Dynasty star was the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series

Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre

One of the most exhilarating live acts on the Irish scene will also take to the stage

The older we get, the more locked inside ourselves we become

Dirty Jazz Club returns to Dublin while the Guilfoyle/Nielsen Trio plays in Derry bar

The return of Rodrigo Almonte to his sometime home is also among the highlights

Author and journalist has been honing his sportswriting craft for 35 years

Miles Davis gets new arrangements from Guy Barker and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Van the very prolific man releases his 40th album, and his fourth in two years

40,000 jazz fans to attend as New Orleans-style funeral procession hits town

How to do a sleepover in style and who will fix up your furniture

Musician and composer Seán Mac Erlaine on his jazz awakening

Maureen Dowd: William Friedkin revisits old haunts for his new film about exorcism

For the acclaimed jazz innovator Pat Metheny, guitars were tools for creating music. Then one he first saw as a child came up for sale, and he had to have it

In 1987 he was hailed as a rival to Michael Jackson, then his star crashed and burned

The great saxophonist died 50 years ago this week. Here are 10 of his finest moments

Archive: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfall

Laura Jurd is one of jazz's fastest rising stars but her band Dinosaur has a sound that's pure early 1970s electric funk

From the apocalyptic vision of A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall to the complex meditations of Ain’t Talkin’, Dylan delivers poetry in emotion

Superstar died with no known will; Monday’s hearing could be the start of a years-long dispute over his fortune

The US singer was a driven perfectionist whose creative output was staggering

As a teenager, Liebman saw Coltrane play and was hooked. More than 50 years on, the saxophonist and jazz evangelist can’t believe that he rose to fill the shoes of his idol

Film of Taste at Isle of Wight a year later to screen at Cork Film Festival next week

The New Jersey boy, who has been hailed as the future of drumming, says jazz and electronic music equally informed his style

It’s been a busy summer for Fionn Davenport, as he criss-crossed the United States. Here are three of his favourite cities to visit

News, views and holiday offers

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

600 artists are boycotting Israel; Sean Scully is showing in China - is art ever apolitical?

A confident debut album from musicians at the vanguard of Irish jazz

Want to see James Brown, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and other megastars in concert for free? Head to YouTube for a trove of live music films

Hard bop notable recorded exclusively for Blue Note Records over three decades

Saxophonist Wayne Shorter has been at the heart of jazz for six decades. His tunes are like Beckett plays in melody and harmony, and his answers aren’t exactly straightforward either

The German’s music is fuelled by a love of traditional studio craft, from the Beatles to Miles Davis, and his latest work attempts to answer the question: what is left when all studio tricks are gone?

Watts has played with Marvin Gaye and the Jackson Five, as well as being one of the most respected jazz saxophonists of his generation

Over dinner in downtown Manhattan, the guitarist talks about what he learned growing up in the heady days of New York’s jazz scene