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Michel Legrand – review

4713 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonMichel Legrand's unique songs still glow long after many of the movies they were written for have vanished. (Other movies haven't: the multi-Grammy-winning composer and jazz pianist's hits also include The Thomas Crowne Affair, ... more info

Robert Glasper – review

4723 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonLast November, young American pianist Robert Glasper managed to boil down much of the eclectic and improvisatory spirit of the London jazz festival into a single concert. The gig was primarily a vehicle for the pianist's cutting... more info

This week's new live music

4732 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Kills, ManchesterNow that the White Stripes are sadly no more, the Kills – whose singer Alison Mosshart also appears with Jack White in the Dead Weather – have succeeded them as the world's premier scuzz-rock duo who used to sleep together bu... more info

Ambrose Akinmusire – review

4732 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonThe 29-year-old Californian trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire sets the mind searching for comparisons – and in his case, they're with some of the biggest names in the most African-American incarnations of jazz, Miles Davis included... more info

Guardian critic named jazz journalist of the year

4734 days ago
Guardian MusicJohn Fordham wins top prize at 2011 Parliamentary jazz awardsGuardian critic John Fordham was won the title of jazz journalist of the year at the 2011 Parliamentary jazz awards. Billed as "Britain's premier awards for the jazz community and jazz fans... more info

Friendly Fires swap Paris for Pala … and a butterfly centre in St Albans

4739 days ago
Guardian MusicDance-rockers lived it up at fashion parties, flew over Rio in a helicopter, then returned to the garage for follow-up to the Mercury-nominated Friendly FiresSee the feature as it appears in The Guide hereJack Savidge, the mild-mannered drummer of Fr... more info

Eddie Palmieri and the Afro-Caribbean Jazz Stars – review

4750 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonRepetition is key to most forms of dance, from deep house to The Rite of Spring – an explicit pulse that keeps limbs in motion. Eddie Palmieri's brand of "Nuyorican" Afro-Caribbean music can be as sophisticated and complex as ... more info

Jaroussky/L'Arpeggiata/Pluhar – review

4755 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonCountertenor Philippe Jaroussky's latest project is a quirky collaboration with L'Arpeggiata and its theorbo-playing founder-director, Christina Pluhar. Entitled Teatro d'Amore, it examines the roles of ground basses and neo-Plato... more info

John Surman: Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop – April 69 – review

4768 days ago
Guardian Music(Cuneiform) The presence of John Coltrane looms over this session – a previously unreleased TV show made for NDR in Hamburg in 1969, almost two years after Coltrane had died. The British saxophonist John Surman (then a 24-year-old rising star) was... more info

Joe Lovano Us Five – review

4783 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonJoe Lovano has said that he doesn't play free jazz, he plays jazz, free. On his superb new album Bird Songs, a set of adventurous interpretations of Charlie Parker classics, the gifted American saxophonist demonstrates what he m... more info

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