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Marc Ribot Trio – review

4533 days ago
Guardian MusicBishopsgate Centre, LondonBoth power trio and a supergroup that spans three generations, expectations were high for this soldout concert. Drummer Chad Taylor was a lynchpin of the Chicago Underground scene and lineups that joined the dots between pos... more info

The Dozens

4539 days ago
Destination OutC.O.D. BELLS AND CHIMES Ornette Coleman Ornette at 12 Impulse : 1968 OC, alto, violin; Dewey Redman, tenor; Charlie Haden, bass; Denardo Coleman (credited as “Ornette Denardo”), drums. You’re going to like this or you’re not. But try not to b... more info

50 great moments in jazz: Ornette Coleman at Meltdown 2009

4541 days ago
Guardian MusicTo close the series, here is an inspired performance from an iconoclast who reaffirms the joy of being a jazz fanFor jazz fans in the UK, autumn is a time when pulses quicken. The London Jazz festival, the capital's biggest city-wide music festival, ... more info

Marc Copland/John Abercrombie: Speak to Me – review

4544 days ago
Guardian Music(Pirouet)When he worked in the 1970s as a sax sideman for world-jazz percussionist celebrity Chico Hamilton, Marc Copland (known as Marc Cohen in those days) had to play with rather more punch than on the recordings he has made as a pianist since the... more info

Jeff Williams: Another Time – review

4558 days ago
Guardian Music(Whirlwind)The American drummer Jeff Williams isn't a man in a hurry. Though he's been playing for four decades, he hasn't led a session of his own in 10 years, and has spent much of the last two developing the New York quartet on this album. It's be... more info

Joe Harriott: The Joe Harriott Story – review

4558 days ago
Guardian Music(ProperBox 160, 4 CDs)The West Indian saxophonist Joe Harriott was one of the few true innovators on a British jazz scene that mostly mimicked American models during the 1950s and early 60s. Brought up in an orphanage, Harriott came to Britain from J... more info

Brad Mehldau/Kevin Hays: Modern Music – review

4565 days ago
Guardian Music(Nonesuch)As he showed at the Wigmore Hall in duet with mandolinist Chris Thile recently, the US piano star Brad Mehldau treats one-to-one musical encounters as invitations to creativity outside his comfort zone; chances to explore worlds between con... more info

My favourite album: Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk

4595 days ago
Guardian MusicGuardian and Observer writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, John Fordham examines the brilliant corners of Thelonious MonkWhen I was discovering jazz as a student, Thelonious Monk seemed to epito... more info

First Listen: Sonny Rollins - Road Shows, Vol. 2 (album stream)

4597 days ago
Totally Fuzzy Rollins (far right) on stage at his 80th-birthday concert in New York City. Also pictured (left to right): Ornette Coleman, Christian McBride, Roy Haynes. What's the 80-year-old saxophone colossus up to now? You'd surely find out at one of ... more info

Genre busting: the origin of music categories

4600 days ago
Guardian MusicWhere did the terms retro-nuevo and skronk originate? Or hip-hop? Michaelangelo Matos runs through an exhaustive catalogue of music's phrasemakers and trendsettersMusic comes from everywhere, and so do the names we call it by. There's a longstanding... more info

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