TOP JAZZ MUSIC

• 1:This week's cultural highlights: The Raid and Bath festival jazz weekend

  20 May 2012: Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now

• 2:Loose Tubes: Säd Afrika – review 20 May 2012: 

    This farewell performance from the 1990s captures an anarchic British big band at its chaotic best, says Dave Gelly

• 3:The Man with the Jazz Guitar – review  20 May 2012: 

    Marc Mason's film about jazz guitarist Ken Sykora is an affectionate, affecting tribute, writes Philip French

• 4:Lynne Arriale: Solo – review  17 May 2012:  

  The former classical pianist from Milwaukee has taken a long-postponed plunge into unaccompanied performance, with agreeable results, writes John Fordham Post your comment

• 5:JBBG – Jazz Bigband Graz: Urban Folktales – review

  17 May 2012: The set's eclecticism has a borderline-smooth gloss at times, but Urban Folktales is agreeably accessible, writes John Fordham Post your comment

• 6:trio VD: Maze – review17 May 2012:  

  This album retains trio VD's frantic hit-and-run staccato structures and howling distortion, but the extremes are even scarier, writes John Fordham Post your comment

• 7:Lighthouse Trio – review  17 May 2012: 

    This British trio is an exception – a dynamically democratic jazz organism that has stuck together for a long time, writes John Fordham 

• 8:Frank Parr obituary   17 May 2012: 

   Other lives: Lancashire county cricketer and jazzman who played with George Melly

• 9:Dub Colossus Dub Band – review  14 May 2012:  

  The Britsh-based edition of Dub Colossus throw a great show even without their wonderful Ethiopian members, writes Robin Denselow 

• 10;John Pizzarelli: Double Exposure – review   13 May 2012: 

   The jazz guitarist and singer delights with a sharp and surprising collection of songs, writes Dave Gelly