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First Listen: Sonny Rollins - Road Shows, Vol. 2 (album stream)

5152 days ago
Totally Fuzzy Rollins (far right) on stage at his 80th-birthday concert in New York City. Also pictured (left to right): Ornette Coleman, Christian McBride, Roy Haynes. What's the 80-year-old saxophone colossus up to now? You'd surely find out at one of ... more info

Weather Report: Live in Offenbach – review

5170 days ago
Guardian Music(Art of Groove)Previously unreleased recordings from pioneering fusion band Weather Report playing live in the 1970s are streaming from the late Joe Zawinul's estate in the group's 40th anniversary year. This spring's 1975 Live in Berlin set caught t... more info

Mose Allison – review

5176 days ago
Guardian MusicPizza 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

Liebman/Swallow/Nussbaum/We3 Amazing – review

5184 days ago
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

Joe Lee Wilson obituary

5194 days ago
Guardian MusicEloquent 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

Sonny Rollins records Saxophone Colossus

5225 days ago
Guardian Music1956: 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

Ronnie Scott's opens

5225 days ago
Guardian MusicOctober 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

Ray Bryant obituary

5234 days ago
Guardian MusicVersatile 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

Ambrose Akinmusire – review

5253 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

Saxophonists Chris Collins, Emanuele Cisi to team up at Dirty Dog Jazz Café

5254 days ago
Detroit Free PressDetroit 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

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