Jazz
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Who should win the Mercury prize 2017 – Stormzy, Kate Tempest ... or Dinosaur?It’s a strong field for rappers in this year’s Mercury prize, but could the grunge-pop of the Big Moon or the jazz fusion of Dinosaur cause an upset? Our writers make their cases
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Django Bates: Saluting Sgt Pepper review – jazz maverick's winning Beatles tributeThe unruly composer and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band began tentatively but soon let fly on an exhilarating reimagining of the Fab Four’s album
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Reelin' in the years: the rogue genius of Steely Dan's greatest songsSteely Dan guitarist Walter Becker has died, bringing an end to a songwriting partnership with Donald Fagen that lasted 50 years, and yielded some of America’s most cosmopolitan pop
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Drug stores, jazz and a smoking Statue of Liberty: pop-art provocateur Larry Rivers – in picturesLarry Rivers became an artist in the 1940s, and was soon part of a New York avant-garde scene of dancers, musicians and writers. He’ll be celebrated at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery from 6 September
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Glenn Miller book clears RAF of accidentally killing band leaderResearch by historian Dennis Spragg suggests that the Lancaster bombers often blamed were 90 minutes too early
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John Abercrombie obituaryLeading jazz guitarist whose work always retained lyricism, narrative shape and the distant heartbeat of the groove
Mercury prize 2017: Sampha wins for Process – as it happened