Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonThe influential New York saxophonist Tim Berne writes music of byzantine intricacy, but intends it for improvisers, who must follow his mathematically meticulous mazes while remaining alert to any tempting diversion. Berne likes Motown ... more info

Guardian Music — Willis Earl Beal, LondonThe life of an "outsider artist" is genuinely lived on a knife edge. If things go well, you could find yourself like Willis Earl Beal, signed to a quality UK label such as XL. If they don't, you remain a homeless person, shout... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonBaptiste Trotignon, the 37-year-old jazz pianist from Paris, was the original inspiration for the Partager festival at London's Vortex and Charlie Wright's clubs – an event that has recently been joining American, French and British m... more info

Guardian Music — Take a look at the gigs our writers will be reviewing this week, and tell us about live music you've seen recentlyEach week we publish a list of concerts our writers will be covering in the next few days, and we invite you to tell us about the shows ... more info

Guardian Music — Django Django, On tourA great trick pulled off by the Beta Band – the adventurous but doomed nearly-men of the post-Britpop landscape – was to throw a great many deeply psychedelic shadows, all the while making an essentially well-polished kind o... more info

Guardian Music — Kurt Vile, On tourKurt Vile is a man who has made apathy his mission statement but who has seen this anti-attitude get him quite a long way. A native of Philadelphia, and a former member of the no less great The War On Drugs, Vile (his real name) mak... more info

Core News — “DnB producer Lynx drops by with some tunes, plus Fabio has a load of new music from the likes of Flaco, Supreme Being, Mind Vortex, Furney, Blade and Commix. We also enter the Quiet Storm for an extended mix and Grooverider steals five minutes to ... more info

Guardian Music — (ASC)Julian Joseph is a world-class jazz pianist with large-scale compositional skills and a passport to the contemporary-classical world. So it's surprising that he hasn't recorded in more than 15 years. Equally unexpected is his decision to return ... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, DalstonOne of the hippest of new UK bands – Sons of Kemet, a quirky quartet for sax, tuba and two drummers – showed a rammed Vortex jazz club why it's almost certain to dominate the best of 2012 lists at the end of the year. Beanpole saxi... more info

Guardian Music — Shoreditch Church, LondonThe first concert of this year's Spitalfields Music Winter festival, given by the London Contemporary Orchestra under conductor Hugh Brunt, included a new commission from the 30-year-old Scottish composer Martin Suckling. His... more info