Veteran Brazilian artist Gilberto Gil – onstage at the The Sage Gateshead last night in what saw, for the first time, a performance by Gilberto and his son. The pair, who performed as part of KCRW’s World Festival series, expressed their mutual admiration for one another and gave the massive Bowl audience two very distinct but connected sets.

As a founding member of the British improvising collective AMM (with composer/improviser Cornelius Cardew, Guitar vivisectionist Keith Rowe and others) Eddie Prévost helped define a new improvising ethos closer to contemporary European “art” forms than to anything ever “filed under jazz” before or after.

You don’t become the most commercially successful R&B act of all time — resetting the record for most weeks at #1 on the Billboard singles chart a jaw-dropping three times — by bragging about the size of your dick. Tailoring their advances to the most timid sexual prey, these four nice Philadelphia boyz carefully cushioned a come-on such as “I’ll make love to you” with a polite “When you want me to.”

Following hard on the heels of 2008′s Lie Down In The Light, Beware is Will Oldham’s alter-ego Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s eighth solo album. It is – unsurprisingly – an organic work of great depth and texture. The melody and sense of acute longing that has infused Oldham’s work since his earliest days with Palace is very much present and correct. Beware is an intimate album, full of strong emotion and underlying hope.