Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — MONTREAL - When the Montreal International Jazz Festival staged its first event some 30 years ago, co-founders Andre Menard and Alain Simard hoped it would be a "nice place of convergence" for musicians and music lovers. more info

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating Pete Candoli's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Pete CandoliIt would seem that Pete Candoli has been biding his time in the wings all these years. While Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Miles ... more info

All About Jazz — The nearly ubiquitous Miles Davis notwithstanding, which jazz musician from the St. Louis area has been heard by the most people throughout the world? It's probably impossible to measure something like that with any degree of exactitude, but one cert... more info

All About Jazz — "In the church of jazz, the album 'Kind of Blue' is one of the holy relics," writes Ashley Kahn in "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece" (DaCapo Press, 2000), one of two books written exclusively about the celebrated album. It is... more info

Totally Fuzzy — terrakeo said...Swingin' To Michael Jackson: A Tribute (2000)RIP Michael Jackson :(http://www.zonadejazz.comjimmark66 said...Episode # 135 of Jim's Child Of The '60s Now Posted!!!It's been a great first week of Summer, and what could make such a week... more info

Soul Sides — If the news is indeed true that Michael Jackson has died today, a mere 50 years old, it's hard to greet the news with anything but a mixture of sadness and ambivalence. After all, how many other artists have seemingly done more damage to their own le... more info

Express Newspapers — IN THE Eastwood household of Kyle's boyhood, father Clint's Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie records were rarely off the decks. more info

Express Newspapers — SONY heralds 1959 the greatest year in jazz with a 50th anniversary reissue of three landmark works. more info