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Jazz musician Jerome Najee Rasheed, of Manhattan with his alto saxophone along Broadway.

A jazz concert and exhibit of renowned artist Salvador Dali's work drew large crowds to the Macedonian capital.

When bassist Stanley Clarke gathered drummer Lenny White and piano phenom Hiromi together last December to do his first-ever trio album, Jazz In The Garden , no one knew quite what to expect.

Playing before a sold-out crowd on the first of their two-night engagement at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club, the Stanley Clarke Trio got things going with "Three Wrong Notes," a straight-ahead ragtime-inspired tune.

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

Jazz, soul and funk legend George Duke , whose best-known songs have included "Sweet Baby" with Stanley Clarke and the funky "Dukey Stick," will perform an intimate concert with his quartet at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, Calif.

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Early in his career, bass-wizard Stanley Clarke helped create the 1970s jazz-rock-funk hybrid known as "fusion." Sunday night at the Dakota jazz club, Clarke showcased his latest fusion project, a cross-cultural collaboration with Japanese piano sensation Hiromi Uehara.

Bassist Bernard Harris will headline a concert of "inspirational smooth jazz" at 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 16 at the Hilton Regency Conference Center , 400 Regency Park Drive in O'Fallon, IL.

Alain Londes is someone who loves jazz, studies the tenor sax, writes articles, teaches courses ranging from Business Ethics to Applied Professional Communications, practices public speaking and studies philosophy.

Thousands of listeners heard the unnamed producer swearing at a jazz music recording.

Three quarters of '70s jazz-rock fusion group Return to Forever a ' pianist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White a ' showed off their acoustic chops with a sizzling show at the Royal Conservatory of Music's new Koerner Hall.

Well, as it turns out, what they call "fusion" doesn't really sound like anything other than jazz if it's played minus the electricity.

Released: Feb 1976 Genre: Jazz Fusion Label: Columbia/Legacy Number Of Tracks: 6 Return To Forever was a 70's jazz fusion band consisting of some of the most impressive virtuosos of the time.

This is the tip of the concert iceberg at Koerner Hall's inaugural season: Tomorrow: Pianist Anton Kuerti joins an all-star lineup of young artists with ties to the Royal Conservatory for a concert of solo, chamber, orchestral and vocal music to open Koerner Hall.

Sunday's finale lineup at the 52th Monterey Jazz Festival had all the major players on it.

Some things were just made for each other: ham and eggs, pizza and beer, television and couches, the Blackberry and the tweet.

"... this man's a genius! playing Ellington like a bartender plays a Singapore Sling, all that maraschino cherry sweetness, a little clink of ice, and his voice doing a kind of mumble moan ..." --Matthew Dickman, "Chick Corea is Alive and Well!" One of the oldest cliches in the jazz description biz is the idea that a jazz combo in concert is having ...

O ne of the most fruitful partnerships in jazz history took root in 1971, when then-teenaged bassist Stanley Clarke was playing in a band led by saxophonist Joe Henderson.

Chick Corea is a musical omnivore. From avant-garde to bebop, from children's songs to hard-hitting fusion and frequent forays into the classical, the multiple Grammy Award-wining jazz artist has touched an astonishing number of musical bases.