Terry Cox obituary
Drummer with Pentangle, the folk-rock group who found fame in the 1960s with their fusion of jazz, blues and traditional songs
Miroslav Vitous: Mountain Call review – double bass duets balance muscularity with mellowness
Jack DeJohnette and Michel Portal – both of whom died recently – are phenomenal foils for the Weather Report alumnus’s classical-influenced jazz
Flea: Honora review – Chili Pepper turns piper, taking up trumpet for a soulful jazz odyssey
Imaginative interpretations of Funkadelic and Frank Ocean sit alongside starry collaborations and gorgeous instrumentals on the bassist’s brassy side project
Raye: This Music May Contain Hope review – a wildly ambitious epic of unbridled self-expression
Almost overstuffed with musical ideas, the singer’s second studio album can be self-indulgent and messy, but it’s a heartfelt and exuberant grand statement from an artist determined to go her own way
Seven of the best music festivals to visit by train from the UK
From jazz in Rotterdam and hip-hop in Paris to brass bands on the beach in Blackpool, the Guardian’s music editor chooses the best European festivals that can be reached by rail
Tomeka Reid: Dance! Skip! Hop! review – an early contender for jazz album of the year
The cellist reunites with guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tomas Fujiwara for five stunning tracks that are boundary-pushing yet populist
Willie Colón was an explosive energy source who took salsa into the stratosphere
With his gangster image, Colón ruffled the feathers of the musical establishment, but thrilled millions of fans as he displayed the raw rhythmic possibility of salsa
Ken Peplowski obituary
Jazz musician whose virtuosic abilities with the clarinet and tenor saxophone straddled traditional and modern jazz
‘I’m trying to expand what it means to be a skier’: Mallory Duncan on jazz, freedom and the mountains
The Californian once had ambitions of winning gold at the Winter Olympics. But now he is more interested in what skiing can do for the soul
Everybody Digs Bill Evans review – absorbing delve into the tumultuous world of the great jazz man
Grant Gee’s film thoroughly inhabits the creative and personal torment experienced by the American pianist – with a terrific supporting Bill Pullman turn
‘Choosing happy is a hell of a process’: Thundercat on funk, lost friends and being fired by Snoop Dogg (possibly)
The genre-hopping bass virtuoso has backed Ariana Grande and Herbie Hancock, appeared in Star Wars and become a dedicated boxer. Ahead of his fifth album, Stephen Bruner explains his polymath mindset
The Testament of Ann Lee with Daniel Blumberg and Amanda Seyfried review – yelps, bells and bruised beauty
Live on stage the Oscar-winning composer’s score is disorientating, ecstatic and strange. Its star, Amanda Seyfried’s pure voice is the anchor in a brief but absorbing set
Ralph Towner obituary
Virtuoso musician and composer who was at the forefront of 1970s jazz fusion, notably with the band Oregon
Julie Campiche: Unspoken review – a harpist’s tender, quietly radical hymn to women who endure
The composer’s first unaccompanied album turns extended harp technique into music of intimacy, restraint and conviction – inspired by the women who shaped her world
‘He used the trumpet as a songbird’: 100 years of Miles Davis, by jazz greats Sonny Rollins, Yazz Ahmed and more
Ahead of the centenary of Davis’s birth, musicians including Terence Blanchard and John Scofield analyse his brilliance: from his soft phrasing and spiritual feel to his raspy cussing and leather outfits