All About Jazz — Just a quick reminder from headquarters for your summer planning. The Fifth Annual Miles Davis Festival is Saturday, August 14, 2010 at the Commons, Lewis & Clark Community College, 5800 Godfrey Road, Godfrey, Illinois at 12:00 pm HEADLINERS: Mic... more info

All About Jazz — Domino Records announced today that percussionist Steve Reid, who performed with artists as varied as Martha Reeves, Miles Davis and Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, died in his sleep Monday after a fight with cancer. Perhaps most heard on Martha and the V... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Domino Records announced today that percussionist Steve Reid, who performed with artists as varied as Martha Reeves, Miles Davis and Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, died in his sleep Monday after a fight with cancer. Perhaps most heard on Martha &... more info

Pitchfork — Bad news from Domino: The great New York jazz drummer Steve Reid died of cancer last night. He was 66. As a teenager, Reid started out as a drummer in the Apollo Theater house band, working under Quincy Jones. He played on Martha and the Vandellas' "... more info

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All About Jazz — "I went on Dick Cavett many years ago and met Miles Davis. And I was talking about things like art synthesis and Picasso and you can do with acting what he did, or with music, and Miles came out and he got it, you know, he was looking at me, he gave ... more info

All About Jazz — Barry Finnerty is back. One of the top guitarists on the New York jazz scene in the 1970s, '80s and '90s -- his brilliant playing with the Crusaders, Miles Davis and the Brecker Brothers put him on the international map -- Finnerty has just released ... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM, 3 CDs)Arild Andersen – a cornerstone of Jan Garbarek's 1970 ECM debut, and with free-jazz legend Don Cherry among his admirers – has been one of Europe's great double-bassists for 40 years. Blessed with a rhythmic drive and a big,... more info