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A strong competition lineup has kept audiences eager inside the halls of the Palais de Festival du Cinema, but if you want to see true movie love in action, look at the crowds just outside Cannes theater entrances.

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Women have been vitally active in jazz from its inception, nationally and internationally, making inspired contributions in both performance and composition.

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When the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was last at the Cannes Film Festival two years ago, he brought with him one of his more crowd-pleasing efforts, the Tuscan-set two-hander "Certified Copy," his first film with a movie star .

It's hard not to notice Lady Murasaki, and that's not just because of the gorgeous, six-foot-tall frontwoman, either.

Beguilingly simple, relaxed in its mastery and enhanced by Isabelle Huppert's impeccable poise, helmer-writer Hong Sangsoo's ambivalently titled "In Another Country" plays like the flipside of his Paris-set "Night and Day." While that 2008 film satirized Koreans' antics abroad, the new pic makes Huppert's "otherness" a dramatic lodestone, observing ... (more)

Some of the greatest Jazz musicians, both old and new, will take the main stage during the 33rd edition of the Montreal Jazz Festival , June 28th to July 7th.

During the recent New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, a lot of reports and information about the event were posted on Facebook, including tales of wonderful music and food experiences.

These unearthed archival recordings range from sessions made for 78s in 1940 but never released to live concert tapes to a private tape made in extremely informal circumstances.

CENTRAL TO ESPERANZA SPALDING'S BRIEF BUT BEDAZZLING career has been her flair for the unexpected.

The Smith Center's Cabaret Jazz lives up to its name this weekend with vocalist Jane Monheit, who navigates each territory with equal aplomb.

U.S. singer Liza Minelli, seen performing in Switzerland in 2011, will visit the Montreal jazz fest to perform and accept the Ella Fitzgerald Award.

Yasmin Young talks with Chantaul about moving from Germany and growing up in North Carolina trying to pursue a music career! With a blend of jazz, hip-hop, and gospel, Chantaul is set to take over the world with her silky smooth voice and radiant personality and looks.

Denver has always had a thriving jazz community, and between the 1920s and 1950s, the Five Points neighborhood was the heart of the scene.

By the fall of 1961, Ella Fitzgerald's recordings were sounding a bit processed and predictable.

Esperanza Spalding had a melody in her head. She'd been thinking about it. She'd been humming it.

The Price Tag star said there was 'too much going on' as the 21-year-old sang Ella Fitzgerald classic Cry Me A River, surrounded by groping male dancers who were seen clawing at her from behind.

Considered by many to be the 20th century's greatest female singer of jazz and American popular song, Ella Fitzgerald is one of the few singers whose work transcends generations and musical genres.

As noted yesterday, Van Alexander, 97, arranged Ella Fitzgerald's A-Tisket A-Tasket, recorded by Fitzgerald with Chick Webb's orchestra on May 2, 1938.