Guardian Music — The Capstone, LiverpoolIt is extraordinary to think that the enfant terrible of English music, Mark-Anthony Turnage, has reached his half-century. To celebrate, Ensemble 10/10 presented a programme that demonstrated Turnage's influence on a generatio... more info

Guardian Music — (Poll Winners)Abbey Lincoln has inspired many singers, Cassandra Wilson being perhaps the best known. This two-disc set comprises early sessions for the Riverside label in 1958 and 59, with Miles Davis's Philly Joe Jones and Lincoln's future husband ... more info

Pitchfork — Let's say you've already worked your way through all 70 discs of The Complete Columbia Album Collection, the comically huge Miles Davis box set that Columbia/Legacy released last year. Yet somehow still want more Miles Davis. It's possible! People li... more info

Totally Fuzzy — stytzer said... Songs recently posted: + Under Byen - Alt Er Tabt + Plushgun - Mixtapes (Buffetlibre Remix) + Francois Peglau - God & the unconscious want me dead! + Francois Peglau - Everybody loves me + Oliver North Boy Choir - Baby Cool (Good Luck... more info

Totally Fuzzy — strahinja said... MARK WIRTZ – A Teenage Opera (1967) JOHN LEE HOOKER & MILES DAVIS – The Hot Spot (1990) CURVED AIR – Phantasmagoria Various Artists – Warchild Help! A Day In The Life (2005) SANTO & JOHNNY – Santo & Johnny (1960) BRIAN HYL... more info

All About Jazz — TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Swing Journal, a long-standing monthly magazine that has led the jazz culture of postwar Japan, is being suspended with its July edition that goes on sale on June 19, mainly due to dwindling advertisement revenues, its publisher said... more info

All About Jazz — Subtitled "Flame Keepers: Carrying the Torch for Modern Jazz," the 31st annual Detroit Jazz Fest will pay homage to six trailblazers of modern jazz: Art Blakey, Ray Brown, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Betty Carter, and Gil Evans. The talents of the... more info

All About Jazz — As the Baked Potato steams toward its massive 40th anniversary jazz festival next weekend, there was something perfect about East Coast guitarist Dave Fiuczynski's performance Thursday night. Revered as a home for musicians' musicians and those wh... more info

All About Jazz — The Alton Museum of History and Art has established a scholarship named after trumpeter Miles Davis, who was born in the Southern Illinois river town. According to an article by Jill Moon published in Monday's Alton Telegraph, the museum is now accep... more info

Guardian Music — Though he had recorded with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, it was from early 1956 that Sonny Rollins really took off …When the magic of jazz first touched me in the late 1960s, many pathfinding early creators of the music... more info