Culture: Jazz

Chick Corea/Béla Fleck

Sholto Byrnes applauds a jazz performance that is full of fireworks

The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

Perspectives: M Nahadr

M Nahadr, singer, on jazz, R’n’B and being an albino

The left hand’s final frontier

Far-out jazz chat is all well and good, Keith, but tell us about the divorce

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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing

There’s nothing as splendidly free-form as a jazzman’s reminiscences

Can you dig it?

An ambitious survey of jazz in the 20th century is one dazzling image after another. But uprooted from all context, this disparate collection of jazz gems is a little lost in the wilderness

Swinging Addis

Ethiopian pop was killed off by dictatorship, but left a rich and eccentric legacy.

New jazz generation

A new wave of young musicians is pushing the boundaries of the genre

Highly strung

Music - Natalie Brierley on the plucking excellence of ukuleles

Class conscious - Andrew Martin praises the pioneers of revivalist jazz

Jazz revivalism - a quasi-Nordic look involving beards and Arran jumpers