Guardian Music — Distinguished and subtle New Orleans arranger and musicianWhen the tape stopped rolling as the string section finished playing Wardell Quezergue's orchestration of Mona Lisa, the old Nat King Cole song, for the Neville Brothers' album Fiyo On the Bay... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sloan @ KF in July (more by Dana (Distortion) Yavin) today in NYC * 826NYC Prom @ MHOW * JJ Grey @ City Winery * Todd Rundgren @ BB King's * Holy Ghost! @ Tribeca Grand * Tell Your Friends... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Lee "Scratch" Perry at Highline Ballroom (more by Greg Cristman) Lee "Scratch" Perry has a few limited dates scheduled in the US in September, including one SATURDAY NIGHT (9/10) at BB King's with Subatomic Sound System and Jahdan Blakkamore. Tickets... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — today in NYC * The Yardbirds @ BB King's * John Doe @ Soundfix Records * TVOTR movie @ Nitehawk Cinema * Aloe Blacc @ Highline Ballroom * Umphrey's McGee @ Brooklyn Bowl * The Big Terrific @ Cameo... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Hurricane Cat today in NYC * Wye Oak @ US Open * Questlove @ Brooklyn Bowl * Diamond Head @ BB King's * Rachelle Garniez @ Barbes * MC Chris @ Death By Audio * Michael Pisaro @ The Stone... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Greg Cristman & Suren Karapetyan, words by BBG From Ashes Rise From Ashes Rise returned to NYC on Monday night (8/15), their first NYC date since their reunion and since playing BB King's in 2005 with Subhumans and... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — today in NYC * Yellowman @ B.B. King's * Queen Latifah @ Wingate Field * Outernational @ Bowery Electric * The Woes, Bird Dog, Turner Cody @ The Rock Shop * Risk! Storyslam w/ Kevin Allison @ The Pit... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Peter Wolf will play a Brooklyn show at The Bell House on October 28 in addition to the the previosuly mentioned Manhattan and CT shows he has scheduled. According to The Bell House's website, the show will be a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dana (Distortion) Yavin NY. yall treated a brother right last night at BB.Kings. We off to Canada now, but thanks for the love yall show us, the funk never forgets a good funkin'! Now that the Funkship is... more info

Guardian Music — Union Chapel, LondonBoris Johnson and Sebastian Coe aren't known to be great cheerleaders for jazz, so their public support for London's current BluesFest is confirmation of the event's high profile. It also suggests, of course, that they're keen to ... more info