All About Jazz — This Monday, May 3rd, we'll present another edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on one of the most important drummers in jazz today, LENNY WHITE, while we celebrate the recent release of his l... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Oracle said... Portal of Groove just posted: Doc Severinsen - The New Sound Of Today's Big Band Command Records RS 917 SD Stereo - Vinyl - 1967 Ripped @ 320 http://portalofgroove.blogspot.com JayJay said... # Grateful Dead - Philadelphia 1989 # Mil... more info

All About Jazz — Playboy Jazz Festival Hollywood Bowl 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood The 32nd annual summer music party at the bowl returns, with performances by Chick Corea, George Benson, the Manhattan Transfer, Grammy-winning vocalist Kurt Elling, Cuban salsa gr... more info

Popdose — Joni Mitchell is a long-time member of my personal pantheon. It’s a short list of artists who I revere not just for what they produce, but for the journey that informs their work, for their willingness to live on the edge artistically, and to blur ... more info

Pitchfork — Last week, renowned New York jazz drummer Steve Reid passed away at the age of 66 from cancer. In addition to having a history of collaborations with such musical greats as Miles Davis, James Brown, and Fela Kuti, Reid also recently developed an arti... more info

Guardian Music — (High Note)As the excellent Village Voice columnist Francis Davis remarks in the insert, trumpeter Wallace Roney's rare secret – despite all his Miles Davis connections, personal and musical – lies in "confronting (Miles's) massive infl... more info

Guardian Music — If you have ever been tempted by free improvisation, says comedian Stewart Lee, Evan Parker is your gateway drugWhen I, a comedian currently fashionable in broadsheets, and an uncomprehending fan of Free Improvisation, was invited to publicise and pr... more info

Guardian Music — This brotherly jazz-metal duo could do to be a little less sweaty metal, a little more complex jazzHometown: Carbondale, Illinois.The lineup: Caleb Bird (guitar), Ashton Bird (drums).The background: We're no mathematicians, but if yesterday's four-pi... more info

All About Jazz — For music lovers who want to spend a beautiful day visiting the pioneers who've changed their lives, on Sunday, April 25, Friends of Woodlawn offers a walking tour of the final resting places of the Jazz Greats of Woodlawn Cemetery. From the dawn of... more info

All About Jazz — The fifth annual Miles Davis Festival will be held starting at 12:00 p.m. Saturday, August 14, at the Commons at Lewis and Clark Community College, 5800 Godfrey Road in Godfrey, IL.Saxophonist Michael Anthony Fitzgerald and guitarist Brian White retu... more info