L.A. Times - Entertainment — Many of Hopper's Hollywood friends were in attendance, including Jack Nicholson, director David Lynch and singer Johnny Mathis. more info

All About Jazz — CHICAGO, IL - Ava Logan, "A jewel of a vocalist" as Harry Porterfield of CBS 2 Chicago calls her, returns to the Skokie Theatre, 7924 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie in an all new performance "Lena Horne And Friends" Saturday, March 20 at 8 p.m. Ava Logan,... more info

Guardian Music — American photographer whose informal shots defined the youthful glamour of the 1950s and 1960sWith his artfully informal shots of Audrey Hepburn and Chet Baker, the American photographer Bob Willoughby, who has died of cancer aged 82, defined the you... more info

All About Jazz — Ed Thigpen, Chicago-born drummer with the Oscar Peterson Trio during the famed jazz pianist's popular early-'60s period, died on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the age of seventy-nine in Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen after being ill for a long perio... more info

Guardian Music — Trumpeter, broadcaster, and leader of Jamaica's Big BandSonny Bradshaw, who has died aged 83, was one of Jamaica's best-known musical figures. A polished trumpeter who played in the style of Dizzy Gillespie, he spent six decades as a bandleader and w... more info

All About Jazz — October performance at the Los Angeles Catalina Bar and Grill. 6725 West Sunset Blvd. Hollywood California 90028 Phone: (323) 466-2210 (one block EAST of Highland Ave.) ENTRANCE on McCadden Johnny Mathis, Patti Austin, Gordon Goodwin's BIg Phat... more info

Buffalo News, New York — You have to wonder how many singers over the years quit when they heard Johnny Mathis. That weirdly beautiful voice, they must have thought, could only be a gift from God. And the way Mathis has polished it! more info

All About Jazz — An extensive collection of autographs, photographs, and other memorabilia will go up for auction at Tepper Galleries, New York's oldest private auction house. Some of these images of various actors, musicians, and celebrities are well known while ... more info

All About Jazz — I've never been a Johnny Mathis fan. Other than admiring Steven Spielberg's use of Chances Are in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and a December weakness for Sleigh Ride, Mathis has always been akin to drinking honey out of the jar. Pop heir to Na... more info

All About Jazz — Kenny Rankin, a singer, songwriter and guitarist whose easygoing style straddled the worlds of pop, jazz and folk, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 69 and lived in Los Angeles. The cause was complications of lung cancer, his family said. Singi... more info