All About Jazz — Guitarist Robben Ford's track "Indianola" from Soul on Ten (Concord Music Group, 2009) was the first MP3 at All About Jazz to top 1,000 downloads in a single day, reaching 1,216. To download more free music, visit our Free MP3 page. We currently o... more info

All About Jazz — Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street in New Haven, has announced its Fall 2009 schedule and chances are good, if you like creative music, you'll be spending as many as 13 Friday nights in the Elm City.The series opens on September 18 with guitarist/banjo pl... more info

JamBase — NPR Offering Music Samplers That Feature Bands Playing The Newport Folk And Jazz Festivals Sam Beam - Iron & Wine In the interest of providing music lovers with free music, NPR Music is currently offering two free 12-song samplers for download. ... more info

All About Jazz — Download two free MP3s from rising star Alto-saxophonist {{Rudresh Mahanthappa = 13596}}. Apti Review The story has been told before. While still in college, Indian-American saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa was given a CD of Kadri Gopalnath's Sa... more info

All About Jazz — The Montreal International Jazz Festival, one of the biggest such events in the world, will have a star-studded lineup for its July 1-12 run this year. The dozens of attractions will include Wynton Marsalis, Jeff Beck, Ornette Coleman, Jackson Bro... more info

All About Jazz — Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) Benny Golson New Time, New 'Tet (Concord) The Clayton Brothers Brother To Brother (Artist Share) Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition ... more info

Chicago Tribune — Mahanthappa, Iyer infuse playing with Eastern influences Years from now, listeners surely will marvel at one of the great partnerships in jazz: saxophonist Rud... more info

All About Jazz — Years from now, listeners surely will marvel at one of the great partnerships in jazz: saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and pianist Vijay Iyer. Each has gone a long way toward infusing the music with elements of South Indian culture. Together, they... more info

Destination Out — We’re incredibly pleased to offer this guest post by saxophonist and composer Rudresh Mahanthappa. It offers insight into Rudresh’s own art, while also serving as a terrific primer on Indian music. For those - like us - who have been curious b... more info

New York Times — The best of this year’s rock, pop and jazz albums include releases by Metallica, Bennie Maupin, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. more info