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Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Wynton Marsalis to play at Detroit Jazz Festival

5340 days ago
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

Mike Osborne Trio: The Birmingham Jazz Concert – review

5349 days ago
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

Josh Arcoleo: Beginnings – review

5384 days ago
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

Houston Person – review

5419 days ago
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

Neil Diamond - Neil Diamond Honored By Obama In Washington

5457 days ago
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

Playlist: Willie Nile's 'One Guitar' is the top pick

5485 days ago
USA Today Music — Louvin Bros., Mark Ronson, Paul Kelly, Darondo, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Kay Kay and The Rays, Sonny Rollins are among intriguing tracks. more info

Roy Haynes: Roy-alty – review

5496 days ago
Guardian Music — (Dreyfus) Roy Haynes might be 86, but on this disc the legendary jazz drummer (who has played with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny and beyond) coolly occupies the driving seat with collaborators young enough to be his grandchildren. Hayne... more info

50 great moments in jazz: Ornette Coleman at Meltdown 2009

5499 days ago
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

Albert Ayler: Stockholm, Berlin 1966

5503 days ago
Guardian Music — (HatHut)The writer Amiri Baraka described the scorching sax sound of Albert Ayler – the free-jazz saxophonist who died in 1970, aged 34, in New York's East River – as "like the singing from a black hole". But for all its stark expressionism, Ayle... more info

Sonny Rollins: On Impulse!/There Will Never Be Another You – review Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Lady Sinner/Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus – review

5510 days ago
Guardian Music — (Impulse/Universal)It's the 50th birthday of Impulse Records, one of the most famous of all jazz labels – and famously home to John Coltrane for six years. The upcoming London Jazz festival celebrates with a concert on 12 November featuring pianist... more info

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