Popdose — On Monday, America celebrated its 235th birthday. On Tuesday, a jury in Florida affirmed one of the principles that this country was founded on. more info

Reuters — RABAT (Reuters) - After a frenetic career as producer to Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson and many other music legends, 78-year-old Quincy Jones refuses to slow down and has just signed up for a new project in the Arab world. more info

The Telegraph — Wynton Marsalis, Willie Nelson and Norah Jones in classy tribute to Ray Charles. Rating * * * * more info

KEXP Seattle — 44-year-old Charles Ray Wiggins, better known by his stage name Raphael Saadiq, has spent his life bearing the standard of old-school R&B, producing such artists as D’Angelo, Mary J. Blige, and John Legend before venturing into his own with his 200... more info

Topix — John Coltrane, Ray Charles celebrated as part of 'Impulse! Nights' at the Jazz Standard. more info

Guardian Music — Bootsy Collins is one of the last men standing from the wild early days of funk. He tells Rob Fitzpatrick about his misadventures in LSD and orgies – and why Hendrix is still GodIf you have ever suspected that, just perhaps, modern popular music ha... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — An inherited copy, on wax, of Ray Charles’ Live In Concert has been in my regular rotation for years. Last month I read (via the LA Times) that the classic set was finally seeing a CD release. The following bit further grabbed my attention: “The ... more info

Detroit Free Press — The patriarch of the Detroit jazz scene — “the epitome of soul and taste,” according to Wynton Marsalis — settled in Detroit in 1963 after five years with the Ray Charles band. His world-class musicianship, charisma, swing and commitment to m... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Two years after the Red Headed Stranger and one of the prime purveyors and chief defenders of New Orleans culture collaborated in 2007 at New York’s Lincoln Center for “Two Men With the Blues,” Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis reconvened... more info

Pop Crunch — A woman who claims to have been the mistress of late music legend Ray Charles for more than 20 years has revealed that she secretly aborted his baby and even [...] more info