Guardian Music — Pizza Express Jazz Club, LondonThe ways that surging adrenaline and reawakened memories ignite elderly legends when they reach the spotlight is one of the peripheral fascinations of witnessing live jazz. Sonny Rollins's bent posture straightens and h... more info

Guardian Music — (Kind of Blue)The American sax virtuoso Dave Liebman is a master who does not disguise his Coltrane inspirations, but he has rarely paraded such a wealth of saxophone homages (consciously or not) as he does here. It sounds as if the gauzy willfulness... more info

Guardian Music — Eloquent jazz vocalist who drew on the raw passion of the bluesThe reputation of Joe Lee Wilson, the jazz vocalist, who has died aged 75, never matched those of such male stars as Jon Hendricks, Mark Murphy or Kurt Elling – yet his eloquent bariton... more info

Guardian Music — 1956: Number 25 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicSonny Rollins is still a full-blown saxophone giant today at the age of 80, but they were calling him the Saxophone Colossus back in 1956.Rollins is one of the few surviv... more info

Guardian Music — October 1959: Number 29 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicAn East End Londoner, Ronnie Scott was a UK jazz star in the 1950s, playing tenor sax with an assurance that rivalled the dominant Americans. But he dreamed of a ... more info

Guardian Music — Versatile pianist and a member of a musical dynasty, he bridged the jazz generationsThe distinguished African-American pianist Ray Bryant, who has died aged 79 after a long illness, became a fixture of the jazz mainstream after enjoying a measure of... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie 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

Detroit Free Press — Detroit tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Collins met Italian saxophonist Emanuele Cisi in New York in 2007. The two found friendship and inspiration in their common post-bop styles, their similar heroes (John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, et al.) a... more info

Guardian Music — (Dreyfus)This two-CD (plus DVD) set is a better bet than last year's A Night in Monte Carlo: it celebrates the same creative funkiness of the mid-80s Miles Davis bands that bass guitar virtuoso and composer/arranger Miller had a big hand in, but here... more info

Guardian Music — As part of our new online city guides, we asked music experts to compile a playlist to their city. Here, jazz musician Olivier Hutman charts the heart and soul of Paris from Edith Piaf to Serge GainsbourgWhile compiling our new online guides to the m... more info