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4424 days ago
Guardian MusicWillis Earl Beal, LondonThe life of an "outsider artist" is genuinely lived on a knife edge. If things go well, you could find yourself like Willis Earl Beal, signed to a quality UK label such as XL. If they don't, you remain a homeless person, shout... more info

Get the Blessing: OC DC – review

4432 days ago
Guardian Music(Naim)Get the Blessing trumpeter Pete Judge says this new album finds the exuberant Portishead-powered quartet "less afraid to be itself than it used to be". With its thundering rock-bass grooves and scorching early Ornette Coleman/Don Cherry horn so... more info

Buy the Guardian ebook, Jazz: From New Orleans to the new generation

4476 days ago
Guardian MusicRead a collection of the finest writing on jazz from Guardian and Observer critics, including Kingsley Amis and Benny GreenFrom early appearances in London in 1917, to boogie woogie, bebop and beyond, the Guardian and Observer have been writing about... more info

David Murray/Jamaaladeen – review

4488 days ago
Guardian MusicTacuma Rendezvous Suite (Jazzwerkstatt)Berlin's Jazzwerkstatt label is similarly celebrating dreams with this partnership between the great American saxophonist and bass clarinetist David Murray, and sometime Ornette Coleman alter ego on bass guitar,... more info

Sam Rivers

4494 days ago
Guardian MusicInfluential American jazz multi-instrumentalist who remained at the cutting edgeThe multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers, who has died aged 88, was one of the last messengers from the 1940s bebop era and the classic decades of jazz. Accomplished on tenor... more info

Lucian Ban/John Hebert: Enescu Re-Imagined – review

4523 days ago
Guardian Music(Sunnyside)Lucian Ban is a classically trained Romanian jazz pianist and composer who in recent years has become a key figure on New York's downtown jazz scene. This album is devoted to the work of Romanian classical genius George Enescu, the violin ... more info

Keiran Hebden/Steve Reid/Mats Gustafsson: Live at the South Bank – review

4530 days ago
Guardian Music(Republic of Music)Drummer Steve Reid – who played with artists as varied as Martha and the Vandellas, James Brown, Dexter Gordon, Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman – died last year, but this live album from Ornette Coleman's 2009 Meltdown festival fi... more info

Ornette Coleman – review

4533 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonOrnette Coleman's visits to these shores have always been remarkable events, featuring collaborations with bagpipers, rappers, opera singers, orchestras and – at 2009's Meltdown festival – Patti Smith, Flea and the Root... more info

This week's new live music

4536 days ago
Guardian MusicJ Cole, On tourRather than a hard-knock life, J Cole is more about the sporting life. In his view, hip-hop is a noble endeavour involving talent and finally getting your shot, an idea explored on his mixtapes and debut album (Cole World: The Sideline... more info

London Jazz Festival: saxophone shows its star appeal

4541 days ago
Guardian MusicSteve Coleman, Steve Williamson and Chris Potter reveal instrument's depths and variationsIn deference to the ways of the world, the London Jazz Festival might have cannily foregrounded pop-oriented singers in its opening days – but the real star h... more info

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