Early 1900s: Buddy Bolden ‘invents’ jazz.
15 April 1956: Finding out about jazz - Kingsley Amis introduces a new monthly feature for the Observer.
17 February 1958: The art of Dave Brubeck - Brubeck is perhaps the most famous modern jazz pianist in the world, and one who is taken seriously by serious music critics.
29 November 1959: How to take pizzazz out of jazz - Benny Green finds little to enjoy at a concert by the oh so elegant and restrained Modern Jazz Quartet.
21 February 1960: In Modes of Blue - Benny Green reviews Kind of Blue by Miles Davis.
31 July 1960: Riot at the Beaulieu jazz festival - The bucolic peace of Hampshire is shattered when fighting mars a set from Acker Bilk’s band.
9 August 1965: John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme reviewed - ‘an exercise in musical monotony.’
16 April 1966: Ornette Coleman at Ronnie Scott’s - Observer jazz critic Benny Green’s review includes the memorable line ‘Like a stopped clock, Coleman is right at least twice a day.’
17 June 1972: Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli collaborate - Interview with the great violinist Menuhin about an unlikely alliance between classical and jazz.
12 February 1975: Herbie Hancock, jazz man and film score writer - The jazz maestro talks about Miles Davis, the evolution of funk and writing the score for Death Wish.
15 March 1986: Courtney Pine is blowing up a saxophone gale - The young musician is one of the first black men this side of the Atlantic to make his mark on the jazz scene.
14 November 2014: Blue Note - 75 years of the coolest visuals in jazz.
12 April 2017: Miles Davis – 10 of the best.
