Music

This international jazz summer school has become a unique utopia for lovers of the genre

I may not be a fan of Oasis, but people’s excitement about their reunion is infectious

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, books and music

Few things in music sound more like the punchline to a joke than a millionaire mouth organist, but Thielemans forged a brilliantly idiosyncratic path

During the singer’s 10-night residency in Munich, she understood exactly what Germans need to hear

How Råpunk – raw punk – brought pure rage to Sweden

If opera needs a way to entrance new, younger audiences, this production of Samson needs to get on the road

With his gramophone recordings, the Italian transcended the closed world of performance to become a global phenomenon

How Berlin made the notorious, magnificent Einstürzende Neubauten

Bands that played Spain in the heady aftermath of Franco’s death have been rewarded with remarkable loyalty

The remarkable legacy of the late singer, who epitomised both French cool and French angst

Iain Softley’s cult 1994 directorial debut chronicles the Beatles’ wild early days in Hamburg’s red-light district

The iconic French singer has died after a long battle against cancer

Ligeti’s rigorous antipathy to ideology was maintained throughout his life and extended way beyond his music

Brexit and streaming are killing off the tradition of British musicians touring Europe in a van. One who did it says that’s a tragedy

Before Segovia, the guitar was not an instrument to be taken seriously. In a matter of minutes, everything changed

The question of whether Israel's Eden Golan should have been allowed to perform plagued this year's competition

Dutch sensation Froukje makes dance music with lyrics about grief, the climate crisis and her own brand of radical optimism

This year’s contest in Malmö is at risk of being overshadowed by a fear of violence

New Order’s Bernard Sumner has nailed the problem with British politics

Whatever and wherever he played, his deep feeling for the music made the instrument seem like an extension of him

Beethoven’s fascination with the Enlightenment eventually led him to adapt Schiller’s poem An die Freude (Ode to Joy) into his Ninth Symphony

ECM has been producing stylish jazz since 1969. But with its founder now 80, where do its solemn, spacious sounds go next?

The actor – reliably excellent as the singer’s father, Mitch, in Back to Black – on addiction, social media rage and antisemitism

In 1974, the group won Eurovision.. and changed Sweden

Finesse, sensuality and richness are what Debussy brought to a staid musical world unprepared for such an emphatic upending of form and technique

Over seven weeks in Almería Lennon worked tirelessly on arguably his greatest, and most personal, Beatles composition, Strawberry Fields Forever

As good a musician as Keith Richards, the German was never entirely comfortable in the limelight

After 40 years on hiatus, south London’s Cymande are stars of a superb biopic and out on a European tour

A century old, Rhapsody in Blue blends rhythms from the Black jazz age and from the Europe that George Gershwin left behind