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

All About Jazz — The Ancient Future radio program, produced/hosted by Willard Jenkins, airs on WPFW 89.3 FM (listen live at wpfw.org), Pacifica Radio for the Washington, DC metro region. Artist Tune Album title Label Adonis Rose Lil Liza Jane Untouchable House Sw... more info

All About Jazz — Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Mifflin, 474 pages, $30) A good biography of a musician makes the reader want to listen. Alexander Wheelock Thayer triggered that compulsion with his life of Beethoven, Marion Hildesheimer wi... more info

All About Jazz — Critical carping and misguided stylistic arguments aside, in every period of his career Louis Armstrong was formidable in his playing and singing. His appearance with the All-Stars at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival reminded many who had taken Armstro... more info