Guardian Music — Royal 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

Guardian Music — J 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

Guardian Music — Steve 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

Guardian Music — Bishopsgate 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

Destination Out — C.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

Guardian Music — To 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

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

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

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

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