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Jamie Cullum: I'd do anything for Jamie Oliver

2009-11-13T09:15:58Z

Video: Too many cooks failed to spoil a charity feast put on by Jamie Oliver's young recruits from the Fifteen Foundation.

CDs of the week: Robbie Williams has a cracking comeback album

2009-11-06T13:32:29Z

When Robbie Williams's pleasing, pleading voice is coupled with a background orchestra on Superblind he has something he's never previously come close to: gravitas.

Soundcheck: Musicians invading new genres

2009-10-23T08:02:30Z

Pop can no longer contain Sufjan Stevens, whose latest album, The BQE, is a multi-format extravaganza. And now there is a fresh ambition among musicians

CDs of the week

2009-06-05T11:10:42Z

Little Boots arrives fresh out of Blackpool, Kasabian and The Black Eyed Peas return and Diana Krall sounds more fulfilled.

Dangerous games in a billionaires' playground

2008-10-23T08:40:11Z

Earlier this year I rubbed St Tropez'd shoulders in Moscow with Polina Deripaska, the beautiful young wife of Oleg, the Russian billionaire whose yacht soir�es have got first Peter Mandelson and now George Osborne into such trouble

Fact and fiction in Radioplay

2008-10-09T23:00:00Z

It takes an Irish actor banished to remotest Cornwall in childhood to cook up a monologue as witty and fanciful as Radioplay.

Bacharach, Goldfrapp and a Bee Gee headline the Electric Proms

2008-09-17T08:08:48Z

Burt Bacharach, Goldfrapp and Keane will top the bill at next month's Electric Proms

Bacharach and Goldfrapp to play Electric Proms

2008-09-17T12:36:18Z

Burt Bacharach, Goldfrapp, Keane and Robin Gibb will top the bill at next month's BBC Electric Proms.

Is she really going out with HIM? Meet the oddest celebrity couples around

2008-09-05T19:29:25Z

As Michael Jackson and Pamela Anderson are reported to have stepped out on secret dates, we reveal the weirdest celebrity pairings ever.

Gwilym Simcock is dazzling poet of the keyboard

2008-08-10T23:00:00Z

In a weekend packed with premieres, Simcock's Progressions wins the prize for enlightened commissioning, says Fiona Maddocks.

Jamie Cullum and his giant peach Sophie Dahl hunt for a love nest

2008-07-31T11:27:39Z

Sophie Dahl and her boyfriend Jamie Cullum are buying a house together.

Public votes Lyttelton BBC jazz artist of the year

2008-07-22T07:47:23Z

Musician and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton was named artist of the year at this year's BBC Jazz Awards

CDs of the week

2008-05-16T11:14:47Z

Green Day are back under pseudonym Foxboro Hot Tubs; making retro, carefree garage rock, The Tom Richards Orchestra is a gentle giant and The Ting Tings release their debut.

Little and large celebrity couples turn out for �1,000-a-head banquet

2008-03-14T14:43:39Z

Singers Mick Jagger and Jamie Cullum were left looking positively pint-sized last night as they arrived with their statuesque girlfriends at a charity banquet in London

�1,000 'beggars banquet' stars Mick Jagger

2008-03-14T09:45:39Z

It was the charity banquet with a difference, a £1,000-ahead five-course meal made of ingredients all grown, plucked or fished from in and around London

Ray stays on the sunny side

2007-12-19T00:00:00Z

Bouncy Anglo-Italian tenorist Ray Gelato combines the soul of an artist with a crowdpleaser's hunger for applause.

Viennese master's glorious send-off

2007-11-26T00:00:00Z

Martin France drummed with more venom than usual and Django Bates played magnificently in an all-star tribute to Joe Zawinul.

Quartet could be blessed

2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

They release their debut album early next year, and jazz-rock quartet The Blessing could be ones to watch, says Jack Massarik.

Monk, funk and even a banjo

2007-10-31T12:07:13Z

It takes place at 41 venues over 10 nights and ranges from world music to the complete works of Thelonious Monk - Jack Massarik previews the London Jazz Festival.

Cullum at the cutting edge

2007-10-25T23:00:00Z

Jamie Cullum showed at the Electric Proms he has always been edgier than his cheeky chappy persona and grisly covers suggested.

CDs of the week

2007-10-04T23:00:00Z

The truly indestructible Sugababes return for their fifth album and London songsmith Jack Pe�ate aims to vindicate all that gushing praise.

Winehouse a hit in the jazz world

2007-05-08T07:53:10Z

She may have lost to Arctic Monkeys at the Brit Awards but Amy Winehouse has at last won a trophy for her acclaimed album Back To Black.

Jazz great finally releases album

2007-04-24T23:00:00Z

Decades into an illustrious career, Chris Laurence has finally released his maiden album. Jack Massarik was at St Cyprian's Church to hear the jazz star play his top-class music.

Davis is Miles ahead in jazz poll

2007-04-10T07:52:11Z

The Miles Davis classic So What has been voted the best ever jazz record.

Critics choice: Top five gigs

2007-01-19T08:47:46Z

With star-packed events at Ronnie Scott's and the Roundhouse featuring Jamie Cullum, Paul Weller and Bill Wyman, to Swedish electropop at the Mean Fiddler, there is something for everyone.

The new ambassador of jazz

2006-11-07T11:13:26Z

Gwilym Simcock is one of the young stars of this year's London Jazz Festival - he says he's on a mission to bring the music to his generation.

Music downloads

2006-09-29T13:27:42Z

Jamie Cullum's White Island classics, new material from Damien Rice and the launch of Sony's new music service. Read David Smyth's internet music picks here.

Schools of rock

2006-09-14T11:38:02Z

From Coldplay and Pulp to The Who and Pink Floyd, much of modern music flourished in the capital's seats of higher learning. A new poll has revealed where they studied.

Schoolboy star's hard lesson

2006-08-30T23:00:00Z

Schoolboy crooner Joe Gibbons might look green, but his convincing vocals bely his tender years. The lad turned 15 only last month and he's already making good progress.

Eden offers a glimpse of paradise

2006-08-23T23:00:00Z

Can nice girls rise to the top? Consider RAF bandsman's daughter Joanna Eden: she plays good piano, writes sharp-witted, well-crafted songs and sings them sweetly.