The Observer,as media sponsor to the sixteenth edition South Bank’s Meltdown Festival announces today Sunday 28th March in a mini-feature by Neil Spencer that Ornette Coleman is to curate this year’s version of the Festival, and that there will be gigs reflecting influences on him.

Meltdown will run from June 13th to 21stThe South Bank’s site is a bit tight-lipped as to what will be in it.

If you want to know what the events are , the South Bank’s marketing department has set up a Twitter page (ooh!), you can register for an email newsletter (aah!) , you can sign up for text messages (eeh!).

Or I guess you’ll read it on LondonJazz…..