John Surman

Before American and European motion pictures took over Brazilian movie screens in 1911, domestic cinema was enjoying a bela época . Read More

Dec. 12 at Al's Bar, Sixth St. and Limestone. $5. (859) 252-9104. www.myspace.com/alsbarlexington. Read More

Join us this Friday, December 4th, for an in-store Barnes & Noble interview with legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette. Read More

Or do I have to admit defeat and accept that it is an objective fact that an album by Lily Allen is better, or, in the immortal words of Cheryl Cole, more cool, contemporary and relevant, than all of the above ? Read More

You run your own label, which itself deserves a Tenth for being record label of the century so far in its encouragement of music that does not as such conform to the obvious and which in a larger sense represents your interest in music that sounds like the last thing it wants to sound like is something that can easily be described by an established and limiting genre name. Read More

What if there was an award given out for being the British post-jazz musician of the year, or the decade, or come to think of it the century, seeing as how whatever we think is the best thing of the past few years, since 2000, is of course the best thing of the century, although in the case of Amy Winehouse I would suggest you check back in a few years, much the same way you should check back about the position of Oasis in the greater scheme of things, and the idea is that this jazz musician is not necessarily a jazz musician who plays the sax, trumpet or drums, but a jazz musician who has taken the fluid, liberating, genre cracking spirit of, say, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Derek Bailey, John Surman, Dave Holland, Evan Parker and Ovary Lodge, and transfers that spirit so that it fits into a 21st century world that is post the pop of Aphex Twin, Lemon Jelly, Prodigy, Tortoise, 808 State, Orbital, Leftfield and the Chemical Brothers, post the experimentation of Fennesz, Broadcast, Burial, Panda Bear, Notwist, Madvillain, post the jazz of Matthew Shipp, Jon Hassell, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, then this award, for being the British post-jazz musician of the decade, who operates with an awareness of electronica, hip hop, serialism, psych folk, minimalism and Sonic Youth, so a jazz musician who functions as an improvisor and an experimenter and a pleasure seeker and a theorist who also functions as a disc jockey and curator and post modern technician, then the award goes to... Read More

FRASER FIFIELD'S music may have travelled a long way, both stylistically and geographically, from the Highland pipe tunes he learned in his Aberdeenshire boyhood to embrace jazz and classical elements, but traditional music, he insists, remains the touchstone of his creativity. ncert which are being held at the DG One leisure complex in Dumfries this coming weekend. Read More

At first glance, Carla Bley's current band, the Lost Chords, look like just another jazz quartet. Read More