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London's 25 hottest tickets

20.09.11
From Rihanna's 10-night run at the O2 to Michael Sheen's Hamlet and the London Jazz Festival, there's plenty to look forward to between now and Christmas ... more

Murray fires a verbal volley as players hit out

09.09.11
British No1 calls for change after scheduling row at US Open reaches boiling point... more

Sound check: The sultry soundtrack of L.A Noire

20.05.11
The groundbreaking graphics of L.A. Noire, launched today, are matched by a sultry, seductive soundtrack that is bound to score as highly as the computer game... more

Hackney’s big hitters in Shadowball

30.06.10
It says something about London’s artistic confidence that Shadowall, the first jazz opera about US baseball, should have been conceived here in London.... more

Jamie Cullum knows how to deliver a good night

17.05.10
Jamie Cullum, part national treasure, part the national jazz hobbit, wound the clock back at The Palladium.... more

Lime Wood: the new superhotel in the New Forest

18.12.09
Lime Wood is a new superhotel in the New Forest with a triumvirate of British talent behind it. Hermione Eyre gets a warm reception from David Collins, Robin Hutson and Alex Aitken... more

New Orleans is recovering its old spirit

28.10.09
Despite the ravages of Hurricane Katrina four years ago Lindsay Johns finds that New Orleans is well on the path to recovery... more

Buckingham Palace hits right note with jazz fans

03.08.09
Buckingham Palace made a surprise appearance today on a shortlist of the country's most important jazz venues... more

Barack Obama: Man with a culture plan

28.01.09
Now that Barack Obama has moved into the White House America’s arts world can look forward to playing a key role in his revolution — it’s a strategy we could learn from...... more

CDs of the week

05.12.08
Akon's third album drops most of the hip-hop, you can almost smell the dope in Neil Young's 1968 concert and David Byrne is unfussy. ... more

The great lost American move

19.06.08
As a director representing black America, Charles Burnett is as important as Spike Lee, argues Derek Malcom as he reviews Burnett's seminal piece of cinema.... more

'I'm sorry. I haven't a clue how I'll get over Humph's death' Friends mourn jazz genius Lyttelton

27.04.08
Sinclair McKay remembers Humphrey Lyttelton - jazz genius, radio legend and master of the breathtaking double entendre who died on Friday at the age of 86 ... more

Ray stays on the sunny side

19.12.07
Bouncy Anglo-Italian tenorist Ray Gelato combines the soul of an artist with a crowdpleaser's hunger for applause.... more

Off the record

30.11.07
David Smyth looks at Morrissey's racism row with the magazine NME and how it shows that politics and pop are an awkward mix.... more

Vanity Fair photographs to go on display

19.11.07
Famous images from the pages of Vanity Fair magazine are to go on display at the National Portrait Gallery.... more

So when does a pub stop being a pub?

26.09.07
The quality of food at The Only Running Footman is at least the equal of the posh English restaurants.... more

Davis is Miles ahead in jazz poll

10.04.07
The Miles Davis classic So What has been voted the best ever jazz record.... more

Driven to new heights by Henderson

18.09.06
As a trained doctor who combined medical and jazz careers, Eddie Henderson seems an ideal match for Ambulance, Arnie Somogyi's self-styled 'specialists in musical accident and insurgency'.... more

Raw truth in the township

25.08.06
Township Stories gives a painfully honest view of unremittingly violent life in post-apartheid South Africa.... more

An old charmer delivers

03.08.06
Jazz review: No synths, samples or electronica were heard in this set from US trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Instead, says Jack Massarik, the audience got pure acoustic jazz, but of typically wide range.... more


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