All About Jazz — Benny Powell, the veteran trombonist, died last Saturday in New York. Born in New Orleans, Powell was treasured by his colleagues as a superb musician and teacher and as a gentleman who observed old-South standards of courtesy and consideration. Am... more info

Guardian Music — The alto saxophonist Freddy Syer, who has died aged 80, was a member of that elite group of young jazz musicians in postwar London that mastered the technical demands and harmonic complexity of bebop, the new music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gilles... more info

Guardian Music — We all agree he's a pop legend, but a jazz great too? There's a lot more to Stevie Wonder than you might realiseWhen Stevie Wonder closes this year's Glastonbury festival next Sunday, he'll be playing a greatest hits package, culled from nearly half ... more info

Guardian Music — Versatile and risque, she was known as the first lady of Latin jazzThe Afro-Cuban singer Graciela Peréz-Gutierrez, who has died aged 94, was widely celebrated as "the first lady of Latin jazz" and known to her fans simply as Graciela. The Latin band... more info

Guardian Music — Last week we wanted minimal lyrics, this week it's as florid, or even as floral, as you likeThere was a brief moment on the 10 words or fewer thread in which I imagined we might go a whole week without a single, solitary Bob Dylan nom. I feared that ... more info

Guardian Music — How much can you say in not many words? Plenty, it would seem, even if it doesn't always make that much senseThe value of brevity, when considered in the whole among a broad range of qualities the majority of which would be deemed by those of a disce... more info

All About Jazz — Please tune in for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, Friday, May 14, 2010 featuring the FEDERICO BRITOS GROUP Multiple Grammy award-winning violinist and composer, Federico Britos, is a musical legend. He has serv... more info

All About Jazz — Hal McKusick was and remains a jazz musician's musician. Even in his earliest days in Boyd Raeburn's band in the mid-1940s, Hal's distinct sound on the alto saxophone was admired by bandmates Lucky Thompson, Oscar Pettiford and Dizzy Gillespie as wel... more info

All About Jazz — Aguabella, a sacred drummer of the Santeria religion, left Cuba in the 1950s. He performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Palmieri, Carlos Santana and the Doors. Francisco Aguabella plays the conga drums in Holl... more info

Topix — Francisco Aguabella, the Cuban-born percussionist whose Latin rhythms backed up Peggy Lee, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon, has died. more info