Jazz
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Editors' picks
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A history of jazz in 50 key moments, as chosen by Guardian and Observer writers Find the Guardian's full history of modern music
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10 Jan 2012: by John Dugdale
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8 Jan 2012: This live recording of Stan Getz, lost for 50 years, captures him at his fluent, inventive best, writes Dave Gelly
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7 Jan 2012:
Lanterns On The Lake | Out To Lunch Arts Festival | Houston Person | Ian Shaw And Friends | Sergei Prokofiev: Man Of The People? | Alexander Goehr
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6 Jan 2012: The rhythmically attuned Sons of Kemet are already a contender for the best of 2012 lists, writes John Fordham
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5 Jan 2012: Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn off
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5 Jan 2012:
Based very loosely on The Wizard of Oz, their new album is their most adventurous to date, writes Robin Denselow
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5 Jan 2012: There's some awesome sax playing from David Murray on this disc that celebrates dreams from black America, writes John Fordham
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5 Jan 2012: An eerie treatment of Radiohead and a wistful Moon River mingle in a dreamy tribute to Sigmund Freud, writes John Fordham
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3 Jan 2012:
Actor says his long anticipated film will be a 'cubist' take on the jazz legend's later life and not a conventional biopic
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2 Jan 2012: What can Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach entrepreneurs? Quite a lot, say Warwick academics
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30 Dec 2011:
Influential American jazz multi-instrumentalist who remained at the cutting edge
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30 Dec 2011:
The Guardian's music team, headed by Alexis Petridis, offer their tips on what to look out for in the year ahead
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24 Dec 2011:
Cymbals Eat Guitars | Darren Hayman | Liane Carroll | National Youth Orchestra
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22 Dec 2011:
Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn off
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22 Dec 2011: Jazz pianist Allen's festive album is a full-on celebration of Christian songs and carols, though her skill and imagination lifts it beyond the banal, writes John Fordham
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Latest album reviews
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22 Dec 2011Swells of sound with lustrous textural effects from this extraordinary sound-painting Norwegian trio, writes John Fordham
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22 Dec 2011A lost recording from 1959 of Getz at his swing-era swaggering best, accompanied by pianist Jan Johansson, is a real gem, writes John Fordham
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22 Dec 2011Guitarist Martino has been burning through a hard-bop, soul-infused repertoire for 40 years, in spite of illness. He is at his most compelling and dexterous here, writes John Fordham
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15 Dec 2011An exhilarating 70th birthday concert recording makes for a fine celebration of this extraordinary piano player, writes John Fordham
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15 Dec 2011This boxset of all five Art of the Trio albums by Brad Meldhau and cohorts is the definitive representation of the private world they created, writes John Fordham
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27 Sep 2011Response: Without firms like mine being able to make a profit, rare recordings would be lost, says Roger Armstrong
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30 Nov 2010Jonathan Freedland: No governments are shaken by Snow Patrol; the FBI has no interest in Gary Barlow. Where are today's political popstars?
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8 May 2009
Avoid mud, children and modern jazz and you might just enjoy yourself in style, says Stephen Moss
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30 Dec 2008
From Bad Collision's one-off UK performance at the Vortex to Gateshead International Jazz Festival
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13 Nov 2008
Open thread: Mitch Mitchell, brilliantly innovative drummer with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, has died. Was he the greatest of all time?
Latest live reviews
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16 Dec 2011The entertaining funk and pop classic outfit Brass Jaw were preceded by a cannily inventive set from the coolly lyrical sax improviser Andy Sheppard, writes John Fordham
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7 Dec 2011Obara's free-jazz group has discipline and a sense of narrative shape – and it set the young audience smiling, writes John Fordham
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28 Nov 2011This concert saw pianist John Tilbury and AMM tackle five piano pieces and an intense, hour-long improvisation, writes John L Walters
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21 Nov 2011A single rehearsal just before the gig alas wasn't enough to fuse even this crack team, but the outcome was still an exhilarating piece of wizardry, writes, John Fordham
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21 Nov 2011This 81-year-old is still capable of ear-shredding explorations on the sax that would shame artists a quarter his age, writes John Lewis
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