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Everything he did was so extraordinary. So much feeling with so little visible effort." BARBRA STREISAND "She is an inspiration to work with, a force of nature.

Suddenly, at the start of the 80s, there were a lot of people called "Marsalis" in jazz.

London jazz festival stars ... Marcus Miller, Zoe Rahman, Charlie Hunter and Robert Glasper.

Nio: 'very much a Californian' Carlos Nio had a change of heart around the age of 28, one that is at once thought-provoking and controversial.

Antoine Sicotte, author of the musically minded cookbook Le Cuisinier rebelle. Photograph by: Les A At home in his kitchen, scanning recipe books and planning dinner, Antoine Sicotte plays everything from Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones to Bob Marley and Balinese lounge music on his iPod, speakers perched atop the microwave.

Monster has announced fancy looking limited edition a oein-eara headphones, as a tribute to jazz monolith Miles Davis.

R.J. DeLuke is an indefatigable jazz fan and arbiter elegantiarum who aspires to ultimate hipness; also an upstate NY freelance writer for various media.

Jazz is a Romance language. It relies as much, if not more, on music already played and pondered over than that being performed right now, much less germinating in a musician's mind for the future.

The footprints of saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter are all over the jazz landscape.

The Soul of John Black is a band with a sound born of its leader's varied experiences.

SOURCE: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman Author, photographer and radio host Dennis Owsley will teach another series of jazz history classes beginning at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 5 at the Ethical Society of St.

Funk and R&B singer Betty Davis was influenced by close friends like Jimi Hendrix and her ex-husband, jazz legend Miles Davis .

The last entry in my "Fifteen Albums" series - wherein I write at length about the 15 albums that most shaped my life - was published on Aug.

Buddy Gist doesn't wear his suit anymore. He rests in a single bed at the Golden Living Center, in a hospital gown, surrounded by posters that remind him of the people he knew when he was the King of New York.

Loading... ''I thought it would be a way to get into character, into the idea.'' John Bigham, a.k.a. ''Black John'' If you go Who The Soul of John Black , part of the Attucks Theatre's 2009 Fall Discovery Music Series When 7:30 p.m. Saturday Where Attucks Theatre, 1010 Church St., Norfolk Tickets $20, 745-3000 John A. Bigham, who was composer, ...

DEBBIE Allen, 59, starred as Lydia Grant in the hit Eighties' TV series Fame. She's currently directing Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, which opens at the Novello Theatre on December 1 Mariah Carey: Butterfly I think Mariah is one of the songbirds of this millennium and the music on this album is truly inspirational.

Capt. Michael King Smith boards his F-15, which he flew as a lead pilot with the Oregon Air National Guard.

Best known for conquering the pop and R&B charts in the 1970s with such hits as "Give Me the Night," "On Broadway" and "This Masquerade," guitarist and vocalist George Benson started his career firmly planted in the world of jazz while working with legends like Jack McDuff and Miles Davis.

Few details are available, but given that they are from Monster you can expect good quality at a price that is at least a hundred dollars more than similarly speced models on the market.

This week, let's peruse some video clips of saxophonist Kenny Garrett , who will be in St.