Bob Dylan: ‘It sickened me to see George Floyd tortured to death like that’
In a rare interview, the Nobel Prize winner discusses life and death, his inspiration and new album
Kind of Blue: A glory of 20th century music, reorchestrated in Ireland
Miles Davis gets new arrangements from Guy Barker and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
‘I remember Gay Byrne one night referring to me simply as ‘bass’ ’
Jazz composer Ronan Guilfoyle reflects on his father, his influences and session work
Walter Becker: Steely Dan guitarist, songwriter and avocado farmer
Obituary: Becker made suavely subversive pop hits out of slippery jazz harmonies
Music heaven in megapolis on shores of Lake Michigan
From jazz to electric blues to house and indy rock, Windy City is a real capital of sounds
Christine Hamill’s The Best Medicine: Strong backing from TV comic
Harry Hill likes mother’s funny novel on unfunny subject of cancer which features him
Weekend in... Boston
This little big town has emerged from its introverted shell to offer a livelier mix of cultural offerings, plus an exploding food scene
Flying Lotus: death becomes him
When Steven Ellison was growing up jazz showed him the future of music. Now Flying Lotus is returning the favour – in a very dark way
12 Points festival is ‘a long way from three chords and the truth’
Jazz has become a ‘super-broad church’ and is no longer the preserve of middle-aged men, says Kenneth Killeen, the director of the four-day Dublin festival
Whiplash review: JK Simmons’s jazz drumming drill sergeant deserves acclaim
Damien Chazelle’s bravura debut treats the drumkit as a theatre of war
Summer books that sizzle – whether it’s sunny or not
It’s hard to beat the pleasure of settling down on a sun lounger or sofa with a good book. Here are 25 of the season’s best to choose from
The plot thickens: no spoilers
Tightly wound or free-flowing? Well charted or twists and turns? Jojo Moyes, Sam Lipsyte, John Connolly, Lia Mills and Tana French on plotting your book
St Vincent’s close encounters
Annie Clark on meeting rattlesnakes, picking up cow dung, football, David Byrne, the NSA, and, yes, the new album too
Gay Byrne’s punk radio: 'I’d say we’re down to about 300 doddery old fools'
The Sunday show, a mixture of jazz and giving out, is becoming cult listening, mainly for the darkness of Byrne’s presentation. His subject matter takes in everything from the pope’s fitness and spitting to Pat Kenny’s move
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