All About Jazz — Mike Zwerin, a jazz trombonist who became a prominent jazz critic and author, died Friday in Paris after a long illness. He was 79. When he was 18, nervously sitting in with Art Blakeys group at Mintons Playhouse, in Harlem, Mr. Zwerin was noticed b... more info

All About Jazz — The spirit of Miles Davis was in the air at Barnsdall Gallery Theater on Saturday night. A genre deeply tied to its history, jazz is somewhat unique in that its players are inevitably linked to those who defined their given instrument's sound. Take... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The trumpeter taps into Miles Davis' fire and finesse Saturday night at Barnsdall Gallery Theater. The spirit of Miles Davis was in the air at Barnsdall Galler... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The trumpeter taps into Miles Davis' fire and finesse Saturday night at Barnsdall Gallery Theater. The spirit of Miles Davis was in the air at Barnsdall Gallery Theater on Saturday night. A genre deeply tied to its history, jazz is... more info

All About Jazz — Mike Zwerin, a jazzman who got his first break jamming with Miles Davis a half-century ago, has died aged 79. Zwerin was a trombonist who became the Paris-based jazz critic for the International Herald Tribune and later for Bloomberg News. He died a... more info

Guardian Music — (ACT)Maybe it's an indication of the poise and clarity running beneath the apparent mayhem in composer Django Bates's music that he chose Swedish singer Josefine Cronholm as principal vocalist for his Quiet Nights band. This stately, pure-toned vocal... more info

Guardian Music — At first, it seems Erykah Badu's revolution has been put on hold – but, says Alexis Petridis, digging deeper pays dividendsIt sold millions of albums, but there was always something underwhelming about the mid-90s genre nu-soul. It was indebte... more info

All About Jazz — By PicoDid Columbia Records just pull a forgotten Miles Davis Second Great Quintet record out of the vault and dropped it unsuspectingly on the public? Because when I listen to Jeremy Pelt's new CD Men Of Honor (released January 26), it often feels l... more info

Guardian Music — Photographer whose candid images helped define rock's halcyon era of the 60s and 70sThe photographer Jim Marshall, who has died aged 74, was as colourful and unpredictable as many of the rock stars he shot. "I've been busted a few times for drugs, gu... more info

All About Jazz — Since the beginning of time there has been the telling of oral history. Stories have been passed down through generations, of family, of ancestry, of traditions, of myth, all indispensable to human identity. In fact, it is essential for a people to r... more info