Guardian Music — A trailblazing piece of free jazz that arrived in the revolutionary year of 1968 – and later found a fan in Bill ClintonAs this year's London Jazz festival drew to an end yesterday (21 November), my thoughts turned to how vehemently the event's div... more info

All About Jazz — Joe McPhee has played with a number of European improvisers during his long and distinguished career, and the rapport he strikes with bassist Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten is immediate and compelling. McPhee plays alto saxophone while Haker-Flaten plays bot... more info

All About Jazz — It's remarkable that even at 80 years old, Ornette Coleman can still incite outrage. His crime Wednesday night? (At least in the eyes of a few obstinate fans.) Inviting a turquoise-haired bassist whose day job happens to involve the Red Hot Chili Pep... more info

All About Jazz — Ornette Coleman Royce Hall : Wed., November 3, 8:00pm Free jazz is what you might call it, or you could make reference to his own "harmolodic" as a way of describing what the giant, Ornette Coleman, hath wrought on the world of music in general and t... more info

Guardian Music — (Mantella Records)British flautist and saxophonist Finn Peters is no purist jazzer, despite possessing a tenor sound that spans the worlds of John Coltrane and the soul-jazz horn players. He's worked with Dizzee Rascal and Matthew Herbert and the c... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonAlto saxophonist Paul van Kemenade has played a lot of world music, but the Dutchman's good-humoured and casually adept quintet sounded, on its vivacious Vortex visit, like a contemporary jazz band to its fingertips.Some of it suggested... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Radio Free Wohlman said... Transmission 5510 C'mon - let's go space truckin'. Blast-off and tune-in to an astronautical mission through the solar system starting at the sun and working our way out - far out! Along the way we are powered by the sou... more info

Guardian Music — In 1964, Miles Davis responded to free jazz by enlisting a group of untried talents who would challenge, rather than flatter, his remarkable trumpet sound. It was a gamble that paid off ...It's hard to think of a more significant influence on the sma... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Silvia said... (2004) KRAFTWERK - (1981) Computer World / 12345678 [Der Katalog] 2004 remastered (2006) I AM ROBOT AND PROUD - The Electricity In Your House Wants To Sing (2000) OHM: THE EARLY GURUS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC (2006) BLACK LUNG - Concrete Oc... more info

Guardian Music — From Pollock to Warhol, and now Jeremy Deller, artists have had a creative connection to music. But does great music imply great art (and vice versa)?At the end of Chris Morris's film Four Lions, a striking piece of music judders the soundtrack. Is i... more info