Guardian Music — Philip Larkin loved trad jazz. John Harris grew up thinking nothing before bebop was worth listening to. So he tried to discover the appeal of Ellington and Basie"I can live a week without poetry," Philip Larkin said in 1965, "but not a day without j... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz violinist whose playing had a powerful lyrical sense and a mischievous streakAs the instrument often taken to represent the soul of western classical music, the violin has seemed untouchable to many jazz artists. However, a few have sidestepped ... more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, CheltenhamAn American saxophone legend wearing the mantle of John Coltrane, a virtuosic British duo working the cracks between jazz and modern chamber-music, and a star jazz eccentric were among Saturday's confirmations of the Chelten... more info

Topix — John Coltrane, Ray Charles celebrated as part of 'Impulse! Nights' at the Jazz Standard. more info

Guardian Music — (Cuneiform) The presence of John Coltrane looms over this session – a previously unreleased TV show made for NDR in Hamburg in 1969, almost two years after Coltrane had died. The British saxophonist John Surman (then a 24-year-old rising star) was... more info

Guardian Music — A Coltrane devotee who liked Brubeck's Take Five? Anthony Braxton has always been at odds with orthodox jazz thinkingIn the 1980s, after a period of eclipse by fusion, more traditional approaches to jazz were in resurgence – a subject I'll return t... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Radio Free Wohlman said... Transmission 4111 One musical door leads to another. Crack open your mind and jam with Mother Superior, Dwight Twilley, The Beatles, John Cale, Motorpycho, James Blood Ulmer/Bill Laswell/Ronald Shannon Jackson and Eric Burd... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonJoe Lovano has said that he doesn't play free jazz, he plays jazz, free. On his superb new album Bird Songs, a set of adventurous interpretations of Charlie Parker classics, the gifted American saxophonist demonstrates what he m... more info

Totally Fuzzy — GeeDee said... * Allman Brothers 2009 Beacon Run * John Coltrane - Dakar [1957] * Harmonica Blues [Blues From The 20-30's] * Sun Ra Arkestra - Unity - Live at the Storyville [1977] * This Is The Blues - volumes 1. - 4. * Dexter Gordon - Generation [1... more info

Totally Fuzzy — L'Homme Scalp said... LES TONTONS SCALPEURS are worried about the 'End Of The World' and are sincerely sorry for their friend in Japan - Last show covered last days obsessions (nuclear disaster, Japanese music, synth-made music, peacefull folk) - LIS... more info