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Beats & Pieces – review

4658 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonBeats & Pieces, the inspired four-year-old big band, was formed from a core of Manchester music students under the wing of young composer/arranger Ben Cottrell. On its current tour's stopover at Ronnie Scott's it proved that las... more info

Album Review: Karen Dalton's '1966'

4659 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & HissWhen folk singer Karen Dalton died in 1993 at age 55, she left behind two classic but unknown records made in the late 1960s and early ’70s and featuring session players who’d done time with Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, among others. more info

How we made ... Public Image Ltd's Metal Box

4667 days ago
Guardian Music'The album was created with no talking. It's telepathy – Wobble and me just have that'Jah Wobble, bassIf it weren't for John [Lydon] I wouldn't have started playing bass. I knocked around with him in 1976. One day, he said: "I'm going to be in a ba... more info

Who Are Noel Gallagher's Psychedelic Friends, Amorphous Androgynous?

4671 days ago
Stopcryingyourheartout.comNoel Gallagher: not the staid three-chord classicist some perhaps thought, it turns out. Created in tandem with his High Flying Birds solo album, the man they call The Chief has a second record under his own name out this year and it'll sound (litera... more info

Ahmad Jamal: Blue Moon – review

4677 days ago
Guardian Music(Jazz Village)Pianist Ahmad Jamal (a man even Miles Davis credited as a big influence) is now 81 – and he remains a genius at the art of motivic improvising, repeating a catchy theme (so listeners don't lose the plot) while transforming it with fre... more info

The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss by Nick Coleman – review

4678 days ago
Guardian MusicA veteran music writer tells how he reconnected with the soundtrack of his life after suffering sudden hearing lossWhat is the opposite of music? Before reading Nick Coleman's affecting memoir, my temptation might have been to suggest unthinkingly th... more info

DJ Handi's Archive Picks: Hello Fred, Goodbye Jimmy And Etta

4684 days ago
WFMU's Beware of the BlogScott Williams played two pieces of spacey music, one from big band leader Don Ellis, then one from The North Sea. Ellis specialized in complex time signatures, and was using electronics on his albums two years before Miles Davis made... more info

Miles Davis - Edith Piaf & Miles Davis Set For Joint Stamp Tributes In U.S. And France

4684 days ago
ContactMusicLate legends Miles Davis and Edith Piaf are to be honoured this summer Jun12 with an international stamp tribute Officials at the U S Postal Service and their counterparts at Frances La Poste will issue new Forever stamps saluting the two stars... more info

Andre Canniere Group: Forward Space - review

4686 days ago
Guardian Music(Whirlwind)Andre Canniere is a versatile young New York trumpeter, jazz/classical crossover composer and film-score writer who moved to London in 2008. This is his first UK recording, with local musicians. Listeners to the music of Tim Berne, or Stev... more info

In rotation: Ruthie Foster's 'Let It Burn'

4689 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & HissTo call Ruthie Foster a blues singer is to miss a big chunk of her allure as a vocal stylist, one who draws from a range of influences on her deep, soulful new album “Let It Burn.” Recording in New Orleans with Grammy-winning producer John Chelew... more info

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