All About Jazz — 14-time GRAMMY winner and Blues Legend will receive the Institute's Founder's Award; Microsoft Co-Founder will receive the 2008 Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award (Los Angeles, Calif.)--the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz announced that 14-time GR... more info

JamBase — By: Josh Potter Ah, remember when funky, instrumental music wasn't simply lumped in with other bands that "jammed" and actually got the credit it deserved for all the crazy influences it drew upon? Garaj Mahal does. It's been no secret amongst ... more info

All About Jazz — By: Bear Connelly In a world that is littered with young pop stars that are more or less drafted from the Disney ranks and plopped into any and all situations in which they must follow orders from management, labels, promoters etc., it's refreshing ... more info

JamBase — By: Bear Connelly In a world that is littered with young pop stars that are more or less drafted from the Disney ranks and plopped into any and all situations in which they must follow orders from management, labels, promoters etc., it's refreshin... more info

All About Jazz — Harry Scorzo, one of the most skillful and original jazz violinists today, brings a group of masterful jazz veterans to play tunes he's written in tribute to his childhood jazz heros: Count Basie, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock. You'll h... more info

Big Stereo — Tech-Noir is the club from Terminator. Tech-Noir Mixtape is what djs La Grève Générale would play there. Android dance party, watch out Sarah Connor. La Grève Générale - Tech-Noir Mixtape Tracklisting 1. Harold Faltermeyer - open... more info

Idolator — Next year, the legendary jazz label Blue Note turns 70, and to celebrate they've put together the all-star septet the Blue Note 7—pianist Bill Charlap, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, alto saxophonist/flutist Steve Wilso... more info

All About Jazz — The 51st annual Monterey Jazz Festival ended Sunday, shortly before midnight, with a set by Herbie Hancock that felt straight out of a Vegas casino. Too bad that Herbie, given the place of honor at the nation's best jazz festival, didn't close things... more info

Mercury News, California — The 51st annual Monterey Jazz Festival ended Sunday, shortly before midnight, with a set by Herbie Hancock that felt straight out of a Vegas casino. It was a glib finish to a festival that was anything but glib. For me, Monterey, was rich with great ... more info

All About Jazz — Birli LAGRNE (with Hadrien Feraud): Electric Side (Dreyfus Jazz) in stores 11/11/2008 Electric Side, the new album by guitar great Birli Lagrne, finds the artist reconnecting with his jazz/rock persona, in the spirit of his 1980's collaborations wi... more info