All About Jazz — John Coltrane once said, "Let the music speak for itself." The guitarist/composer and band leader Christopher Jentsch adds an interesting twist on that subject by opting to describe himself when asked about the broader subject of how to capture his m... more info

Guardian Music — (Planet Arts)This is an unusual venture featuring the great saxophonist David Liebman with a full-blown orchestra under trumpeter Bill Warfield's direction. The band mostly operates in a Gil Evans Sketches of Spain-era mode, on four different examina... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonThe blurb for French guitarist Biréli ­Lagrène claims he has returned to his roots and "the irresistible swing of Gypsy jazz". But Lagrène can play any style of jazz guitar from the last 80 years: lead and rhythm, el... more info

All About Jazz — Ed Thigpen, Chicago-born drummer with the Oscar Peterson Trio during the famed jazz pianist's popular early-'60s period, died on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the age of seventy-nine in Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen after being ill for a long perio... more info

All About Jazz — Bret Primack, aka the Jazz Video Guy, looks back at the video he produced in 2009. Features: Billy Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Miles Davis, John Coltrane. Writer/Video Journalist Bret Primack has been at the forefront of new m... more info

Mercury News, California — The pianist, who performed for years with John Coltrane, now gigging with the legendary sax man's son, Ravi Coltrane. more info

Guardian Music — The only thing you could really expect from jazz in the noughties was the unexpectedJazz sounds different now; different from the way it sounded in the century that spawned it. It's not that over the last 10 years musicians have stopped improvising p... more info

Guardian Music — When it comes to exploiting the vibraphone's capacity for making a simple statement sound beautiful, Bobby Hutcherson has no equal. All nine of these pieces are in some way associated with John Coltrane. Hutcherson plays brilliantly on all of them bu... more info

All About Jazz — From one angle, the career of the saxophonist Steve Grossman might seem to have unfolded in reverse. He came onto the radar in 1969, playing state-of-the-art jazz-rock with Miles Davis; he was all of 18. From that sideman perch, among the most visibl... more info

All About Jazz — Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles an... more info