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"I don't want to be a clown any more. I don't want to be a rock'n'roll star": The radical rebirth of Jimi Hendrix and his Band Of Gypsys

In January 1970, Jimi Hendrix pulled the plug on stardom to chase a funkier, freer direction with his Band Of Gypsys. This is their story

Louder

At home with India Mahdavi

India Mahdavi invites us to her Paris and Arles homes, and tells us about her approach to interiors, the objects that surround her and what inspires her

Wallpaper

32 Best Red Carpet Moments of the 1960s

Celebrity drama was just as intense!

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Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song review – quietly joyous jazz grooves

The California-raised trumpet virtuoso provides a balming trio album to counter our information overload

The Guardian - UK

“I introduced Sting to Miles Davis, and that blew Sting’s mind!” Darryl Jones on providing the punch for Sting, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones

After stints with Miles Davis, Madonna, and Sting, Darryl Jones found a home on The Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge

Guitar World

‘Fela Kuti was always in his pants’: legendary music photographer Val Wilmer’s greatest shoots

She ate fried chicken with BB King, gave Jimi Hendrix a lift home from a gig and accidentally worked for MI6. The pioneer recalls her favourite subjects – and the ones like Miles Davis she’d rather forget

The Guardian - UK

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on his giant 50-song album: ‘I wanted to approach it like an experiment’

The composer and arranger has worked with everyone from Ray Charles to Rihanna. Now he’s stepping into the spotlight with a mammoth three and a half hour debut LP … and that’s just volume one

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“People have said, ‘Oh, man, you gotta play the Gibson, that’s the real deal.’ But there’s something about the Ibanez… I prefer the evenness of it”: John Scofield on working with Miles Davis, covering Bob Dylan and the agony of writing music

The jazz improv virtuoso returns with Uncle John's Band, an album that finds him covering Bob Dylan, Neil Young and, of course, the Grateful Dead

Guitar World

Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber review – bum notes

The author of Under the Skin’s eccentric take on music fails to reverberate

The Guardian - UK

Ron Carter, jazz’s most prolific bassist: ‘Our band was a laboratory – and Miles Davis was head chemist’

He overcame prejudice to play on more than 2,000 albums, and is still going strong at 86. Carter recalls laughter with Aretha Franklin, composing with Roberta Flack, and what Miles taught him in their classic quintet

The Guardian - UK

Jazz star Yussef Dayes: ‘Other people had David Beckham as their hero – I had the drummer Billy Cobham’

The groundbreaking south London drummer is now on the brink of solo stardom. He reveals the highs and lows of his journey and why his new album is more than just a jazz record

The Guardian - UK

EFG London Jazz Festival 2023: the top 12 shows to book

From jazz icons to exciting new talent and virtuousos to boundary breakers, this London event has it all

Evening Standard

Claudette Johnson: Presence review – subtle swipes at the exploitative modern masters

The artist brilliantly questions depictions of non-white figures by such revered painters as Gauguin and Picasso – but there’s a quiet power to her new work that leaves theory behind

The Guardian - UK

John Marshall obituary

Supremely gifted drummer who was a long-serving member of the British rock band Soft Machine

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Herb Alpert on 80 years in music: ‘Mozart, Thelonious Monk ... all of us have the same 12 notes’

The trumpeter and co-founder of A&M Records answers your questions on writing a Bond theme, selling 72m albums and signing Janet Jackson, Karen Carpenter and the ‘appalling’ Sex Pistols

The Guardian - UK

From Ahsoka to Ragnarok: the seven best shows to stream this week

Darth Vader’s old student gets her own Jedi-tastic TV spectacular, and the off-kilter Norwegian fantasy drama begins its final run

The Guardian - UK

Kool & the Gang’s Robert Bell: ‘When the astronauts went into space, they played Celebration’

Their hits have filled dancefloors for over 40 years. As Kool and the Gang embark on another round of summer gigs, founder Robert ‘Kool’ Bell reveals the secrets of their success

Louder

The genius of Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden

It was impossible to play live and it sold poorly when released, but Talk Talk's fourth studio album, 1988's Spirit Of Eden is rightly hailed as a masterpiece

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Carlos Santana talks about last year's collapse on stage: 'I just ran out of batteries'

DETROIT — The last time Carlos Santana played Pine Knob Music Theatre, things didn't go exactly as planned.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Girl From Ipanema’s secret life in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Astrud Gilberto, the singer synonymous with “The Girl From Ipanema,” grew up in Brazil and traveled the world as an ambassador of the gently intoxicating bossa sound created by her first husband, João Gilberto.

Guitar World

Marcus Miller's The Sun Don't Lie: the moment Miller proved he was more than just a slap monster

Glass-like fretless tone. Thumb-thumping passages. Tributes to Jaco: 1993's The Sun Don't Lie served notice that Marcus MIller was more than a sideman

The Guardian - UK

The joy of the slow burn record: ‘Not only did I warm to his drawls, I became obsessed’

Sometimes, 20 years after dismissing an album, it’s suddenly exactly what you need. Our writers pick out the music that crept up on them

MusicRadar

Mick Hucknall on the 10 songs that changed his life: “The Beatles changed the way music sounded, but the Stones were the world’s greatest rock band”

“I know my musical history,” says The Simply Red frontman, as he discusses new album, Time, and his lost afternoon with Keith Richards

Guitar World

Marcus Miller: “The phone rings in my hotel room and it was Jaco Pastorius”

Marcus Miller on the whole tone lick he learnt from Jaco Pastorius and why replacing him in Weather Report was “a beat down waiting to happen!”

Louder

Billy Cobham: “It was testing the waters of rock and jazz!"

Jazz fusion drummer extraordinaire Billy Cobham recalls his time with Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra and beyond...

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