Guardian Music — Various venuesThe 10-day London Jazz Festival ends tonight, leaving the capital's jazz community more than usually dazed and confused. We all start off making long and impractical wish lists and end up defeated by musical indigestion and, with the mo... more info

The Music Fix — News: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been creating music together for more than fifteen years with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and The Dirty Three. More recently, the duo have collaborated on soundtracks for The Proposition (2005) and The Assassinatio... more info

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall is returning to the West End stage in the Noel Coward comedy Private Lives. more info

BBC News - UK — Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall is returning to the West End stage in the Noel Coward comedy Private Lives. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — He is a rare actor -- one who doesn't seek fame. Although he's collected plenty of critical acclaim for his roles in such movies as "Lars and the Real Girl" an... more info

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Scotsman.com — THE Calendar Girls stage show has earned more than £150,000 for Leukaemia Research during its UK tour and run at the Noel Coward Theatre. more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonWS Gilbert was always concerned that Patience would date much sooner than his other collaborations with Sullivan. That isn't quite the case, though it has become a rarity. It also comes across as something of a problem piece.... more info

All About Jazz — Inner City Records is pleased to announce the re-release of three albums by Dick Hyman. Never before available on CD and quite rare even on vinyl, these albums represent some of the earliest recording efforts by a cornerstone of the jazz scene. Th... more info

Allmusic Blog — Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane Elvis Costello has spent the back half of his career flitting from style to style, recording everything from opera to R&B, but he avoided the country-folk of 1986’s King of America until 2009, when he te... more info