Mercury News, California — For much of the Jazz On the Plazz audience, the Terence Blanchard Quintet's music was not quite as interesting as their picnics, smart phones and conversations with friends. more info

Mercury News, California — Here are five facts about trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who is touring the Bay Area this week with his quintet: He was born, raised and still lives in New Orleans. more info

Mercury News, California — Terence Blanchard, who plays Los Gatos, San Francisco and Santa Cruz in August with his quintet, is typical of the wealth of choices. more info

Guardian Music — The Kills, ManchesterNow that the White Stripes are sadly no more, the Kills – whose singer Alison Mosshart also appears with Jack White in the Dead Weather – have succeeded them as the world's premier scuzz-rock duo who used to sleep together bu... more info

Guardian Music — PJ Harvey, LondonThough at times she's had a strangely mid-Atlantic kind of persona (part queen of the Delta blues, part farmer's wife), recently Polly Harvey has focused her attention closer to home. Her 2007 album White Chalk found her haunting Bri... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In one of the festival's boldest choices, the Philadelphia hip-hop band the Roots will team with trumpeter Terence Blanchard as one of the weekend's co-headliners. In one of the festival's boldest choices, the Philadelphia hip-hop band the Roots will... more info

All About Jazz — "Plenty of forward-thinking jazz pianists have been painted with a modern-classical brush, but few have approached improvisation armed with the manual vocabularies demanded by Cage, Ligeti and the like with the same diligence and flair as Parisian ke... more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, LondonIf Robert Glasper, the young Texan pianist, had been commissioned to nail in an hour what the London jazz festival's all about, he could hardly have done a better job than his Barbican appearance. The hip-hop-savvy and improvisa... more info