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Top jazz and world-music picks for autumn

5094 days ago
Guardian MusicWayne Shorter headlines a much-anticipated gig, followed by the London Jazz festival in November, while the blind duo Amadou and Mariam tell their life story – in the darkWayne Shorter Quartet and PhronesisA much-anticipated gig from sax star Short... more info

Barry Harris – review

5099 days ago
Guardian MusicPizza Express Jazz Club SohoBarry Harris, the jazz musician who worked alongside pioneers from Coleman Hawkins to Miles Davis and roomed with Thelonious Monk, has been playing the piano for 77 years. He still exhibits the relaxed fluency that experie... more info

Michael Mantler: For Two – review

5124 days ago
Guardian Music(ECM) Vienna-born composer Michael Mantler came to prominence on the American free-jazz scene in the late 1960s, with challenging music for the improv piano virtuoso Cecil Taylor. Since his return to Europe in the 1990s, however, he has favoured a ... more info

Pentangle – review

5126 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonBy pulling together folk, jazz and blues into evocative, melodic albums, Pentangle were ahead of the curve in the late 1960s. An early "supergroup", they set the scene for more celebrated artists. Long before singer-songwri... more info

Bugge Wesseltoft/Henrik Schwarz: Wesseltoft/Schwarz Duo – review

5138 days ago
Guardian Music(Jazzland) Conversations between improvising jazz players and computer musicians have often left the former struggling to find space within the machine's strutting rigidities, or the latter clacking hopefully along behind jazz's athleticism. This dia... more info

John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis :: Bank Robbery

5141 days ago
Aquarium DrunkardA high point on the soundtrack to director Dennis Hopper’s 1990 film The Hot Spot, “Bank Robbery” finds John Lee Hooker collaborating with Miles Davis alongside Taj Mahal, Roy Rogers, Earl Palmer, and Tim Drummond. Scored by Jack Nitzchse, the ... more info

Joe Lee Wilson obituary

5142 days ago
Guardian MusicEloquent jazz vocalist who drew on the raw passion of the bluesThe reputation of Joe Lee Wilson, the jazz vocalist, who has died aged 75, never matched those of such male stars as Jon Hendricks, Mark Murphy or Kurt Elling – yet his eloquent bariton... more info

Montreux fetes Miles Davis with "soundtrack" to his life

5146 days ago
ReutersMONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Marcus Miller paid tribute to their friend and mentor Miles Davis, performing a "songtrack to the life" of the late American trumpet player whose music electrified the world of jazz.... more info

John McLaughlin – review

5147 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonJohn McLaughlin, the Yorkshire-born musician who found himself on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew in 1969 and became a guitar legend, has returned to Ronnie Scott's for the first time in 44 years. Musing on the late proprietor's like... more info

Betty Davis :: If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up

5154 days ago
Aquarium DrunkardBetty Davis’s funk banger “If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up,” culled from her 1973 self-titled LP. I caught this  jam at a party last weekend, hearing it for what must have been the first time in over a year. There is a reason Betty, Mil... more info

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