ContactMusic — A representative for British violinist NIGEL KENNEDY has blasted reports the musician was arrested by German police last month (Sep10) on suspicion of using drugs.Cops... more info

The Mirror — Two people were arrested for drugs offences when German police raided a party hosted by violinist Nigel Kennedy. more info

Guardian Music — Southbank Centre, LondonNigel Kennedy may be the Michael Jackson of classical music: a prodigy whose boy-man persona is essential to his success. And if Jackson had Neverland, Kennedy has Poland. Thrilled by his adopted homeland's culture, he has tur... more info

The Telegraph — Violinist Nigel Kennedy, about to celebrate his beloved Poland at London's Southbank, talks to Peter Culshaw about his passion for blending jazz and classical music. more info

Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - Nigel Kennedy can't be classical music's bad boy anymore at age 53 even if he does still sport a mohawk, kick soccer balls into the audience and sprinkle the "f" word into every other sentence. more info

The Telegraph — Quintet: Shhh! is an engaging ramble around Nigel-land. Rating: * * * more info

Guardian Music — John Pilgrim writes: Diz Disley (obituary, 16 April) was a complex, multi-talented man for whom varied areas of expression – musical, visual and verbal – came perhaps too easily for his own good. And he took great trouble to help musici... more info

Guardian Music — Violinist and Polish jazz band to improvise during screening of match as part of Southbank festival of Polish cultureIt was one of the most traumatic matches in England's football history, the one where that "clown" Jan Tomaszewski made save after sa... more info

Guardian Music — (RCA)Nikolaj Znaider has the good ­fortune to play an extraordinary violin – the 1741 Guarnerius del Gesu that once belonged to Fritz Kreisler – that ­Kreisler used for the premiere of the ­Elgar concerto, with the composer Â... more info

Guardian Music — Beak>, On tourIt takes Portishead 10 long and fairly painful years to make an album. Strangely, though, for Beak>, the project of Geoff Barrow, Portishead's disarmingly un-starry producer, the whole process seems a good deal less fraught. In fact, fo... more info