Guardian Music — How many roads must a man walk down, before he hails a cab? Bob Dylan could never answer thatOK, this column is often written by and for old blokes trying to remember what it was like to be young, or – in my case – what it was like when I had hai... more info

Guardian Music — A catalogue of mod-friendly bands and brands reflects the materialistic impulses of the 60s youth movementSanjeev Bhaskar used to play an old man in Goodness Gracious Me who insisted that every major public figure was Indian. Paolo Hewitt is a bit li... more info

Guardian Music — (Dreyfus)This is bass-guitar star Marcus Miller's UK-tour repertoire of last month, plus a few bonuses, including the finely spun vocals of young New Yorker Gretchen Parlato and the rasping ones of Dr John on two tracks. For jazz-funk fans, it's para... more info

ContactMusic — Guitarist Pete Cosey who worked extensively with jazz icon Miles Davis has died at the age of 68 He passed away on Wednesday morning 30May12 of unknown causes The musician was a session guitarist with Chess Records during the 1960s and played o... more info

Guardian Music — LSO St Luke's, LondonThe seeds of Norwegian jazz and improvising trumpeter Arve Henriksen's cross-genre collaboration with Oslo's early-music vocal group Trio Mediæval were planted 18 years ago, when Henriksen's countryman Jan Garbarek hitched post-... more info

Guardian Music — Chic guitarist, songwriter and producer regrets not taking up jazz legend Miles Davis's request to write him a hitThe single biggest mistake of my entire life was not taking Miles Davis seriously when he said: "Write me a motherfucking 'Good Times'"... more info

Guardian Music — Sharon Van Etten, On tourIt's hard to imagine that anyone this year will write a relationship song quite as powerful as Sharon Van Etten's Give Out. Someone who writes from the heart, about the heart, Van Etten's current album Tramp is a bag of bones... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM)This is an unusual ECM release – a journey back to guitarist's guitarist John Abercrombie's formative 1960s influences, in the music of Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis and Bill Evans. But the implications of the titl... more info

Guardian Music — Cheltenham jazz festivalA circus big top felt like just the right place to hear that breathtaking trapeze-artist of the bass guitar, Marcus Miller – the Cheltenham Jazz Festival having vacated its worthy town hall annexes in favour of an upbeat ca... more info

Guardian Music — Twice a week we invite independent music writers and bloggers to tell us about what they do. Today, a site celebrating music-related designWho are you and what's your blog called?Colin Buttimer – Hard Format.Where are you based?London. Describe you... more info