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New Orleans is recovering its old spirit

2009-10-28T10:12:09Z

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

Buckingham Palace hits right note with jazz fans

2009-08-03T11:28:00Z

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

Barack Obama: Man with a culture plan

2009-01-28T09:43:03Z

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...

CDs of the week

2008-12-05T10:36:58Z

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.

The great lost American move

2008-06-18T23:00:00Z

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.

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

2008-04-27T00:28:06Z

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

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.

Off the record

2007-11-30T11:20:09Z

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

Vanity Fair photographs to go on display

2007-11-19T16:43:42Z

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

So when does a pub stop being a pub?

2007-09-25T23:00:00Z

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

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.

Driven to new heights by Henderson

2006-09-18T14:38:35Z

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'.

Raw truth in the township

2006-08-24T23:00:00Z

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

An old charmer delivers

2006-08-02T23:00:00Z

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.