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Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue

5038 days ago
Guardian Music1959: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music1959 saw the release of several key jazz albums, each of which found new ways of developing and challenging the innovations of bebop. Dave Brubeck's Time Out transformed ... more info

John Coltrane's funeral

5038 days ago
Guardian Music21 July 1967: Number 36 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of Jazz musicThe send-off given to John Coltrane (1926-67) remains the most iconic in jazz history. The venue was St Peter's Lutheran Church in midtown New York, which, in 1960... more info

Ornette Coleman closes the Meltdown festival

5038 days ago
Guardian Music21 June 2009: Number 49 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicLong after the last chord, people were still crowding down the aisles of the Royal Festival Hall in London to get close to jazz's greatest surviving revolutionary... more info

Smithsonian Jazz Anthology – review

5045 days ago
Guardian Music(Smithsonian Folkways)At around 60 quid, this remarkable anthology of jazz's evolution from 1899 to 2003 isn't exactly a snip – but it does come with over 100 tracks on six discs wrapped in a beautifully illustrated, 200-page hardback book, and the... more info

All that jazz

5065 days ago
Guardian MusicPhilip Larkin loved trad jazz. John Harris grew up thinking nothing before bebop was worth listening to. So he tried to discover the appeal of Ellington and Basie"I can live a week without poetry," Philip Larkin said in 1965, "but not a day without j... more info

Charlie Haden Quartet West: Sophisticated Ladies – review

5080 days ago
Guardian Music(Emarcy)Those familiar with American bassist Charlie Haden (who plays the Barbican on 21-22 May) and his landmark recordings with Ornette Coleman in the 1950s or with Keith Jarrett in the 70s might find his now 25-year-old Quartet West overly gracefu... more info

Billy Bang obituary

5083 days ago
Guardian MusicJazz violinist whose playing had a powerful lyrical sense and a mischievous streakAs the instrument often taken to represent the soul of western classical music, the violin has seemed untouchable to many jazz artists. However, a few have sidestepped ... more info

F&M Playlist

5087 days ago
Guardian MusicOur music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offCharlie Haden Quartet West Sophisticated Ladies The great American bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden, a key figure in Ornette Coleman's free-jazz revolution of the 50s an... more info

Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Faithful – review

5094 days ago
Guardian Music(ECM)Long-running lineups are a rarity in jazz, but pianist Marcin Wasilewski's Polish trio have played together since they were students in the early 1990s, and their ability to catch and amplify each other's thoughts reflects this. Like their earli... more info

F&M Playlist

5101 days ago
Guardian MusicOur music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offMarcin Wasilewski Trio Faithful Originally the backing band of Polish trumpet legend Tomasz Stanko, this trio have become one of the most admired contemporary ensembles in E... more info

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