Guardian Music — (Riverside)Don Byas was a tenor-sax genius whose name never appeared in lights as bright as those of Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins or Sonny Rollins. Patchy live recordings of decades-old jazz by non-stars rarely qualify for this slot, bu... more info

Guardian Music — ECMThis enthralling double album is a previously unreleased concert set from Tokyo in 1979 and features Keith Jarrett's "European quartet" of Jan Garbarek on saxes and flute, fellow Norwegian Jon Christensen on drums and Swedish bassist Palle Daniel... more info

Starpulse — Famed saxophonist Sonny Rollins ruled the Jazz Awards in New York on Wednesday, taking home three top honors. He was named Musician Of The Year for the second year in a row and was also hailed as... more info

ContactMusic — Famed saxophonist Sonny Rollins ruled the Jazz Awards in New York on Wednesday 20Jun12 taking home three top honours He was named Musician Of The Year for the second year in a row and was also hailed as Top Tenor Saxophonist He rounded out his trio o... more info

Guardian Music — (Challenge)Thielemans is probably the best, and at 90 certainly the oldest, jazz harmonica player in the world. He gave up showing off his technique long ago and now concentrates on revealing the hidden beauties of tunes that capture his interest, in... more info

Guardian Music — If soulful stuff is what you're after, here are the best jazz fests taking place this summer up and down the countryBluesFestWhen 26 June-6 JulyWhere Various venues in London and ManchesterWhat Performers bring out the blues in their musicWho Nick Lo... more info

Guardian Music — Continuing our 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 column1) ... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM)This is an unusual ECM release – a journey back to guitarist's guitarist John Abercrombie's formative 1960s influences, in the music of Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis and Bill Evans. But the implications of the titl... more info

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

Detroit Free Press — While the Free Press already broke the news of the major national headliners for this year's Detroit Jazz Festival - a list that includes Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea - a number of other acts will be ... more info