All About Jazz — By Tad Hendrickson A major jazz milestone takes place this week as the Village Vanguard celebrates its 75th birthday. This legendary club located in the West Village neighborhood of New York City has been what many believe to be the heart and soul... more info

All About Jazz — Grammy-nominated Trumpeter Christian Scott to Release Yesterday You Said Tomorrow March 30 on Concord Jazz Christian Scott On March 30, star trumpeter Christian Scott will release Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, his all-new 10-song collection. The ... more info

All About Jazz — Tokyo is a city filled with secret jazz fanatics. Theres always a chance that the non-descript, suited salaryman sitting next to you on that train has a room in his apartment thats packed to the ceiling with old Miles Davis and John Coltrane vinyl LP... more info

All About Jazz — Bye Bye Blackbird, Miles Davis Quintet CD 'Round About Midnight (Columbia 94750) Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums). Composed by Mort Dixon and Ray Henderson Rec... more info

All About Jazz — Austin Chronicle Aural History Hannibal Lokumbe and Jeff Lofton's Jazz Traditionalism BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ Photo by John Anderson "I don't know him," admitted Jeff Lofton of Hannibal Lokumbe a few weeks before this issue's cover shoot. "That's somebo... more info

All About Jazz — Pianist McCoy Tyner was just a teenager when Philadelphia neighbors like Bud Powell and the young Lee Morgan began hipping him to the sounds of modern jazz. Soon, Tyner was playing on his own, cutting his teeth with Benny Golson and Art Farmer, befor... more info

All About Jazz — John Coltrane once said, "Let the music speak for itself." The guitarist/composer and band leader Christopher Jentsch adds an interesting twist on that subject by opting to describe himself when asked about the broader subject of how to capture his m... more info

Guardian Music — (Planet Arts)This is an unusual venture featuring the great saxophonist David Liebman with a full-blown orchestra under trumpeter Bill Warfield's direction. The band mostly operates in a Gil Evans Sketches of Spain-era mode, on four different examina... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonThe blurb for French guitarist Biréli ­Lagrène claims he has returned to his roots and "the irresistible swing of Gypsy jazz". But Lagrène can play any style of jazz guitar from the last 80 years: lead and rhythm, el... more info

All About Jazz — Ed Thigpen, Chicago-born drummer with the Oscar Peterson Trio during the famed jazz pianist's popular early-'60s period, died on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the age of seventy-nine in Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen after being ill for a long perio... more info