BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary.

A look back at the life of Oscar Peterson, a piano virtuoso who could play a variety of jazz styles.

Actor Alan Cumming shares the mixed emotions he felt on his Scottish stage comeback after 16 years.

The Morriston Orpheus choir splits as a row rages over the "hounding out" of its female conductor.

A memorial is being unveiled in London to singer Paul Robeson, blacklisted as "un-American" in the 1950s. Tony Benn, one of the surviving links with a support group in the UK, recalls meeting his hero.

A US businessman whose British wife died in the September 11 attacks says life is moving forward, but the world's attention once a year is still hard to deal with.

Opera star Dennis O'Neill will be director of a new international singing academy in Cardiff.

Sacha Distel was well-loved in his native France long before his big hit, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.

Legendary pop composer Burt Bacharach celebrates his 75th birthday on Wednesday.

One of Wales' most respected accompanists proves she can still knock out a mean tune at her 100th birthday party

Music students, frustrated at practising alone, get help from a new computer-aided training system being launched in the UK.

Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira helps the patrons of Ronnie Scott's club through the English winter.

Members of the British Empire were created by King George V in 1917 to reward services in the war effort by civilians.

Harry "Sweets" Edison, the legendary jazz trumpeter who accompanied singers such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, has died aged 83.