WFMU's Beware of the Blog — Scott Williams played two pieces of spacey music, one from big band leader Don Ellis, then one from The North Sea. Ellis specialized in complex time signatures, and was using electronics on his albums two years before Miles Davis made... more info

ContactMusic — Late legends Miles Davis and Edith Piaf are to be honoured this summer Jun12 with an international stamp tribute Officials at the U S Postal Service and their counterparts at Frances La Poste will issue new Forever stamps saluting the two stars... more info

Guardian Music — (Whirlwind)Andre Canniere is a versatile young New York trumpeter, jazz/classical crossover composer and film-score writer who moved to London in 2008. This is his first UK recording, with local musicians. Listeners to the music of Tim Berne, or Stev... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — To call Ruthie Foster a blues singer is to miss a big chunk of her allure as a vocal stylist, one who draws from a range of influences on her deep, soulful new album “Let It Burn.” Recording in New Orleans with Grammy-winning producer John Chelew... more info

Guardian Music — When its star artist Esbjörn Svensson died in a scuba accident, ACT Records almost called it a day. Instead, it's just reached its 20th anniversary on top of the jazz worldIf Stax, Motown or Sun Records figure in pop iconography as labels almost as ... more info

Guardian Music — It's been 12 years since the reclusive soul genius released Voodoo, and now there is mounting evidence he's ready to re-enter the game, albeit in his own weird wayReclusive soul genius D'Angelo resurfaced yesterday in a typically weird way: with a co... more info

Guardian Music — Actor says his long anticipated film will be a 'cubist' take on the jazz legend's later life and not a conventional biopicAlmost two years after it was announced that Don Cheadle would direct a film about Miles Davis, taking the lead role himself, th... more info

Guardian Music — What can Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach entrepreneurs? Quite a lot, say Warwick academicsDuke Ellington, Miles Davis and Art Blakey are widely recognised as three of the greatest jazz band leaders of the 20th century. But did you ever consider ... more info

Guardian Music — Influential American jazz multi-instrumentalist who remained at the cutting edgeThe multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers, who has died aged 88, was one of the last messengers from the 1940s bebop era and the classic decades of jazz. Accomplished on tenor... more info

Mercury News, California — ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Sam Rivers, an internationally-known jazz musician who played with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, has died. more info