All About Jazz — Boston is celebrating John Coltrane - one of America's most influential musicians—the week of September 16-18, 2010 at Northeastern University with a series of lectures, audio visual exhibits and a concert. The idea for an annual John Coltrane M... more info

Guardian Music — American free jazz saxophonist with a passionate and rebellious soundNoah Howard, the alto saxophonist, who has died of a cerebral haemorrhage aged 67, never built a reputation as substantial as those of many of his early playing partners – such as... more info

Guardian Music — (Session Work)The young Slovenian saxist Jure Pukl's latest album (made in New York with locals including the celebrated drummer Marcus Gilmore) is hooked into a taut, hip-hop-influenced contemporary American atmosphere. Pukl is a player of patience ... more info

All About Jazz — I often refer to the Spiritual side of Jazz and in particular,.free Jazz,.no less than like a preacher on the pulpit.Some folks consider a spiritual perspective on music an excuse to just play wild and free with no real focus and or maybe no real ski... more info

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