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One of the UK's most forward thinking record labels and stores, Soul Jazz have just release this amazing collection of album sleeves of the deepest and weirdestA jazz music ever, compiled by legendary DJs and record label founders Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker .

A member of the stellar young jazz group called The Story , Amsterdam/New York saxophonist, Lars Dietrich delivers this fine debut which displays his acumen as a leader and composer.

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.

Manhattan Transfer has barely let the dust settle from its last trip to the region.

When the band NOMO formed in Ann Arbor in 2003 - while several of the group members were still students at the University of Michigan 's school of jazz - they already knew that they didn't want to hew to a strict jazz idiom, like be-bop or traditional jazz.

The Recording Academy in the United States announced its newest additions to the Grammy Hall of Fame on November 25, adding 25 singles and albums to a list that now includes 851 titles.

California Girls by the Beach Boys has become one of 25 new songs to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Sunday night is a good night for something from one of the greatest trumpet players who ever lived .

A widely respected studio musician, Steve Gadd sets out to prove he himself as a solo artist.

By Jim Gilchrist FOUR decades haven't diminished the rich four-part harmonies and sheer verve of The Manhattan Transfer, as audiences will discover tomorrow night when the group play the only UK gig of their current European tour at Perth Concert Hall.

But that momentous year also marks the debut release from ECM Records, a label that arguably defined the jazz category in the '70s, forging an identity built on artistic purposefulness, impeccable musicianship, distinctive graphics and crisp and cleanly recorded sound.

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

When most artists reach the age of 76, they tend to lower their aims. Riding on the coattails of their creative heyday is an easy way out for many older musicians.

For saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, making music goes far beyond putting notes together to create pleasing sounds.

"I am the son of Spanish immigrants that left behind fascism in the 50's to start a new life in Australian democracy.

Earl Klugh and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra presented "A Taste of Smooth Jazz" last night in the Southern Theatre, and it was an outstanding musical feast.

FOR a band that only made it to the venue 20 minutes before they played their first note, Kyle Eastwood and his crew were impressively cool a ' you'd never think that they only just made it on stage after a last-minute dash from the railway station.

Peter Erskine, Alan Pasqua and Darek Oles Play in Red Carpet Jazz Series Upstairs at Vitello's Studio City Peter plays with his current band with Alan Pasqua and Darek Oles.

Refreshing in its mix of Western jazz fusion with traditional Indonesian folk rhythms and metal drumming, simakDialog create music that stays with you.

Dropping like a bomb on some of the blah musical offerings of her contemporaries, Haunted was one of the best albums of 2000, obliterating the competition.