All About Jazz — The Litchfield Jazz Festival returns August 6th--8th to the Springs Center and grounds of Kent School in Kent, Connecticut where it will celebrate its 15th anniversary. The festival is renowned for "booking the next best thing in jazz" and has includ... more info

All About Jazz — Today is Canada Day, the celebration of the anniversary of the Constitution Act from 1867, which united two British colonies and a province of the British Empire into the single country of Canada. Thanks to Canada for providing us with several jazz... more info

Reuters — PARIS (Billboard) - Melody Gardot is the latest beneficiary of France's long love affair with American jazz. Following in the footsteps of French favorites like Josephine Baker, Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell and, more recently, Diana Krall, singer-songwr... more info

Mercury News, California — A lot of people want to shove Melody Gardot into the race to become the next Norah Jones or Diana Krall. more info

Guardian Music — Elvis Costello is the latest pop star to pull performances in Israel. But can a boycott do more harm than good?Last week, Elvis Costello became the latest, though probably not the last, musician to pull out of a concert in Israel under pressure from ... more info

All About Jazz — It is one of the longest running jazz event in the world according to Don Z. Miller who, with his late wife Sue, created the first Paradise Valley Jazz Party in 1978. Since the Millers conceived, produced, and underwrote this event, hundreds of the l... more info

All About Jazz — SONGSTRESS ROBIN MCKELLETO RELEASE MESS AROUND ON E1 MUSICALBUM SHOWCASES A NUMBER OF GENRESINCLUDING SOUL, BLUES, AND JAZZU.S. TOUR DATES IN SUPPORTOF MAY 4TH RELEASE"I've wanted to do this kind of album for a long time. It's a project that spans a ... more info

All About Jazz — As is the current lot of jazz writ large, singers in the idiom rate comparatively low on the public awareness and consumption charts. There are arguable exceptions like Diana Krall and if the definition is particularly inclusive, Norah Jones, but mos... more info

Live Daily — The constantly touring Willie Nelson [ tickets ] has once again added more stops to his US trek behind last August's "American Classic." The Red-Headed Stranger returns to the tour trail March 11 in Saint Louis, performing more than a dozen Midwes... more info

Altsounds — Diana Krall and her very special guests Madeleine Peyroux and Melody Gardot have completed the New Zealand leg and both Perth performances of this very special tour and are ready to serenade audiences across the rest of Australia. Be it at idyll... more info