Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonWith last month's debut album release for his Unity Band, guitarist Pat Metheny introduced a saxophonist to his lineup for the first time in 30 years – the last occasion being the Ornette Coleman-influenced 80/81, with the late Mich... more info

Guardian Music — (Blue Note)A career on the saxophone with one of the most freethinking saxophonists in music history for a father has to be a tough call. Now 46, Ravi Coltrane, son of John, has often chosen to be a sympathetic sideman rather than the boss. But his B... more info

Guardian Music — Last week, we invited readers to put questions to the artist, musician, film-maker and activist. Here's what she had to sayLast week, we asked you to put your questions to Yoko Ono. Here are her exclusive answers, as part of her week-long Guardian di... more info

Guardian Music — Continuing our series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from the past few weeks. Tell us in the comments section below if there's things we've missed, plus what you'd like to see John covering in next month's column1) ... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM)This is an unusual ECM release – a journey back to guitarist's guitarist John Abercrombie's formative 1960s influences, in the music of Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis and Bill Evans. But the implications of the titl... more info

Guardian Music — Virtuoso vibraphonist, composer and skipper in the CaribbeanTeddy Charles, who has died aged 84, was a virtuoso vibraphonist and a boldly experimental composer. In the 1960s, he temporarily gave up jazz to live on Martinique, where he became one of t... more info

Guardian Music — (Jazzland)Scandinavian quintet Atomic hurl together Ornette Coleman's free-jazz legacy, Carla Bley's ironic solemnities, Latin, postbop, circus-band cavortings and much more. Pianist Håvard Wiik and saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist share the composing... more info

Guardian Music — In this first of a series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from the past few weeks. Tell us in the comments section below if there's things we've missed, plus what you'd like to see John covering in next month's colum... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "Colin Stetson was crazy good at Glasslands. Like putting Ornette Coleman under a powerful microscope and throwing him off the jazz deep end." - Liam A Colin Stetson at SXSW 2011 (more by Ryan Barkan) Colin Stetson and Arcade Fire's... more info

Guardian Music — Graham Coxon on his new album A+E, Blur's Hyde Park Olympics gig and his reaction to last summer's riots'My default setting is nine years old," says Graham Coxon, 43, as he wolfs down a cheese and ham toastie in a Camden brasserie. And there is somet... more info