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

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

Guardian Music — Antony 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

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

Guardian Music — Willis 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

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

Guardian Music — Read 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

Guardian Music — Tacuma 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