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The fusion group of Wolfgang Netzer and Ranajit Sengupta in performance on Wednesday.

Back when people still sold CDs, Norah Jones and 50 Cent sold a lot of them. The diametrically opposed artists - she's the preternaturally pleasant soy-latte queen, he's the pathologically belligerent VitaminWater gangsta - each have a new album out today.

Pop/rock, contemporary jazz vocalist and pianist Norah Jones scored her first #1 Billboard hit with her debut Come Away With Me in 2002 and along with that impressive success five Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year.

Prepare your senses for a creative feast as artists from all corners of the world collide at the New Zealand Arts Festival.

New Zealand International Arts Festival The New Zealand International Arts Festival has launched its programme for 2010.

Controversial science and religion writer Richard Dawkins will feature in the New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington next year.

It was inevitable that the second son of musicians John and Alice Coltrane would become a star in his own right.

At a party last Sunday at the Dakota, for which club owner Lowell Pickett flew in New Orleans clarinetist Evan Christopher , we got a sneak peek of the plans for the club's 25th anniversary year.

Pakhawaj maestro Pandit Bhavani Shankar on his long innings and the way ahead. It is the duty of the musician to keep the purity of classicism and yet appeal to the very soul of listeners.

Shankar plays with his luminously talented protA©gA© and daughter Anoushka at the Arlington on Sunday.

Martin Longley also currently writes for the BBC Music, Brooklyn Vegan, Spannered and Stirrer websites, The Wire and Jazzwise magazines, and the Coventry Telegraph newspaper.

Singer Shankar Mahadevan and the Two Tulips band will coach Mumbaikars dropping into Phoenix Mills today, on how to belt out their best yodel for an audience of millions The Swiss invented it in the Alps.

Sitar master Ravi Shankar performs at Hill Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 15 with daughter Anoushka.

12, 2009. Visit www.vafest.com or the festival box office at MacArthur Center in Norfolk or call 282-2822. Single tickets are due to go on sale Feb.

Geoffrey has honed a musical approach that walks a knife-edge between the singer-songwriter and ambient club or world fusion approach to music making.

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After Herbie Hancock won the 2008 album of the year Grammy Award for "River: The Joni Letters," he did what anyone would do following a tremendous professional accomplishment: He sat down to watch TV.

Note: This show has been cancelled. As part of the Hawaii Writers Conference, the first annual Writers Block Gala will have Geethali Shankar perform a private gig.

Usually, when there is an event at the Watermill Center, the center itself and the event divide the attention, especially if someone with the stature of Norah Jones is involved.

Herbie Hancock has grand plans for his new position as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair for jazz.