ContactMusic — Veteran actress CLORIS LEACHMAN has opened up about her brief romance with GENE HACKMAN - the pair enjoyed one night of passion in the 1970s. The 82-year-old ... more info

All About Jazz — When it comes to trading licks, Jazz St. Louis bossman Gene Dobbs Bradford thinks that cooking and music make a powerful duo. "When you cook a meal, it's like a performance," he says, "a one-time experience, very finite. Done right, it has a certain... more info

All About Jazz — Old pal Tim Ryan called my attention to an interview Judith Schlesinger, our leading combination jazz writer/psychotheraprist, did with guitarist {{Gene Bertoncini = 4961}} nearly a year ago. The interview ran on the All About Jazz web site, and I mi... more info

Tracksounds — Along with several other key Varese Sarabande releases comes composer SCOTT GLASGOW's latest effort, THE GENE GENERATION. As you'll remember, we reviewed his score for ROBOTECH:THE SHADOW CHRONICLES and interviewed the composer about the experience... more info

Guardian Music — Stand aside, kids: there's a new group of rock'n'rollers in town. Alexis Petridis looks at how the over-50s may just be the saviours of our troubled music industryThe Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall is not the kind of venue that rock bands dream of pla... more info

All About Jazz — From the final article by Gene Stout, Seattle PI Music Critic: My time on the music beat — from 1983 to the present — has been a wild ride, with hundreds of interviews with some pretty famous people and hundreds of concert reviews. It h... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Sitting on a jet airliner lofted 20,000 feet above the patchwork farmland of some midwestern state, you can merely look around the cabin to get an idea of where this plane is heading. Every other row is littered with those flocking to Austin for a w... more info

Idolator — Cocky know-it-all Kiss frontman Gene Simmons and cocky know-it-all industry email pest Bob Lefsetz have been having a bitter battle in a series of hilarious correspondences. And now they're going to debate for real! It's gonna be like Jon Stewart and... more info

All About Jazz — The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, directed by Bobby Sanabria, presents “FOR HORACE, MANNY and MARIO” a tribute to Horace Silver, Manny Albam and Mario Bauz, on Friday, March 20 at 7:30 pm in the School’s John ... more info