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The Beach Boys' California Girls and Bob Marley's Catch a Fire are among 25 songs to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The U.S. Recording Academy released its list of 2010 inductees on Wednesday, ranging from Dipper Mouth Blues (1923) by King Oliver & His Jazz Band to Birdland (1977) by Weather Report. Read More

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will swing into Harrah's Lake Tahoe Saturday, Nov. 21 to cast its jumpin' jive spell in the South Shore Room. No strangers to the Lake Tahoe area, the seven-man big band revival group has wowed fans in Reno, Tahoe and even a Lake Tahoe Music Festival performance on Donner Lake's West End Beach. Read More

Jazz at Lincoln Center's Swing University offers a deeper understanding and appreciation of jazz through adult education classes for everyone from novice to aficionado. Read More

The jazz myth of Chicago is powerful, dating back to 1922, when King Oliver summoned Louis Armstrong from New Orleans to change the world. Read More

Recorded jazz is still under a century old, but in a little over nine decades an enormous quantity of music has amassed. Read More

This weekend, the sound of seagulls cawing and ocean waves rolling onto the beach will be mixed with the sound of trumpets, clarinets, banjos and tubas. Read More

The product of a collaboration between trumpeter Dr Andrew Blick (think Malcolm McDowell if he'd grown up stuck into the part of one of the unpleasant characters he played onscreen), his septuagenarian dad and various London-based musicians, Gyratory System's debut album The Sound Board Breathes is one of the most unusual records released in 2009, and another corker from the ever-reliable Angular stable. Read More

A blues singer perspires profusely all over herself and her microphone, a modern-jazz saxophonist spins a series of abstract lines out of his horn, teenagers in pompadour and poodle skirt lindy-hop to rock 'n' roll, a hot jazz trumpeter blows so hard that he literally levitates above the crowd. Read More

"Music To My Eyes" may seem like an odd title for an art exhibit but it strikes the right chord for two artists, Yolanda Klappert and Ken Fermoyle, who are featured in the Topanga Canyon Gallery show that opens October 26. Read More

Queen City Jazz Band, a community favorite since the 1950s, will open the LUMC Fine Arts Series with a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Read More