Soul Sides — Dizzy Gillespie: Manteca (America, 1974, The Source) Dizzy first made “Manteca” famous back in the mid-1940s and it would become one of his most important recordings in terms of introducing Latin influences into American pop music (and obvio... more info

Time — Just before 2:30 on the afternoon of Feb. 9, the Beatles got the signal to take their places for the first of two full dress rehearsals in front of a full, hysterical audience. If they seemed daunted at making their American debut, it didn’t show.... more info

The Independent — Paul Smith, a jazz pianist, composer and arranger who worked with such greats as Bing Crosby, Nat "King" Cole and Dizzy Gillespie, has died at 91.      more info

Guardian Music — Inventive 60s jazz drummer who played with Rollins, Coltrane and GetzTo Pete La Roca, the American jazz drummer and composer, who has died aged 74, jazz was a swinging music that contained the promise of surprise. When jazz stopped swinging, and stop... more info

Guardian Music — Grammy award-winning musician and 10 band members recovering after bus overturned on motorway, killing driverJazz bassist Marcus Miller and 10 members of his band have been injured following a serious bus crash in Switzerland. The driver of the vehic... more info

78s — Das Akkordeon spielt im Jazz keine nennenswerte Rolle. Zu Unrecht, wie das John Plonsky Quintet beweist. Dizzy Gillespie, der Trompeter mit den legendären Pausbacken, legte sich Mitte der 40er-Jahre ein Pseudonym zu, weil er als Studiomusiker tätig... more info

Mercury News, California — Arturo Sandoval, coming to the Bay Area, pays tribute to Dizzy Gillespie. more info

Guardian Music — (Dreyfus)This is bass-guitar star Marcus Miller's UK-tour repertoire of last month, plus a few bonuses, including the finely spun vocals of young New Yorker Gretchen Parlato and the rasping ones of Dr John on two tracks. For jazz-funk fans, it's para... more info

Soul Sides — (Editor’s note: Over the next few weeks, you’ll see some new voices joining us here at Soul Sides. Today is the debut of Dave Ma, who runs his own outstanding music blog, Nerdtorious, and he’s offering his take on the new 2-CD anthology chro... more info

Topix — Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for television and movies and worked with legendary musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, has died. more info