John Fordham

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  50 great moments in jazz: John Coltrane's giant step for improvisation

  9 Aug 2010:

  No 33: Perhaps the most influential saxophonist all of time, Coltrane produced an intensely soulful sound that reached way beyond the jazz cognoscenti

• This week's new live music

  7 Aug 2010:

  Calvin Johnson | Get Cape Wear Cape Fly | Steve Mason | Three Choirs Festival | El Niño | Orchestre National De Jazz: Around Robert Wyatt

• Céline Bonacina Trio/Nguyên Lê: Way of Life

  

  5 Aug 2010: The forms are quite conventional, but Bonacina is a vivacious player who's hit the ground running, finds John Fordham

• Eivind Aarset & the Sonic Codex Orchestra: Live Extracts

  

  5 Aug 2010: Aarset has jazz roots, but he's a sonic landscape painter in electronics, jazz-horn sounds and atmospheric percussion, says John Fordham

• Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet + 1: 3 Nights in Oslo

  

  5 Aug 2010: Different combinations of players form spontaneously to explore a remarkably wide range of moods and textures to create a virtuosic field-day for free-jazz admirers with strong nerves, says John Fordham

• John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable

  

  5 Aug 2010: Escreet's piano improvisations starting with a deceptive reflectiveness but erupt into dazzling freefall fireworks, finds John Fordham

• Neon/Taylor/Arguelles

  

  5 Aug 2010:

  Ronnie Scott's, London
  The audiences may not have known the players or the music, but their faith was handsomely rewarded, writes John Fordham

• Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments

  5 Aug 2010: From playing with Sonny Rollins to hanging out backstage wit Beyoncé and Jay-Z, even the biggest stars have moments when they have to pinch themselves to check they're not dreaming. We asked luminaries from the worlds of pop, rock, folk, jazz and classical to name their most memorable moments

• Chris Dagley obituary

  2 Aug 2010: Versatile session man and house drummer at Ronnie Scott's club

• This week's new live music

  31 Jul 2010:

  Wu-Tang Clan | Field Day | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang | Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival | Ronnie Scott's Brit Jazz Fest | Tom Bancroft's Band Of Eden

• Mike Westbrook and Kate Westbrook: Fine 'n Yellow

  

  29 Jul 2010: An album devoted to two friends of the artists may not sound appealing, but the Westbrooks' implacable style makes for an unusual and enduring memorial, says John Fordham

• David Rees-Williams: Back from Before

  

  29 Jul 2010: Jazz/classical pianist Rees-Williams hears jazz in classical and liturgical music, augmented with a Hammond and a vibraphone, finds John Fordham

• Loz Speyer/Proyecto Evocación: Roots en Route

  

  29 Jul 2010: Fascinated by Cuban music, trumpeter Speyer draws in local performers for an album playfully combining styles, says John Fordham

• Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project

  

  29 Jul 2010: The ever-remarkable Hancock's globetrotting collaborations continue with this album, including guests Pink, Chaka Khan and the Chieftains, says John Fordham

• Jim Hart/Ralph Alessi

  

  29 Jul 2010: Pizza Express Soho, London
  Vibraphonist Jim Hart and trumpet virtuoso Alessi roped in other talents to further their formidable transatlantic partnership, writes John Fordham

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