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A plethora of jazz and blues acts will flutter down on the Garden State in November, making winter's approach easier to bear.

"Cinderella," one of the world's most enduring and beloved fairy tales - which plays through Dec.

SOURCE: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey This is the 92nd anniversary of Dizzy Gillespie's birth.

More on Soupy and the giants of jazz. Soupy Sales remembers a few of the jazz greats who appeared on 'Soupy's On.' Ella Fitzgerald, vocalist: 'Ella was wonderful.

With his new quintet, Joe Lovano takes a multicultural approach American saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano is touring with his new quintet, Us Five, and their upcoming show in Prague is the highlight of this season's Agharta Jazz Festival.

"Introducing The New 5" is a fresh post-bop debut with a classic quintet vibe. This compilation is the perfect fusion of classic and contemporary jazz.

Here's what I'm planning to play on the Jazz Connection tonight - Monday 19 October - on Radio Cardiff: Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfa a ' So Danco Samba Lokkhi Terra a ' Mela Cape Town Opera a ' Porgy & Bess Overture/Summertime Les Triaboliques a ' Gulaguajira Tinariwen a ' Tenhert Tune in at 8pm on 98.7 FM or watch and listen live online at ...

Recording artist Sylvia Brooks has starred on the stages of many of the country's most respected theatres, performing the gamut from Shakespeare to American drama, to music theatre--to sold out performances.

Concord Music Group Best known as the volatile saxophonist in bassist Moppa Elliott 's self proclaimed terrorist be-bop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Jon Irabagon has only just begun his career as a solo artist.

Just a year before his death in 1991, legendary tenor saxophonist Stan Getz told a reporter that the record he was proudest of was "Focus," his remarkable 1961 collaboration with arranger- composer Eddie Sauter in a seven-part, third-stream suite for string orchestra.

Tony Bennett has recorded duets with such contemporary artists as Bono, Tim McGraw And Christina Aguilera.

For some, the saxophone is the sound of jazz. The unique fusion of brass and woodwind that is the sax found an electrifying vibrato in the hands of jazzmen that truly changed the world.

The Deer Head Inn will host legendary drummer Glenn Davis on Sunday for his 70th birthday bash.

It had been a long road for Claude "Fiddler" Williams when I met him at Austin's Indigo's Restaurant and Bar in 1983.

Alexandra Eckhardt, a 7th-semester music education major with a jazz emphasis, performed alongside UConn Jazz Faculty professors Earl MacDonald and Bill Reynolds on Monday at 8 p.m. in Von der Mehden Recital Hall.

Vibes master Gary Burton seems more than willing to deal with a busy "retirement." "I'd doing things that I want to do, so I'm not going to complain," says the vibraphonist who has created classic recordings in his career and worked in some notable ensembles.

We've heard a lot about the closing of the Spectrum in South Philadelphia next month, but you may not realize that Wednesday is the anniversary of its opening.