Guardian Music — Photographer Jamie-James Medina tells author Nick Tosches about the living legends of American music that he spent a year chronicling for Observer Music Monthly – from Jerry Lee Lewis to Pete Seeger, and Etta James to Sonny Rollins more info

Observer Music Monthly captures the giants of US music, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Pete Seeger and Sonny Rollins more info

All About Jazz — PRESERVATION HALL AND SONY RED DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCE PRESERVATION: AN ALBUM TO BENEFIT PRESERVATION HALL and THE PRESERVATION HALL MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM A LANDMARK COLLABORATION BRINGING TOGETHER LEGENDARY AND EMERGING ARTISTS INCLUDING PETE SEEG... more info

Guardian Music — Singer, folklorist and teacher who was part of a famous American musical dynastyBess Lomax Hawes, who has died aged 88, was a member of one of America's folk music dynasties. Her father, John Lomax, was a folk-song collector who discovered the singer... more info

Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit M.T.A. and spent a lifetime documenting ... more info

Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died. more info

USA Today Music — Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit M.T.A. and spent a lifetime documenting ... more info

Guardian Music — The supermarket's Christmas ads will feature Kerslake as part of a deal to promote her debut albumWaitrose is to launch a Christmas TV campaign featuring a track by 21-year old classical music singer Camilla Kerslake, the first signing to Take That s... more info

All About Jazz — Louis Armstrong is credited with saying: "All music is folk music; I ain't never heard no horse sing a song." Another variation on the quote is "All music is folk music, because we're all just folk."Quotations aside, there are some interesting jazz-f... more info

All About Jazz — Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will perform a special benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY. The concert will begin at 2:00 pm. Rollins's performance... more info