All About Jazz — December 15, 2008, Sets at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. NEW YORK, NY - The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Musics Improvisation Ensemble presents a tribute to Dizzzy Gillespie and Tom McIntosh under the direction of Jimmy Owen with special guest Wyclif... more info

All About Jazz — Soupy Sales was presented with a medal and certificate for his “advancement and preservation of jazz” during "Brownie Speaks," a celebration of the legacy of Clifford Brown at The University of the Arts. Now in his early 80s, Sales was ... more info

All About Jazz — Few big bands were as flexible, innovative or influential in 1946 as Dizzy Gillespie's bebop orchestra. In the mid-1940s, most jazz bands and musicians were playing swing, a syncopated rhythmic style that had kept dance halls and record stores hummin... more info

All About Jazz — As a jazz journalist and historian, there's nothing I love more than a good jazz mystery. Tell me there's a story that has missing facts or hasn't been resolved, and I'm off to the races. Yesterday, when I spoke with legendary jazz writer Ira Gitler ... more info

Guardian Music — Miriam Makeba, the renowned South African singer and anti-apartheid campaigner who was forced into exile for more than three decades, died early yesterday morning after collapsing at a performance in Italy. She was 76. Known as Mama Africa to her man... more info

Guardian Music — Miriam Makeba, the renowned South African singer and anti-apartheid campaigner who was forced into exile for more than three decades, died early this morning after collapsing at a performance in Italy. She was 76. Known as "Mama Africa" to her many f... more info

All About Jazz — The Statesmen of Jazz will be giving a workshop and concert at VCU's Vlahcevic Concert Hall on Sunday. This incarnation of the band features Chuck Redd (vibraphone) with Houston Person (tenor saxophone), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Mickey Roker (drums), and... more info

All About Jazz — For jazz fans in the Philadelphia region, the following event may be of significant interest. On November 15, 2008, from 3pm to 8pm, the Philadelphia Clef Club at Broad and Fitzwater Streets will offer Jazz Up, Down, and Around: Taking Jazz in All Di... more info

Totally Fuzzy — YankeeBoy said... Time On My Hand's latest post Joe the Plumbers Pick Hits Blue Ash - Dusty Old Fairgrounds Bo Diddley - Hong Kong, Mississippi Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - Bloomdido Derek... [Visit the blog for the full post] more info

Guardian Music — As Dizzy Gillespie once said: 'It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play' more info