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

Detroit Free Press — Anyone concerned that a recent leadership change at the top of the Detroit Jazz Festival might mean a lowering of artistic ambitions or an increase in commercial crossover styles can breathe a sigh of relief. more info

Guardian Music — (Cadillac)Mike Osborne was one of the most adventurous saxophonists to emerge from the transitional 1960s/70s period in British jazz – after the strict harmonic rules of bebop were transformed by the free jazz of Ornette Coleman. Osborne worked in ... more info

Guardian Music — (Edition)Josh Arcoleo is a prizewinning saxophonist from the Royal Academy of Music's jazz stable, and a debut on the astute Edition label (which has introduced, among others, young Norwegian sax firebrand Marius Neset) is no accident. Arcoleo is onl... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonHouston Person, the burly and bluesily expressive American tenorist, learned his craft in the early 1950s, a time when some of the earliest pioneers of jazz saxophone – Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster... more info

ContactMusic — Neil Diamond was among those honoured in Washington over the weekend the performer receiving one of the most prestigious arts awards in America after being given a Kennedy Center Honour alongside actress Meryl Streep jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins ce... more info