May 16, 2007 9:20 AM

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has acquired the catalog Miles Davis.

Through the agreement, UMPG will…

May 16, 2007 9:19 AM

A celebration is scheduled May 19 in Hartford, Conn., when the city will
dedicate Woodland Street between Albany Avenue…

May 14, 2007 5:52 AM

Outpost Productions; The Lensic, Santa Fe’s Performing Arts Center; and the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation have announced…

May 14, 2007 5:51 AM

May is a big month for Yoshi’s Jazz Club and Restaurant in Oakland, Calif. This month marks the 35th anniversary the…

May 14, 2007 5:49 AM

This summer’s Caramoor International Music Festival will present a seven-concert series called Sonidos Latinos, which…

May 7, 2007 9:33 AM

Clarinetist Alvin Batiste died May 6 of an apparent heart attack. He was 74.

Batiste died only hours before he was…

May 7, 2007 9:33 AM

Blues harmonica player Carey Bell died May 6 of heart failure in Chicago. He was 70.

Bell was a veteran of both Muddy…

May 7, 2007 9:32 AM

The program of this summer’s Blue Note Records Festival in Ghent, Belgium, has been announced.

Artists scheduled to…

May 4, 2007 9:00 AM

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Millennium Park will present this summer the second year of the…

May 4, 2007 8:59 AM

Improvised and creative new musics have been on the upswing in recent
years, but listeners, critics and scholars have…