Guardian Music — By the 60s, British jazz no longer sounded like an American clone. Among the works that took the genre to new heights, Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood still reigns supremeWhen Wynton Marsalis appeared at a Barbican tribute concert to the late Sir John ... more info

The Telegraph — The saxophonist Sonny Rollins, one of the all-time greats of jazz, is on an 80th birthday world tour and still blowing strong more info

All About Jazz — One can only bow to the master. Drummer Roy Haynes has played with a who's who of jazz greats over the course of his long career: Lester Young, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, J... more info

All About Jazz — The Sheldon Concert Hall and Metrotix are offering a two-for-one discount on tickets for the concert by saxophonist Victor Goines (pictured) this Saturday, November 14 at the Sheldon. Billed as "The Two Sides of Sonny," the concert will feature Goin... more info

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating David S. Ware's birthday today! David S. WareDavid S. Ware has been playing the saxophone for over 40 years. First in New Jersey public school bands, and in informal practice sessions with Sonny Rollins as a youth in t... more info

Guardian Music — As the Scottish and French jazz orchestras descend on the capital for this year's London jazz festival, John Fordham asks if it's about time the host nation followed suitIf you'd been hijacked to another galaxy some time around 1925, right in the mi... more info

Guardian Music — Appreciation of the saxophonist's work came just a few years after his untimely death in 1970They called him "Bicycle Horn" for his wild, atonal sound back in his hometown of Cleveland in the 1950s. In an era in which a good deal of jazz was getting ... more info

All About Jazz — The Chinese Lunar Calendar considers 2010 as the Year of the Tiger, but in the jazz calendar this is the Year of the Colossus. Why? All of the deserved attention focused on tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who turned 80 on September 7—still a vi... more info

All About Jazz — 42ND VOLL-DAMM BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL FEATURING SONNY ROLLINS' 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION The 42nd Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival is set to commence Wednesday, November 3rd through Thursday, December 2nd. This month l... more info

Guardian Music — (Intuition)If stars were given out for consummate mastery of a musical instrument, Jerry Bergonzi would score five every time he picks up the sax. The American virtuoso stuns his fellow practitioners, without necessarily always engaging the hearts an... more info