Concert, recorded at MIDEM in 1983, features King’s classic songs NEW YORK, N.Y. — As part of Acrobat Music’s U.S. label launch, B.B. King’s B.B. King and His Orchestra Live will be released October 21, 2008, marking the recording’s first availability in the U.S. The album was recorded in January 1983 in Cannes during the international music industry gathering known as MIDEM. The concert, sponsored by Kool, was held at the Palais des Congres, where King shared the stage with Dave Brubeck Quartet and Pat Matheny...

LIVE IN CONCERT @ GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY NYC SEPTEMBER 9 2008 at 9 pm / no cover Sten Hostfalt - guitar Blaise Siwula - saxophones/clarinet " Siwula is a Mainstay Of The N Y C Free- Improv scene . . We're Impressed With Hostfalt's Fast Fingers and Intense Focus " TIME OUT NEW YORK ( ' 08 ) 1087 Broadw...

Guitarist Lionel Loueke from Benin and bassist/singer Richard Bona from Cameroon each a virtuoso instrumentalist whose fluency in the folkloric music of their homelands and contemporary jazz vocabulary make them major forces on both the New York and world jazz scenes. Tickets are on sale now at www...

Learn about jazz from the musicians who make it and the scholars who study it though Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Swing University” program this fall. The program offers the opportunity to hear your favorite music anew as professionals such as Phil Schaap and Lewis Nash share their insights, expertise and tall tales. The program offers several different types of classes, which are held once a week in 4 and 8 week sessions, and is a great way to expand your knowledge of jazz music...

Comcast on Thursday appealed the Federal Communication Commission's order that it stop its controversial practice of throttling file sharing traffic. On Aug. 1, FCC commissioners concluded on a 3-2 vote that Comcast monitored the content of its customers' internet connections and selectively blocked peer-to-peer connections using the BitTorrent protocol. The commission found that Comcast violated so-called rules of net neutrality...

Pop-influenced contemporary Jazz vocalist Jimmy Demers is set to make his Concord Records debut on September 23rd with Dream A Little – a collection of 13 classic songs that have already garnered praise from the likes of legendary songwriter Diane Warren and Grammy award winning arranger Victo...

It was five years ago Monday the Recording Industry Association of America began its massive litigation campaign that now includes more than 30,000 lawsuits targeting alleged copyright scofflaws on peer-to-peer networks. The targets include the elderly, students, children and even the dead. No one in the U.S. who uses Kazaa, Limewire or other file sharing networks is immune from the RIAA's investigators, and fines under the Copyright Act go up to $150,000 per purloined music track...

Swedish-born musician Anders Holst delivers a unique combination of smooth instrumentals and heartfelt lyrics on Five. Holst, who co-wrote and co-produced four of these five songs, has been dubbed the Sting of Stockholm, most likely for his comparable vocal delivery. But Holst also shares Sting's pe...

Described as rhythmic, infectious, and ‘feel good’ music, the performance by Jesse Boykins III and The Beauty Created includes Jeremy Most on guitar, Earl Travis on bass, Kenneth Whalum III on tenor sax, Saunder Sermons on trombone, Marion Ross III on trumpet, and Ethan Goldbourne on keys...

The free seven-hour Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival brings a high-quality parade of performers on Saturday to either the Riverfront Amphitheatre or the Palace Theatre (19 Clinton Ave., at N. Pearl St., Albany), depending on another parade — of tropical storms or hurricanes. Visit albanyevents.org for an update on Saturday morning...

AHLEUCHATISTAS September 9 - The Grey Eagle - Asheville, North Carolina September 13 - Black Cat - Boone, North Carolina Friday, October 24th - Hunter Gatherer - Columbia, SC Saturday, October 25th - MACA - Marion, NC Saturday, November 1st - New French Bar - Asheville, NC at New French Bar (with The Usaisamonster)...

Roy Hargrove Earfood (Emarcy) David Sanborn Here And Gone (Decca) Cedar Walton Seasoned Wood (HighNote) Don Braden Gentle Storm (HighNote) Bob Mintzer Big Band Swing Out (MCG Jazz) Cassandra Wilson Loverly (Blue Note) S.M.V. Thunder (Heads Up) Ahmad Jamal It’s Magic (Dreyfus) Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema (Blue Note)...

The AAJ Upcoming Jazz Release Center has just been updated with 244 new releases, reissues, imports and DVDs...

MONTREAL -- Consider Satoko Fujii something of a late bloomer. Even though she started playing piano at the age of 4, she didn't realize that improvisation was her calling until she was 20, and she didn't start recording as a jazz musician until 1996, when she was in her late 30s. Since then, however, the 49-year-old pianist and composer has made up for lost time. She has more than 50 titles in her discography, offering everything from solo sessions and duets to big band and rock albums...

The Guelph Jazz Festival, which focuses on innovative and creative improvisation, runs in Guelph, Ont., from Sept. 3 to 7, with concerts, workshops and symposiums. Here are some of this year's highlights. Sept. 3: DJ Spooky and Vijay Iyer. A collaboration between one of New York's most adventurous turntablists and one of jazz's most promising young pianists and composers. 8 p.m. at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre...

Jazz legends, Chick Corea and John McLaughlin, will give a concert in Turkish capital Ankara next month as part of their European tour that reunited the artists after 30 years since they played with Miles Davis in the 1970s...

Never underestimate Jimi Hendrix's influence on jazz music, on both sides of the Atlantic. Take Acoustic Ladyland: the London post-jazz darlings started out doing Hendrix covers (hence the name). They've broadened their palette quite a bit since then, not least their keys player Tom Cawley. His second album with side project Curios, Closer (Impure), shows off his improvising skills to dazzling effect, especially on the intricately dynamic Bradford, named for fellow pianist Brad Mehldau. There's great interplay with bassist Sam Burgess and drummer Joshua Blackmore, too - no wonder they picked up the Best Band accolade at the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards...

The Newcastle Jazz Festival was held at the Town Hall at Newcastle NSW on the 30th, 31st August and 1st September. The line up of bands and artists were: Lee Gunness, Paul Griffith Orchestra and Quintet, Cary Bennett and Swingout, Hendo’s Early Roots, Dan and Howler Strictly Swingin’, Trevor Furner Unsafe Sax, Daryl Aberhart Trio, Ben Jones Quartet, Sally Street Trio, Geoff Bull’s Olympia Jazz Band, Al Davey’s Monstars, Dr.Don’s, Double Dose, Boots’n’ all Jazz Band, Diannia Heather Tribute to Bessie Smith, Jugalug String Band, Bob Malone (USA), Stephan Schafer Quartet, Viva the band (cabaret), Jeremy Borthwick Quartet, Howlers Cotton Club, New Orleans Ramblers, Short ‘n. Horny, Bob Barnard Quartet, Sweeny (Irish), State Summit, Monique Lysiak, Dave Longo Quartet, Gosford High School Band...

Art of Life Records is pleased to welcome guitarist Scott Sherwood and pianist Bob Rodriguez to its roster of recording artists. For their debut release on Art of Life Records, Scott and Bob have composed seven original compositions of guitar and piano duets recorded and mixed by Kent Heckman at Red Rock Recording in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania on August 30th and 31st, 2007. All tracks have been professionally mastered using 24-bit digital technology...