Read a collection of the finest writing on jazz from Guardian and Observer critics, including Kingsley Amis and Benny GreenFrom early appearances in London in 1917, to bo...
→ Posted 17 January 2.44pm — Comment on this
This jazz ebook provides a fascinating delve into the extensive Guardian and Observer archive of coverage from 1917 to the present dayBuy Kindle edition or get it as an i...
→ Posted 21 December 2011 3.36pm — Comment on this
Andy Rehfeldt: Video mash-up master Andy Rehfeldt's work garners as many as 3 million views from a single video. Mash-up victims include pop star Rihanna, whom he has sin...
→ Posted 20 December 2011 6.38pm — Comment on this
Looking for a lovingly compiled Christmas read? Then put your favourite record on and download our new ebookHere at the Guardian we take pride in the quality of our music...
→ Posted 23 November 2011 2.10pm — Comment on this
Jazz drummer who performed with Basie, Ellington and ArmstrongThe drummer Butch Ballard, who has died aged 92, was one of a handful of African-American jazz musicians who...
→ Posted 18 November 2011 4.04pm — Comment on this
As the My favourite album series concludes, we look back at the highlights and see what readers had to say about our choicesAs the My favourite album series closes with P...
→ Posted 19 October 2011 12.21pm — Comment on this
This is as good a compendium of the genius of Louis Armstrong as anyone could wish for.
→ Posted 11 August 2011 12.29pm — Comment on this
Louis Armstrong's home recordings made for an unusual, but fascinating, hour of radioIt would be, presenter Paul Sexton promised, "a very unusual hour on Radio 2". And so...
→ Posted 27 July 2011 10.30pm — Comment on this
If indeed "you blows who you is", as Louis Armstrong once famously said, then *Stephen Bruner's* bass is a mainline to the soul of a man whose DNA was transcribed from th...
→ Posted 27 June 2011 4.24pm — Comment on this
In a seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Rounding everything off, today they pick out 50 key moments in the s...
→ Posted 17 June 2011 12.59am — Comment on this
Early 1900s: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicWhether or not the cornetist Buddy Bolden invented jazz (Jelly Roll Morton is one of ...
→ Posted 17 June 2011 12.50am — Comment on this
1916: Number 3 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicLouis Armstrong bought his first cornet at a New Orleans pawnshop, when he was 15 years old....
→ Posted 17 June 2011 12.48am — Comment on this
1917: Number 4 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicJazz had been evolving for almost a decade before it was recorded – and a white New Or...
→ Posted 17 June 2011 12.47am — Comment on this
Philip Larkin loved trad jazz. John Harris grew up thinking nothing before bebop was worth listening to. So he tried to discover the appeal of Ellington and Basie"I can l...
→ Posted 21 May 2011 12.05am — Comment on this