Portland, Oregon - At the Portland Jazz Festival between concerts and after hours, much of the talk among musicians is about the death of {{Gerry Niewood = 9878}}. The saxophonist was one of 50 people who died in a plane crash Thursday night near Buffalo, New York. He and guitarist Coleman Mellett were on their way to Buffalo to perform with Chuck Mangione's band. Mellett was also killed in the crash...

The performance of Haydn’s oratorio “Die Schöpfung” (“The Creation”), by participants of the Weill Music Institute’s latest workshop, was utterly inspired.

Paul Simon’s show was the inaugural performance at the newly renovated Beacon Theater.

The arrival of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in China seemed like an event that should have taken place long ago.

This concert resented two compositions and one improvisation, all related to feedback.

New releases from Morrissey, Ryan Leslie and Thursday.

Jorma Kaukonen has left the psychedelic '60s behind him. “The ’60s were a long time ago,” Kaukonen says. “You just can’t go backward. The arrow of time only goes in one direction.” Kaukonen has a new album, River of Time Even though his guitar helped Jefferson Airplane soar with the San Francisco Sound on hits such as “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love,” Jorma Kaukonen is not sentimental about the psychedelic ’60s...

Have you had enough of Valentine's Day? Is there too much chocolate and alcohol still stuck in your head? Let us help you clear out your romantic cobwebs. From the cathartic noise of The Drones (pictured) to the crunchy hypnotics of Pontiak to the lonely, reissued machine music of Dntel and more, our new playlist takes lethal aim at your post-coital hangover. Don't kill the messenger...

The Grammy winner performs selections from his new album on piano with his jazz- chamber ensemble...

Rita Moreno The Puerto Rican singer/actress is one of scant few to win a Grammy, A Tony, an Oscar and an Emmy. Moreno comes to the Conga Room Thursday where her talent will fill the room...

The ninth annual festival promises to be a Valentine's weekend celebration of the Great American Songbook. Through Sunday at the Marriott Newport Beach...

{{Joris Teepe = 3057}} Quintet with Scott Wenthold (tp), Mark Gross (sx), {{George Colligan = 12084}} (p), Rudy Royston (dr) Place: Fat Cat 75 Christopher Street NYC Date/Time: March 20, 10 PM Cover: $3...

The 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival was an amazing time for the almost 100,000 music fans in range of the speakers from the six stages there. Since the first Bonnaroo Music Festival back in 2002, live music photographer David Oppenheimer has photographed some of each summers' musical highlights as all-star musicians from many genres graced Bonnaroo's stages...

All About Jazz is celebrating Dena DeRose's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Dena DeRoseDena and her trio (Martin Wind on bass and Matt Wilson on drums) have developed a hard-swinging and dynamic sound that audiences crave, and have accumulated a list of performance credits that proves it. From the legendary Blue Note... more...

Stuart Oderman has been providing musical accompaniment for silent films at libraries and museums for decades.

The Lighthouse Singers is a Gospel group with an undeniable passion for James Brown and Al Green. Although its songs convey strong faith-based messages, even non-believers can appreciate and become awestruck at the vocal power and super-slick chemistry of this eight-man musical ministry. The soulful harmony of "Smooth Sailing" is intoxicating by itself; there is something so pure and cleansing about deep, passionate singing untouched by studio hands. "Smooth Sailing" directs listeners to a spiritual path, but there is nothing preachy or heavy-handed about the vocal performances here. Instead, there is unrestrained joy and life-affirming energy. The wonderfully slow-burning "Depending On You" delivers one of the record's few moments of respite. The Lighthouse Singers gets its groove on throughout much of the album, which is actually a recording of one of its explosive gigs. "Down So Long" is relentlessly funky with pumping organ; it recalls the vibrant R&b of the '60s and '70s. "great things for me" continues that danceable momentum. however, the lighthouse singers is not writing about love or sex; it aims for higher ground, which is communicating--and celebrating--the teachings of Jesus Christ through the universal languages of jazz and soul...

A dark vision of the world and this time is, perhaps, the most accurate one today. So when an account of artists' contributions to raising the world's level of awareness is written, bassist Roberto Occhipinti's fine A Bend in the River will rank as one with the clearest reflection of that vision. Of course none of this means that the record is not infinitely enjoyable. It is played in a continuously evolving idiom and, indeed, reveals something fascinatingly new with every listen...

It might seem that King Crimson co-founder/guitarist Robert Fripp's mail order-only King Crimson Collectors Club (KCCC)--an ongoing series of live performances in either CD or download-only formats-- might be overkill. But for the committed Crimhead, "enough" and "King Crimson" don't belong in the same sentence. Fearlessly and perennially looking forward with each new incarnation and taking risks each and every night, some shows are undeniably better than others. But every show made available has something distinctive to offer the committed fan. KCCC #39: Live in Milan June 20, 2003 captures the last commercially recorded incarnation early into its final European tour before Warr touch guitarist Trey Gunn's departure and, while it may have a few more warts than other KCCC recordings, they only serve to make Crimson more human...

Samo Salamon is an adventurer in more ways than one. As a guitar player he is constantly in search of the new, finding it in unexpected harmonic concepts and in the development and fulfillment of the themes. He also chooses to play with different musicians on his recordings, thus opening the doors to a fresh world of ideas...