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Roy Haynes was standing outside his Long Island home recently, looking at his white '74 Bricklin, the short-lived Canadian-built car that was the first to feature push-button gull-wing doors. Read More

This weekend is opening weekend of the 14th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival, with long-anticipated performances by the Calvin Keys Organ Quartet on Friday, the sold-out Dixieland at the Bakery show on Saturday, and two performances plus receptions by the classic Freddy Cole Quartet at Barndiva on Sunday. Read More

The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) will present its annual Lifetime Achievement Award to two of the world's most renowned jazz artists, Kenny Barron and Ron Carter , at its 8th annual Festival, held June 1-10. Read More

Melody Gardot Aims For The Space Between Notes

  • 4:17 PM May 31
  • Source: NPR

The other day, I had a conversation with Melody Gardot about space. Read More

This weekend is opening weekend of the 14th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival, with long-anticipated performances by the Calvin Keys Organ Quartet on Friday, the sold-out Dixieland at the Bakery show on Saturday, and two performances plus receptions by the classic Freddy Cole Quartet at Barndiva on Sunday. Read More

SAN DIEGO , May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Slacker, Inc. today launched the Silversun Pickups Showcase Radio, a station that is programmed and hosted by the members of the popular alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California . Read More

A Grammy-award winning jazz artist of international fame is returning to his Roxborough roots Tuesday. Read More

NEW YORK , May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ultimate year-round jazz festival of Legacy Recordings continues to set a new industry standard with three new Complete Album Collections from the Columbia and RCA archives by the greatest names in modern jazz: CHARLES MINGUS - THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA & RCA ALBUMS COLLECTION ( Columbia /Legacy) – 7 titles, 10 CDs. THE THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET - THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA STUDIO ALBUMS COLLECTION ( Columbia /Legacy) – 6 titles, 6 CDs. WEATHER REPORT – THE COLUMBIA ALBUMS 1971-1975 ( Columbia /Legacy) – 6 titles, 7 CDs. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20060130/LEGACYLOGO ) Newly assembled and affordably priced, this latest wave of jazz titles in the Complete Album Collections box set series will be available at the PopMarket.com website –  http://complete.popmarket.com – as well as at all general retail starting July 30th through Columbia / Legacy , a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT . Read More

Since first joining forces in 1998 with guitarist and kindred spirit Jordan Officer in her Swing Band, Montreal-based singer Susie Arioli has been casting her seductive spell on jazz fans throughout Canada, and in Europe. Read More

Mundell Lowe's career reads like a select list of jazz highlights from the 20th Century and beyond, as befits a guitar great whose past collaborators include such American music icons as Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones and Stan Getz. A six-string master of unusual concision and eloquence, he turned 90 on April 21. Read More

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