Guardian Music — Who better to offer a guide to the best of this year's London jazz festival than the stars themselvesCleo Laine, singerChick Corea's gig with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (15 Nov) also on the bill would be a big one for me. We heard Bela by accident... more info

Rock Sellout —   The first time I heard Pelican was a swap out of music with fellow contributor Erik. I have always been a fan of instrumental bands such as Mogwai and Totoise, I have even been known to have a heavy collection of Miles Davis albums. I loved the... more info

All About Jazz — For the new segment of our adventure in letting bassists be our guides, author, critic and sometime Rifftides commentator Larry Kart has a fine idea. May I suggest, for Part 4, Paul Chambers behind Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly and Jimmy ... more info

All About Jazz — Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever - A Book Reading and Signing with Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University) and Salim Washington (Brooklyn College) Professors Griffin and Washin... more info

Guardian Music — Emerging from the shadow of his hero Charlie Parker, Miles Davis rejected the aggressive tempos of bebop to pioneer a new style that became a landmark in jazz evolutionMiles Davis, the dentist's son from St Louis who came to New York in 1944 to study... more info

All About Jazz — NPR: Wilson is "One of the Finest Saxophonists in the Business" JAZZIZ: "An Especially Skilled and Sensitive Jazz Saxophonist" Acclaimed saxophonist Steve Wilson shifts from sideman to center-stage in the months ahead, with a series of events ce... more info

Guardian Music — Charlie Parker's final collaboration, featuring bebop's biggest stars, is one of the greatest recorded live shows in jazzIn this series on the fast-changing, 100-year-old history of jazz, the alto saxophone genius Charlie Parker has featured to an ex... more info

MTV.com News — The comedy icon made pie-in-the-face gag a pop-culture phenomenon.By Gil Kaufman Soupy Sales in 2001 Photo: Scott Gries/ Getty Images It was a simple gag, but one that made Soupy Sales a household name: a pie in the face, or 20,000 pies, t... more info

Detroit Free Press — Best known for conquering the pop and R&B charts in the 1970s with such hits as "Give Me the Night," "On Broadway" and "This Masquerade," guitarist and vocalist George Benson started his career firmly planted in the world of jazz while working with ... more info

All About Jazz — Up until 1952, Jimmy Heath's instrument was the alto saxophone. A fast study, Jimmy sounded almost identical to Charlie Parker, earning him the nickname "Little Bird." But the novelty of mimicking Parker soon wore thin, especially as the tenor saxoph... more info