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Brilliant sunlight and turning leaves combine for a beautiful show along a trail at Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National Park.

Michael Story is a professional acoustic and electric bassist, band leader and composer from Melbourne.

One of the fondest notions in jazz is that time is irrelevant. Everyones trying to get over the fixities of the clock to find the magic chutes of improvisational freedom, where you can slip into the breaks, as Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man, and look around.

Pianist Brad Mehldau got flak for naming a series of discs "The Art of the Trio." But it really is an art, and no more so than when the lead instrument is not a piano, or any member of the keyboard family.

While nominally a classical performer, you don't have to stretch to hear a strong jazz influence in pianist Christopher O'Riley's interpretations of modern rock tunes.

The carols around the National Christmas Tree are going to have some serious star power this year.

The carols around the U.S. National Christmas Tree are going to have some serious star power this year.

Classical music and jazz are often perceived as two radically different art forms that cannot be merged.

IT WAS pandemonium. Or as close to that condition as the louche world of jazz can get in the mid-afternoon. With the sun still high in the Dublin sky, one day back in May 2000 when we were all still young and innocent, actual queues formed outside Vicar Street for a matinee performance by American pianist Brad Mehldau and his trio.

This week, our video spotlight shines on The Wee Trio , who will be in St. Louis next week to perform Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17 at Jazz at the Bistro .

Joe Martin , Not By Chance . Martin is a versatile and rounded bassist who has collaborated with a wide range of musicians at the heart of the 30-something generation of jazz players in New York.

There seems to be no end of bassists-leaders and this month, we see new albums from five of them, some established, others just getting their end pins wet.

With Perpetuum , Dutch pianist Edwin Berg and his band mates enter an increasingly crowded field: to wit, piano trios that seem, consciously or otherwise, to worship at the shrine of Brad Mehldau .

We've been elated to see such a wide response to our Jazz Now series, where we and our guest contributors recommend starter albums for getting into today's jazz.

Earlier this year, Take Five presented " The First Five: One Man's Introduction To Jazz ." That feature saw NPR Arts editor Tom Cole talking about his personal introduction to the art.

Anzic Records to Release "Project A" from Saxophonist Joel Frahm + Hammond B3 Player/Pianist Bruce Katz "Katz is a killer on the B3" --Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes "Joel Frahm, one of the young band leaders often heard in New York's small jazz clubs, sounds supremely comfortable playing the tenor saxophone." --Ben Ratliff, The New York Times Available ...

The Joe Martin Quartet - Live at The Jazz Standard in NYC - October 7 + 8 with Mark Turner, Brad Mehldau + Marcus Gilmore "Joe is one of the heavy bass players" --Kurt Rosenwinkel "...a versatile bassist and a thoughtful composer" --The New York Times "...a rock solid player" --The San Jose Mercury News If you are a jazz artist on the current New ...

He's not about to have photos of Brad Mehldau or Aaron Goldberg put on a milk carton, but Joshua Redman says he misses pianists.

If I played video games, Ia d play a oeThe Beatles: Rock Band,a released earlier this week on what is now being called International Beatles Day: 9/9/09. Somehow their songs never age and never reach the maximum number of plays .

Two of jazz's biggest trailblazers have just made clear where the music's modern mainstream is heading.