Jaco Pastorius

The Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio will take its jazz-influenced rock to the stage Saturday at the Live Wire Music Hall. Rodgers is an eclectic musician whose influences range from rock, bluegrass, gospel and jazz. Read More

Turnaround , a CD/DVD project documenting performances of eight original works by composer and arranger Michael Treni scored for a 16-piece jazz ensemble, is set for release on November 24, 2010 by the Bell Production Company. Read More

Perry Henzell, who co-authored, directed and produced the pioneering reggae movie "The Harder They Come," dies in Kingston, Jamaica at the age of 70. 2002 - Girls Aloud is formed on the British reality television show "Popstars: The Rivals." 2002 - Oasis postpones its remaining German tour dates after Liam Gallagher sustains injuries to his mouth and teeth in a Munich hotel brawl. 1999 - Jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd dies of cancer. Read More

Let me start by recognizing that there is the genre of jazz/rock fusion. Read More

In a career that spans three decades and a discography that includes more than a dozen eclectic and innovative recordings, five-time GRAMMY nominee Mike Stern has established himself as one of the premier jazz and jazz-fusion guitarists and composers of his generation. Read More

Esperanza Spalding is one of those game-changing musical phenomena who break into the spotlight so suddenly that their name is initially more famous than their music, even among the cognoscenti. Read More

Bona was born in Minta, East Cameroon into a family of musicians, which enabled him to start learning music from a young age. Read More

You don't have to go back too far to find the musical inspiration in Zeke Martin's past. Read More

We played in a jazz group together called, for no apparent reason, the Pre-Flattened Cats. One day I was in Mike's room, high up in one of the dorm towers, sitting on the windowsill and looking out over the sunlit fields that ringed our small state school in northern New York. Mike said, "I'm going to put on a record for you and you're either going to fall in love with it or never like it." Read More

Josh Block's underwear hangs from a clothesline outside his 1950s Spartan trailer in Driftwood. Read More