Guardian Music — (F-IRE)The Roller Trio are the latest group of technically awesome young genre-bending firebrands to have emerged from the whirring production line of Leeds's new-music scene. Like that city's now famous (and sometimes feared) thrash-improv outfit, t... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonWorld Service Project, pianist/composer Dave Morecroft's prize-winning young contemporary-jazz band, sounds more aptly named every time they stage Match & Fuse. They invented the inspired border-crossing idea last September, matching a ... more info

Guardian Music — (Naim Edge)The Leeds-based, avant-funk threesome trioVD (former Acoustic Ladyland guitarist Chris Sharkey, saxophonist Christophe de Bézenac and drummer Chris Bussey) like keeping things tight – their 2009 Fill It Up With Ghosts album ran to barel... more info

Guardian Music — Various venuesI am ending the night in a ramshackle Old Street basement blazing with incandescent noise from thrash-jazz outfit trioVD. This comes right after an evening of elegant grand-piano jazz around the corner at the Barbican. Such behaviour is... more info

Altsounds — Cult experimental Leeds outfit trioVD are set to release 'X', a conceptual EP inspired by the TV series X Factor on November 13th via Naim Jazz.

 They have crafted an EP consisting of four songs inspired by the four personalities that make up t... more info

Guardian Music — (Brooke Records)London avant-funk group World Service Project have recently been touring Scandinavia and the UK with Norwegian prog-jazzers SynKoke, and there are further dates for their Match & Fuse collaborations in November, January and March with... more info

Guardian Music — A trailblazing piece of free jazz that arrived in the revolutionary year of 1968 – and later found a fan in Bill ClintonAs this year's London Jazz festival drew to an end yesterday (21 November), my thoughts turned to how vehemently the event's div... more info

Guardian Music — Rokia Traore, On tourInteresting times in the world of "world". On the one hand, the genre must mourn the passing of one of its most passionate spokespersons, Charlie Gillett. On the other, one must delight in the constant stream of impressive new mu... more info