Detroit Free Press — Now here's a great idea: Inventive Detroit pianist, composer and arranger Scott Gwinnell has been digging deep into music by Herbie Hancock and will premiere his new arrangements with his 10-piece group tonight at the Jazz Café at Music Hall. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — White Hills at Terminal 5 (more by BBG) White Hills will welcome their previously mentioned new LP Frying on this Rock on March 20th via Thrill Jockey. It was recorded by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Brian Eno, Swans, Herbie Hancock,... more info

Guardian Music — Actor says his long anticipated film will be a 'cubist' take on the jazz legend's later life and not a conventional biopicAlmost two years after it was announced that Don Cheadle would direct a film about Miles Davis, taking the lead role himself, th... more info

Guardian Music — (Emarcy)French multi-reeds virtuoso Michel Portal, a dance-band player who became a contemporary-classical soloist, then a jazz composer and improviser for over a half-century in music, is also a London jazz festival guest on 14 November. Bailador re... more info

Guardian Music — People music somehow manages to express an entire decade in seven short minutes of syncopated grooving, sweet melody, angry stabs of funk and then glorious noise People Music was the first tune I properly listened to after my illness. Not the first t... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM)There's probably some arcane formula that proves the presence of trumpeter Enrico Rava, trombonist Gianlucca Petrella and young pianist Giovanni Guidi on the same session equals five stars. Petrella and Guidi made the fine We Don't Live Here Any... more info

Guardian Music — Real Estate, On tourTwenty-five years on from the arguable inception of jangling independent guitar rock as an aesthetic, Days, the second album by New Jersey's virtually unGoogleable band Real Estate, might serve as a silver jubilee commemoration. I... more info

Guardian Music — (3IO Records)With 2008's trio album The Greater Good, British pianist Robert Mitchell emerged from a frequently private musical world in which Herbie Hancock, contemporary-classical music and experimental funk edge cautiously towards each other, an... more info

Guardian Music — (Motema)With her recent Timeline Live album, the American pianist Geri Allen delivered a thrilling reminder of how exuberant and danceable contemporary jazz can be, in an unusual lineup galvanised by young New Jersey tapdancer Morris Chestnut. This a... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonTheir name sounds like the punchline to a dumb joke: what do you call Sly and the Family Stone without Sly Stone? Yet the Family Stone boasts three founding members, including saxophonist Jerry Martini, the catalyst for their fo... more info