Guardian Music — Controversial jazz composer and arranger best known for his work with Stan KentonIn the days when virtual wars were waged over the direction of jazz, the composer and arranger Pete Rugolo was stationed just behind the front line. Rugolo, who has die... more info

Guardian Music — Composer's 75th birthday to be celebrated with compilation featuring Memory Tapes, Amon Tobin and Tyondai BraxtonSome of the world's best electronic musicians are to celebrate composer Philip Glass's 75th birthday on a new remix album.Produced by Bec... 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

Guardian Music — Judith Mackrell chooses her favourite videos of legendary choreographer Lucinda Childs – from her collaborations with Philip Glass to a tribute to the great Merce CunninghamThis Einstein on the Beach documentary comes in three segments on YouTube, ... more info

Guardian Music — We run down the most overused repeat offenders, from REM's Everybody Hurts to Blur's Song 2 – but which did we miss?No one expects experimental new music to accompany TV montages of people sobbing in slow motion or wearily sanding floors. But latel... more info

Guardian Music — National Museum of Flight, East FortunePhilip Glass's 1988 "science fiction music drama", as he termed it, has remained a rarity despite the current fad for Glass revivals. Maybe that's because it's hard to match the original site-specific setting: 1... more info

Mercury News, California — The first of two retrospectives of the composer's music showed him to be a '60s boy at heart: exploding suns, rattling riffs, Indian-inspired rhythms more info

Mercury News, California — Other musicians bring out detail at Days, Nights event more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, EdinburghA short stint in Edinburgh during festival time, even in fine weather which for the most part it decidedly wasn't, can leave you like a ship struggling against a powerful headwind. On day one, the experience of fighting off a... more info

Guardian Music — What of opera today? We look at the last few decades and find not only the stories, but the music and the very form itself have been reinventedAt the beginning of the 20th century, when modernism began to undermine the basic grammar of music, some of... more info