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‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music?

Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind

The Guardian - UK

Harold Offeh: Mmm Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet review – desire, despondency and disco divas

Offeh’s show blares and jostles with life as he mimics Mammy, listens to self-help advice and gets naked for Grace Jones’s anatomically impossible Island Life pose

The Guardian - UK

“It’s so hard when you come in to bands like Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers where the fans actually care who the bass player is”: How Oteil Burbridge set about replacing Phil Lesh to become Dead & Company’s new singing bass hero

Burbridge played with The Allman Brothers and Tedeschi Trucks Band before joining Dead & Company alongside guitarist John Mayer

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Jack DeJohnette obituary

Thrilling American jazz drummer, pianist and composer who played with some of the genre’s greatest stars

The Guardian - UK

Jack DeJohnette, acclaimed jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis, dies at 83

Acclaimed jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has died at 83

The Independent UK

Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83

Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader

The Guardian - UK

Samara Joy reflects on her Grammy wins and the creative journey behind 'Portrait'

Samara Joy’s voice transports listeners to the early jazz clubs, evoking legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan

The Independent UK

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Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound

Far more than a mute foil to Marc Almond, Ball brought his love of northern soul and strange electronics to bear on some of Britain’s most uncompromising pop

The Guardian - UK

Y2K fashion and vinyl grooves: meet Abidjan’s young guardians of nostalgia

Two Ivorian archivists are documenting bygone eras in music and pop culture for younger African generations

The Guardian - UK

Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey review – mission to Planet Orgasm

Mojisola Adebayo’s play deftly navigates light and heavy subject matter as its hero embarks on a quest to feel the earth move

The Guardian - UK

Desire: The Carl Craig Story review – goatee-stroking homage to a techno legend

There’s a suitable air of scholarly sobriety to this music documentary about the influential Detroit DJ, but he still remains an enigma

The Guardian - UK

“I’ve been to guitar shops and played fancy guitars and cheaper ones. I just don’t understand why people pay so much money”: Tashi Dorji explains why he sees little value in expensive instruments – but views improv guitar as anarchy

Tashi Dorji is a punk-rocker with a freewheeling improv jazz sensibility and he is totally okay with his music being impermanent, so long as it sounds alive in the moment

Guitar World

Harnessing chaos and charm, Pere Ubu’s David Thomas rewrote rock’n’roll

The bandleader, who has died aged 71, created a vast body of work that influenced everyone from Ramones to REM, thanks to his absurdist energy

The Guardian - UK

UK jazz star Emma-Jean Thackray: ‘I had the word weirdo thrust upon me. So I’m reclaiming it’

Autistic and with ADHD, the chart-topping musician always felt out of step – and then she had to face terrible grief. She explains how her new album helped her survive

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Idris Ackamoor Ankhestra, Rhodessa Jones, Danny Glover: Artistic Being review – powerful live set from the Afrofuturist and friends

This San Francisco session released for Record Store Day sets spoken word to Ackamoor’s uncompromising but joyous spiritual jazz

The Independent UK

Carlos Santana: ‘Hostile forces tried to destroy Michael Jackson’

INTERVIEW: Ahead of his new album ‘Sentient’, featuring collaborations with some of the great musical icons from history, the legendary guitarist talks to Kevin E G Perry about working with the King of Pop, his memories of Woodstock and Altamont, the genius of Miles Davis and why death is just…

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“My totalitarian rule might not be cool, but at least we’ve made interesting records. At least we polarise people”: It took The Mars Volta three years and several arguments to make Noctourniquet

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez challenged himself to stop aiming for perfection, and challenged old friend Cedric Bixler-Zavala to write direct lyrics. It wasn’t easy for either of them

The Guardian - AU

Womadelaide 2025: Róisín Murphy, Khruangbin and others lead a blissful, sweltering weekend

Despite the heat, this year’s festival was full of magical moments and big sounds, with musicians making fascinating genre connections

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‘Together in creativity for peace!’ Sain, the indie label pushing Welsh music forward for 56 years

It’s gone from a cowshed to a cultural institution. As its 3,000-album archive gets digitised, different generations explain how Sain deepened Welsh identity

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"The next generation of Moog products will push boundaries while remaining deeply rooted in the craftsmanship and creativity that defines the brand": Moog at 60, from the ladder filter to the Labyrinth

As the iconic synth-maker enters a new era under inMusic, we speak to several key figures at the company to ask if it can stay true to its roots while embracing the future

Louder

“The Doctor Who theme was just a fraction of what she could do… She felt sound very deeply – things that haunted her came out”: Actress Caroline Catz on hearing Delia Derbyshire’s unreleased archive

Doc Martin and DCI Banks star’s record collection also features krautrock, space rock, acid folk, Canterbury and metal music

The Guardian - UK

Sun Ra Arkestra: Lights on a Satellite review – fitting tribute to a century of jazz

As saxophonist and band leader Marshall Allen turns 100, his evergreen outfit effortlessly draw on their rich history, as classics meet the cosmic

Louder

"I knew the MC5 was telling the truth; There were dangerous truths that needed to be revealed": The last stand of rock's great revolutionaries

In 1968 the MC5’s Kick Out The Jams album was a grenade thrown into the music scene. Wayne Kramer acted as guardian of the band’s legacy until he died earlier this year, after making one final album

The Guardian - UK

Lars Danielsson/ Verneri Pohjola/ John Parricelli: Trio review – wine chateau sessions mingle mature sensibilities

Bassist Danielsson, guitarist Parricelli and trumpeter Pohjola combine folksy melodies, Latin grooves and free-roaming improv on this lustrous album

Louder

"If you're going to do anything, do it full measure, don't equivocate, be all the way in": How the MC5's Kick Out The Jams became a rallying call for a generation

The title track of the MC5's debut live album was the incendiary call to arms that ignited punk’s vital spark in 60s Detroit

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