Guardian Music — (Columbia/Legacy) In the jazz legend's 90th year, the box-set tributes are stacking up – but this double album, programmed by Brubeck himself, might be the most invitingly varied, featuring material recorded between 1954 and 1970, vocal collaborati... more info

All About Jazz — From a concert in Stuttgart, Germany. Louis Armstrong on trumpet and vocals, Trummy Young on trombone, Peanuts Hucko on clarinet, Billy Kyle on piano, Mort Herbert on bass, and Danny Barcelona on drums... more info

Guardian Music — A cover version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, by a ukulele-playing, morbidly obese Hawaiian called Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, has become an unlikely multimillion-seller hitFor the past eight weeks, the biggest-selling song in Germany has been a cover ve... more info

All About Jazz — Brad Goode, Tight Like This (Delmark). During his Chicago days, Goode worked through his influences, notably Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, into early individuality. He has a Gillespie moment during his muted solo on the exotic 1942 Xavier Cugat... more info

Guardian Music — Alex Ross's follow-up to The Rest is Noise delights in blurring the lines between pop, classical and jazzThe title of Alex Ross's book – a collection essays that supplements The Rest is Noise, his superb history of music in the 20th century – rea... more info

Guardian Music — Southbank Centre, LondonIt's part of the paradox (and charm) of jazz that its older practitioners can seem more radical than its young lions. College-schooled prodigies feel obliged to honour and recreate its great traditions before they attempt to s... more info

All About Jazz — m: Louis Armstrong used to sign his letters, "Red Beans and Ricely Yours" and gave his jazz compositions titles like "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" and "Cornet Chop Suey." This week Riverwalk Jazz cooks up a banquet for those who like their music hot... more info

Unreality Music — In recent years, it's no mystery that the R&B genre has taken quite a decline in active artists confirming to it. I'm talking about releasing true rhythm and blues, smoothly-crooned love songs... more info

All About Jazz — Columbus, OH—The Jazz Arts Group's 2010-2011 Swingin' at the Southern series continues December 1-5 with Home for the Holidays, featuring a return engagement with vocalist Carmen Bradford for the annual holiday spectacular. Ms. Bradford was feat... more info

All About Jazz — Maxim Micheliov is part of a robust Jazz advocacy community in Vilnius Lithuania that comes highly recommended by friends who have performed there. Max with Roy Campbell jr. 1. Describe your discovery of music. "The sounds of music have always bee... more info