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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.

Mark Turner joins Brad Mehldau's rhythm section to kick off Saxophone Week. Prague has several good, centrally located jazz clubs, but their schedules are generally indistinguishable.

JAZZ STANDARD Swings Into October with Return Visits from Saxophonist Joshua Redman and the 7th Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation's premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in October.

All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today! Brad Mehldau Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s.

Concord Music Group Grammy-winning bassist John Patitucci's trio recording Remembrance , a heartfelt ode to his heroes and mentors, is the realization of a longstanding dream.

This record is reminiscent of Miles Davis ' Kind of Blue -not historic, like that legendary record, which set modal jazz in motion-but very likely similar to that session, that must surely have been charged with near-ceaselessly flowing ideas.

This record is reminiscent of Miles Davis ' Kind of Blue -not historic, like that legendary record, which set modal jazz in motion-but very likely similar to that session, that must surely have been charged with near-ceaselessly flowing ideas.

Founded in 1973 under the leadership of Dr. Nejat F. Eczacibasi, the Istanbul Jazz Festival, held this year at various venues all over the city from July 2-16, was a celebration of jazz and other styles of music in one of the world's most historic and beautiful cities.