All About Jazz — Bassist Charnett Moffett grew up in a musical family. Which is to say, his dad played with Ornette Coleman and the whole Moffett family band was touring the world when Charnett was a kid. More than two decades later, Charnett is bringing that family ... more info

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating Tomasz Stanko's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Tomasz StankoTomasz Stanko was 20 and a graduate of the Cracow Music Academy when he formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with pianist Adam Makowicz in 1962.... more info

Guardian Music — (Download from cadizmusic.co.uk)As might be expected from the work of untameable Bromley guitar legend Billy Jenkins, this trilogy contains demented guitar solos, vocal choruses like a pub on a Saturday night, and chirpy kids attempting to sing throu... more info

Guardian Music — Free-jazz saxophonist devoted to his hometown of ChicagoNew Orleans and New York are usually the frontrunners for iconic jazz towns, but Chicago comes very close. Louis Armstrong and the pioneering New Orleans jazz wave moved there in the northward m... more info

All About Jazz — Most people are unaware that in 1960, Newport, R.I., hosted not one but two jazz festivals. There was the big one that had been produced by George Wein since 1954. And there was a smaller, alternative festival put on by Charles Mingus. But after the ... more info

Guardian Music — (Jazzwerkstatt)Some recordings are so unabashedly about the idiosyncrasies of the improvisers, specific references and the simplicity of the session that it's hard to see anyone but the faithful getting the point. This set, featuring clarinettist Per... more info

All About Jazz — Congratulations to Ornette Coleman! Ann Arbor, MI -- May 2010 -- Music legend Ornette Coleman received an honorary doctorate of music from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation of the School ... more info

Guardian Music — Folk legend Richard Thompson reflects on his line-up for Britain's most eclectic summer festival"It's a lovely thing," says Richard Thompson. "Who wouldn't relish an opportunity like this? It's an opportunity for me to show off some of my favourite a... more info

Guardian Music — (Zig Zag Territoires)The antecedents of this recording (an academic study that took French saxophonist Imbert to New York to investigate spiritual influences in jazz) might suggest a rather more long-faced outcome than this exuberant trio set, which ... more info

All About Jazz — Matt Wilson unveiled an expanded version of his working group at Iridium on Wednesday night or maybe it was two groups, depending on the whim of the moment. Near the end of the first set, it was possible to imagine a borderline across the stage, a... more info