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Brad Mehldau Trio – review

4476 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonPianist Brad Mehldau is a cerebral sort. He's a superb classical technician, someone who can turn jazz standards into Bach-like fugues, all spidery left-hand arpeggios and complex right-hand workouts. But his USP has been to balance a... more info

Tame Impala and Jack de Johnette

4476 days ago
Guardian MusicAlexis and Kieran are joined this week by Charlotte Richardson Andrews – and no time is wasted before a heated debate around Rihanna's latest release. There's also a touch of the French Elvis, Johnny Hallyday, who is Alexis's new favourite thing.Ri... more info

Five decades of radio requests

4477 days ago
Guardian MusicFor nearly 50 years, Radio 3's Jazz Record Requests has been broadcasting the best of the genre. Now a new chapter in its history begins with a show from the London jazz festivalJohn Taylor runs England's most northerly jazz club at Ashington, near N... more info

Team Obama: election night playlist

4486 days ago
Guardian MusicAs the world waits to discover the results of the 2012 US election, what should Barack Obama supporters be listening to?As America goes the polls to decide who will be its next president, one vital question dominates debate: what's the best music to ... more info

This week's new live music

4496 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Walkmen, on tourThe Walkmen have always seemed older than their years. In part this has been down to what we know of their backgrounds in Jonathan Fire*Eater, a mid-90s group whose brilliance was hobbled by narcotic baggage. From the off, though,... more info

Portishead's Adrian Utley: my Sonic Journey through ancient trees

4507 days ago
Guardian MusicThe musician writes about his latest project, a soundtrack to a stroll among ancient trees to be played as the public follow in his footstepsI am very keen on walking. I have spent a lot of time walking in wild spaces over the years. It's a meditativ... more info

John Tchicai

4511 days ago
Guardian MusicDanish-born saxophonist at the heart of the 'new thing' jazz movement of the 1960sWhen the saxophonist John Tchicai, who has died aged 76, performed with local musicians at the Red Rose in Finsbury Park, north London, in 2005, the show was sold out l... more info

Letters: An awful racket? No, jazz is a joy

4513 days ago
Guardian MusicWhile Les Garner is probably not the only Guardian reader to regard jazz as "an awful racket", his suggestion that the music is "played and sung by those who can neither play nor sing in tune" hints at either aberrant critical faculties on his part o... more info

Miles Davis Quintet: Swiss Radio Days – review

4530 days ago
Guardian Music(TCB)Davis completed recording the most celebrated jazz album in history, the revolutionary Kind of Blue, in April 1959. It changed the way jazz would be played and heard from then on. He was still working through its implications a year later, when ... more info

Carlos Santana to publish memoir

4539 days ago
Guardian MusicGuitarist will tell his life story 'to help readers discover the sanctity, grace, and divinity in themselves'Carlos Santana has joined the parade of musicians writing their memoirs. The Grammy award-winning guitarist will publish his autobiography in... more info

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