Guardian Music — Joe Harriott brought a Caribbean flavour to his fiery free-jazz. He also died, broke, at 44. Soweto Kinch on the great British jazzman we neglected for too longI first came across Joe Harriott while I was playing with Jazz Jamaica, a ska and jazz big... more info

Guardian Music — (Archieball) Joachim Kuhn, the great German jazz pianist, has played piano with Ornette Coleman – now he partners another saxophone legend of the 1960s American new wave in this warmly lyrical and distinctive duet with Archie Shepp. Shepp's signatu... more info

Guardian Music — 1959: 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

Guardian Music — 21 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

Guardian Music — 21 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

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

Guardian Music — Philip 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

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

Guardian Music — Jazz 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

Guardian Music — Our 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