Guardian Music — At first, it seems Erykah Badu's revolution has been put on hold – but, says Alexis Petridis, digging deeper pays dividendsIt sold millions of albums, but there was always something underwhelming about the mid-90s genre nu-soul. It was indebte... more info

All About Jazz — By PicoDid Columbia Records just pull a forgotten Miles Davis Second Great Quintet record out of the vault and dropped it unsuspectingly on the public? Because when I listen to Jeremy Pelt's new CD Men Of Honor (released January 26), it often feels l... more info

Guardian Music — Photographer whose candid images helped define rock's halcyon era of the 60s and 70sThe photographer Jim Marshall, who has died aged 74, was as colourful and unpredictable as many of the rock stars he shot. "I've been busted a few times for drugs, gu... more info

All About Jazz — Since the beginning of time there has been the telling of oral history. Stories have been passed down through generations, of family, of ancestry, of traditions, of myth, all indispensable to human identity. In fact, it is essential for a people to r... more info

All About Jazz — Resonance Records To Release Romanian Piano Virtuoso Marian Petrescu'sLive at the Jazz Standard On May 11 Petrescu's Explosive Debut As A Leader For The Label Features Powerhouse Playing Alongside The Ace Rhythm Section of Andreas berg, David Finck ... more info

All About Jazz — After being behind the scenes for the last 5 years as a record producer, music director, composer and songwriter, it's finally time for Elisha "Atlas" Parris to make a splash in the jazz community with his highly anticipated new urban jazz release, a... more info

Buffalo News, New York — Wynton Marsalis never was going to be the next Miles Davis. He was never going to be the next Duke Ellington, either. more info

Guardian Music — (Jazz Granada)Disassembler features the compositions of its guitarist/leader Trevor Warren and the distinctive solo voices of trombonist Annie Whitehead and saxophonist Mark Lockheart. Warren's striking themes and rousing arrangements lift it far abo... more info

All About Jazz — If you were a record producer in the late 1940s, you pretty much had to invent the job. At the dawn of the LP era, there were no rules, no models and no mentors. As George Avakian discovered at Columbia Records, new ways to package pop and jazz music... more info

All About Jazz — For 15 years before he moved to the US from his native Brazil in 1993, Jovino Santos Neto was the pianist and arranger for Hermeto Pascoal, whom Miles Davis is said to have called, "the most impressive musician in the world." Santos Neto lives and te... more info