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Mike Osborne Trio: The Birmingham Jazz Concert – review

4627 days ago
Guardian Music(Cadillac)Mike Osborne was one of the most adventurous saxophonists to emerge from the transitional 1960s/70s period in British jazz – after the strict harmonic rules of bebop were transformed by the free jazz of Ornette Coleman. Osborne worked in ... more info

Antony Hegarty to curate Meltdown 2012

4636 days ago
Guardian MusicAntony and the Johnsons singer to explore spirituality, the environment and gender politics at annual music festivalAntony Hegarty is to follow in the footsteps of Laurie Anderson, Robert Wyatt and David Bowie by curating this year's Meltdown, the an... more info

Get the Blessing: OC DC – review

4639 days ago
Guardian Music(Naim)There are four of them, although you wouldn't call them a jazz quartet in the usual sense of the term – but neither would you call them anything else. There's so much jazz sound, jazz spirit and especially jazz humour in Get the Blessing's mu... more info

This week's new live music

4640 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

4648 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

4693 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

4704 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

4710 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

4739 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

4746 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

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