All About Jazz — For the last dozen years, percussionist-composer Anthony Brown's innovative Asian American Orchestra has reinvented classics of American music by composers Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and George Gershwin from a Pacific Rim perspe... more info

All About Jazz — It's eerily appropriate, in a way—Jimmy Cobb is the only musician missing from the photos of the famous "Kind of Blue" recording sessions that decorate his bedroom. He's also the last one still living, a fact he's reminded of every day he awake... more info

MTV.com News — 'I hope I'm around to see many more of these,' he tells MTV News.By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Sway Calloway Rakim Photo: MTV News With its mix of headlining veterans and upstart openers, the Rock the Bells Tour bridges the gap bet... more info

All About Jazz — Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola October 2010 Lineup Coca-Cola Generations In Jazz Festival Sept 6-Oct 10 WHAT/WHO: The Coca-Cola Generations In Jazz Festival, which began September 6, 2010, continues through October 10, 2010. It features a full array of jazz... more info

Guardian Music — Rock'n'roll effectively kept jazz out of the charts in the 60s, but the samba craze briefly rekindled hopes of a renaissanceBy 1962, jazz was beginning to be perceived as hard work if you weren't a dedicated fan. Ornette Coleman had already hurtled o... more info

Muzjiks — In the time I have spent not writing, my ears have taken me in many directions--many of them being diametrically opposed. This is one of those times. With my discovery, and more importantly exploration, of the Flying Lotus' music, I thought more an... more info

Guardian Music — Perhaps the most influential saxophonist all of time, Coltrane produced an intensely soulful sound that reached way beyond the jazz cognoscentiMiles Davis was a good authority on the saxophonist John Coltrane, who played in one of the trumpeter's ban... more info

Totally Fuzzy — themusicologist said... Tales From The Underground #3 The Soul Stirrers – Jesus Wash Away My Troubles When ‘the Lion’ roars you have to listen..Sam Cooke..the greatest singer ever to record. Rarely equaled NEVER bettered. Listen Tune… http://... more info

Guardian Music — (Smalltown Superjazz)There's a caveat to those five stars – they mean five for admirers of flat-out, no-prisoners, no-tunes free-jazz improvisation, which almost certainly adds up to zilch stars for listeners who run screaming from the room at suc... more info

All About Jazz — Ravi Coltrane, the highly regarded tenor and soprano saxophonist, is the newest addition to the roster of Blue Note Records, with an album due out next spring. His signing unites the most storied label in jazz, one of the last majors standing, wit... more info