ContactMusic — Veteran musician Herbie Hancock is set to launch a new initiative to celebrate jazz across the globe with a star-studded concert series featuring Morgan Freeman Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas The legendary pianist who is a Goodwill Ambassador for... more info

Guardian Music — (Jazz Village)His third studio album provides confirmation that the 36-year-old Cuban pianist is one of the most gifted, adventurous spirits of his generation. A lyrical approach recalling Herbie Hancock and Abdullah Ibrahim persists, but Yo also ex... more info

Detroit Free Press — While there is no single answer to the question of what's happening in jazz right now, the Robert Glasper Experiment is a pretty good place to start. At 33, Glasper, a Houston-born pianist, marries the sophisticated melodic-harmonic language and... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonPanamanian-American drummer Cobham came to prominence in Miles Davis's groundbreaking early 70s outfits and, like fellow Miles alumni Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and John McLaughlin, he's spent the last four decades exploring ... more info

Detroit Free Press — Now here's a great idea: Inventive Detroit pianist, composer and arranger Scott Gwinnell has been digging deep into music by Herbie Hancock and will premiere his new arrangements with his 10-piece group tonight at the Jazz Café at Music Hall. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — White Hills at Terminal 5 (more by BBG) White Hills will welcome their previously mentioned new LP Frying on this Rock on March 20th via Thrill Jockey. It was recorded by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Brian Eno, Swans, Herbie Hancock,... more info

Guardian Music — Actor says his long anticipated film will be a 'cubist' take on the jazz legend's later life and not a conventional biopicAlmost two years after it was announced that Don Cheadle would direct a film about Miles Davis, taking the lead role himself, th... more info

Guardian Music — (Emarcy)French multi-reeds virtuoso Michel Portal, a dance-band player who became a contemporary-classical soloist, then a jazz composer and improviser for over a half-century in music, is also a London jazz festival guest on 14 November. Bailador re... more info

Guardian Music — People music somehow manages to express an entire decade in seven short minutes of syncopated grooving, sweet melody, angry stabs of funk and then glorious noise People Music was the first tune I properly listened to after my illness. Not the first t... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM)There's probably some arcane formula that proves the presence of trumpeter Enrico Rava, trombonist Gianlucca Petrella and young pianist Giovanni Guidi on the same session equals five stars. Petrella and Guidi made the fine We Don't Live Here Any... more info