All About Jazz — Today, we remember Texas jazz guitarist Herb Ellis, who has passed at 88 in his Los Angeles home after a long bout with Alzheimer's. Over a career that spanned six decades, Ellis worked with a number of legends, including Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Dorse... more info

Metalsucks — Metal Insider’s Bram Teitelman has found the latest masterpiece by Andy Rehfeldt, the same brilliant man who previously gave the world a smoove jazz version of Lamb of God’s “In Your Words” and a video of Louis Armstrong doing a... more info

The Playlist — Last month we reported that Forest Whitaker was still putting the pieces in place for his gestating Louis Armstrong biopic, "Satchmo." Back then, the actor was reticent to talk too much about the film, saying that the film was still at the "budgeting... more info

Guardian Music — A new initiative is highlighting the value of music to a generation that thinks it should be as freely available as tap waterYesterday saw the launch of the industry initiative Music Matters. It's a two-pronged project with a range of short, animated... more info

Guardian Music — Eminent violinist and orchestra leaderThe distinguished violinist Max Salpeter, who has died aged 101, led such orchestras as the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Mozart Players, New London Orchestra, Boyd Neel Orchestra, Pro-Arte Orchestra and the rec... more info

All About Jazz — If you were a record producer in the late 1940s, you pretty much had to invent the job. At the dawn of the LP era, there were no rules, no models and no mentors. As George Avakian discovered at Columbia Records, new ways to package pop and jazz music... more info

The Newsroom — Forest tells us what to expect from the upcoming film on the life and music of Louie Armstrong. more info

ContactMusic — FOREST WHITAKER is sure to shock fans of jazz crooner LOUIS ARMSTRONG by focusing on 'Satchmo's' love of marijuana in his next movie.The Crying Game star will star... more info

The Playlist — Way back in 2008, both Forest Whitaker and the team of Charles S. Dutton and John Sayles announced Louis Armstrong biopics in the works. Dutton and Sayles were developing a potential 6-hour mini-series for HBO which, given that we've heard nothing si... more info

All About Jazz — "This music changed my life," said Byron Stripling, who paid homage to Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings from the Roaring '20s in an extraordinary concert last night in the Lincoln Theatre. Stripling, artistic director of the Colum... more info