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Jazz artist Ornette Coleman, shown in his New York apartment on April 16, 2007, plays Thursday night in Montreal.

The Scott Davis Quartet and Friends bring Miles Davis' music to life in a Giants of Jazz concert on Friday at the Sylvan Theater in Greenwood Park, 45th Street and Grand Avenue.

My return visit to to Freihofer's Jazz Festival after an eight-year absence reminded me very quickly that this two-day event remains one of the summer season's great jazz lawn parties.

Today's events at the Montreal Jazz Festival. A July 6, 2009 10:08 PM A A A A MONTREAL, QUE: JULY 6, 2009 -- Trumpeter Wallace Roney plays a solo in front drummer Jimmy Cobb, a member of Miles Davis' recording band for the classic album Kind of Blue.

"TWO THOUSAND NINE IS A VERY significant year for me for several reasons," enthuses John McLaughlin.

The forecast for the Ottawa International Jazz Festival Thursday night called for overcast skies and stormy weather with brilliant flashes of tenor saxophone.

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Wonder weathers the storm Legendary singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder sings an adapted version of "I Just Called to Say I Love You" dedicated to the memory of Michael Jackson during a news conference Tuesday, June 30, 2009 in Montreal.

London band Partisans has been making the hair stand up on the back of audiences' necks with its supercharged collision of jazz and rock since 1996.

But, mandolin wizard U. Shrinivas seems to be papa's boy. Nana rushes to locate the car keys, puts the mandolin back into its case, fondly watches as his shy son poses f or the camera and serves him glasses of chilled water.

When the Montreal International Jazz Festival staged its first event some 30 years ago, co-founders Andre Menard and Alain Simard hoped it would be a "nice place of convergence" for musicians and music lovers.

The nearly ubiquitous Miles Davis notwithstanding, which jazz musician from the St.

Samantha Previte, 20, from North Brunswick, N.J., gets to meet Shia LaBeouf, co-star of the new film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," during his appearance on the NBC "Today" television program in New York Thursday, June 25, 2009.

Gary Burton, left, performs with Pat Metheny. The Gary Burton Quartet Revisited is part of the Freihofer's Jazz Festival at SPAC this weekend.

Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb has spent the last half century laying down rhythms for stars like Sarah Vaughn and Nancy Wilson, so one might expect him to tire of talking about the milestone record on which he played in 1959.

Pianist Bob Gluck 's 2007 recording Electric Brew is featured in the June 2009 issue of Keyboard magazine.

THERE won't be a birthday party with cake to mark the 20th Jazz Winnipeg Festival.

Fifty years ago, the jazz world should have belonged to Miles Davis, who released the coolest and most seductive album in its history, Kind of Blue, which also revolutionized the music with improvisations upon vaguely exotic-sounding "modal" scales .

Notes from the Net: "Miles From India" in NYC and Montreal; Elling, Bridgewater pay tribute to jazz classics, plus news, reviews, interviews & more Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St.

A woman answered the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron. "First I thought, This is the maid," says photographer Herman Leonard.