard bop and soul jazz, died in 1975. This box of four CDs contains 57 tracks from his early maturity in the late 50s. With his huge tone and phenomenal fluen... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Next to the regular music industry as most of us know it, there is of course a parallel circuit that's been around probably since the 60s, if not earlier. One could call it a cottage music industry, where people with talent that are not interested i... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — Testing musicians’ memories after a lifetime of abuse You were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2006, but can you name any other artists who were honoured in the same year? “Yeah, I think Metallica was one… Oh, hang on, I know... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ben said... Daily Downloads, Apr 03.11 Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Cannonball & Coltrane Chet Baker: Chet Chet Baker: In New York Blondie: Blondie Cabaret Voltaire: Plasticity Cocteau Twins: Aikea Guinea EP Elvis Costello: My Flame Burns Blue Miles ... more info

Guardian Music — What links Hot Chip, This Heat and Betty Boo? About Group do – in a roundabout kind of way. The improv quartet talk to Jude Rogers about thinking on their feetIn the Barbican arts centre in London, lurking around the foyer, we find a Mercury prize... more info

Guardian Music — From the late 1960s onward, European jazz musicians began to look to their own cultural tradition. The first steps were tentative, but by the mid-1970s they had become giant stridesEberhard Weber, the jazz-raised German electric bassist, is reputed t... more info

XLR8R — In memory of Steve Reid, the legendary jazz drummer whose prolific career included working with James Brown, Miles Davis, and Kieran Hebden, among others, before passing away last year, BBC Radio DJ/Brownswood head honcho Gilles Peterson has founded ... more info

Altsounds — Concord Music Group has assembled three new titles in its ongoing Definitive series, one of which marks the series' initial foray into CMG's vast blues catalog. *The Definitive Miles Davis on Prestige*; *The Definitive Bill Evans on Riverside and F... more info

ContactMusic — Celebrated composer, conductor and director Howard A. Roberts has died, aged 86. Roberts produced recordings for a variety of artists at Columbia Records, including Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Barbra Streisand. He was the ... more info

Guardian Music — Kids Are All Right star to take lead role in Low Down, a biopic based on a memoir by musician's daughter, reports sayMark Ruffalo is to play the jazz musician Joe Albany, who became one of the few white pianists to play with Charlie Parker and later ... more info