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EFG London Jazz Festival 2025: an insider's guide to all the hottest shows

No need to improvise your plans when our jazz critic Jane Cornwell has hand picked the 12 hottest tickets to book

Evening Standard

Rock acts Fontaines DC, Sam Fender and Wolf Alice shortlisted for the 2025 Mercury Prize

An Irish act could win for the first time in Mercury Prize history, with both Fontaines DC and pop singer CMAT shortlisted, while North Shields singer-songwriter Fender will be hoping for a homecoming triumph as the ceremony takes place in Newcastle

The Independent UK

Floating Points review – an unclassifiable triumph

On the first of a three-night London residency, British dance producer Sam Shepherd conjures up a transcendent set that’s equal parts body-jacking rave and harp-laced, retina-melting art show

The Guardian - UK

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Floating Points and Shabaka Hutchings at The Hollywood Bowl review: A beautiful tribute to Pharoah Sanders

A near perfect body of music paired with a beautiful tribute as Floating Points, Shabaka Hutchings, Four Tet and more bring the album ‘Promises’ to life to honour the late Pharoah Sanders

The Independent UK

Sissoko/Segal/Parisien/Peirani: Les Égarés review – genre-hoppers stray towards surprise

Émile Parisien’s soprano sax is the standout on this diverse and inventive set, which blends kora with Anatolian shindigs, klezmer with agile accordion

The Guardian - UK

‘New York was a big, bad city’: the hazy, radical photography of Ming Smith

The artist reflects on her storied career amid the launch of a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art

The Guardian - US

Remembering the international celebrities who died in 2022

The world lost trailblazers, pioneers and giants this year from many walks of life. Take a look back at the international stars who died this year.

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Pharoah Sanders remembered by Kamasi Washington

The musician salutes the long career of the fellow saxophonist, the master of spiritual, ‘cosmic’ jazz who was ‘like a third grandfather’ to him

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Jessica Hynes’s cultural highlights

The actor and director on what the Romans have done for her, a beguiling staging of a Japanese animation and a peerless podcast

The Guardian - UK

A nurse, a rogue, a Pharoah and a space mission – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Pharoah Sanders obituary

US saxophonist who started his career with Sun Ra and John Coltrane and went on to find a more spiritual voice

The Guardian - UK

House of the rising Son

Son House is regarded as one of the greats of early blues, along with early recording stars like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. He made 78rpm records in the 1930s but a spell in penitentiary halted his career and by the 1940s he had abandoned recording. It wasn't until 1964…

Bangkok Post

A church with open doors: the ecstatic power of Pharoah Sanders

The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything

The Guardian - UK

Pharoah Sanders, legendary jazz musician, dies at 81

LOS ANGELES — Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define the so-called spiritual jazz movement, has died. He was 81.

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Pharoah Sanders, groundbreaking jazz saxophonist, dies at 81

The jazz great died in Los Angeles early Saturday, his record label announced.

The Independent UK

Pharoah Sanders, influential jazz saxophonist, dies at 81

Pharoah Sanders, a tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world and known for the spirituality of his work, has died, his record label announced

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Pharoah Sanders, giant of spirit-driven jazz, dies at 81

Sanders, revered as one of the avant-garde's greatest tenor saxophonists, was a member of John Coltrane's final quartet. His expressive playing laid a path for generations of musicians.

The Guardian - UK

Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders dead at 81

Revered spiritual jazz saxophonist was known for his unique playing style and collaborations with John Coltrane

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