All About Jazz — New York, New York -- Free or modern progressive jazz can take many forms but for seasoned artists like trumpet/flugel horn player Brian Groder and pianist Burton Greene the outcome is always definitive and enduring. On their first collaboration fo... more info

Pitchfork - TV — A documentary on unsung producer and engineer Dowd, who worked with everyone from Ray Charles to John Coltrane to Otis Redding over his 60-year career. The 82-minute film is shown in its entirety. more info

All About Jazz — NPR: Wilson is "One of the Finest Saxophonists in the Business" JAZZIZ: "An Especially Skilled and Sensitive Jazz Saxophonist" Acclaimed saxophonist Steve Wilson shifts from sideman to center-stage in the months ahead, with a series of events ce... more info

All About Jazz — Jazz St. Louis has scheduled the next meeting of their CD Listening Club for 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 10 at Borders Books and Music, 1519 S. Brentwood Blvd in Brentwood.The featured CD this month will be John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, the hist... more info

All About Jazz — PRESTIGE RECORDS RELEASES SIDE STEPS, A 5-CD BOXED SET OF JOHN COLTRANE'S PRESTIGE RECORDINGS AS A SIDEMAN TO A HOST OF JAZZ LUMINARIES Read the All About Jazz Review The artistic prowess of saxophonist John Coltrane was so expansive and influenti... more info

Guardian Music — After the 1960s, jazz got loud and angry. And so did its record sleevesIt was a time when white visitors to New York took a deep breath and rode the subway to 125th Street, since cab drivers cruising the midtown streets could not be persuaded to take... more info

All About Jazz — (photo by John Rogers)Listener alert! WBGO-FM and NPR presented the Billy Hart Quartet live in concert last night (9/23/09) and you can download the concert as well as Josh Jackson's informative interview with the drummer/ bandleader by going hereAn... more info

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating John Coltrane's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY John ColtraneJohn William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. At the age of three his family moved to High Point, NC, where young ... more info

All About Jazz — "...Rollins is still the reigning god of the tenor saxophone, one of jazz's most innovative and influential pioneers... a volcano of fierce inventiveness and raw, urgent power." Washington Post "Nobody rivals his fluid mastery..." Boston Globe ... more info

All About Jazz — Pithecanthropus Erectus was Charles Mingus's breakthrough as a leader and composer. The year was 1956. The defining moment was framed in no less than the historic Atlantic Studios in New York City, with the legendary producer Nesuhi Ertegn at the r... more info