Nov 14, 2006 10:14 AM

Jazz at Lincoln Center is expanding its Essentially Ellington high school jazz band program. The program now has…

Nov 14, 2006 10:04 AM

A 90-minute documentary about composer Billy Strayhorn will debut on Feb. 6, 2007. Entitled Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life…

Nov 14, 2006 10:00 AM

Trumpeter George “Sonny” Cohn, who played in the Count Basie Orchestra from 1960 to 1984, died on Nov. 7 in Chicago. He…

Nov 3, 2006 11:05 AM

Austria’s most prominent big band, the Vienna Art Orchestra, will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2007 with a series…

Nov 3, 2006 10:57 AM

Samuel L. Jackson, who may be best known for his role as a hit man in Pulp Fiction , will potray a fictional blues…

Nov 2, 2006 11:31 AM

Guitarist Chuck Loeb has signed to Heads Up and will release his next disc, Presence on the label on Jan. 23, 2007.…

Nov 2, 2006 11:26 AM

On Nov. 7, Riverside Records, now an imprint of the Concord Music Group, will release a compilation series of the jazz…

Oct 30, 2006 9:18 AM

Tampere, Finland, will host the 25th international Tampere Jazz Happening Nov. 2–5.

The event will begin on Nov. 2…

Oct 30, 2006 9:16 AM

Anti Records will release Tom Waits’ new album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers And Bastards, a three-disc set featuring 54…

Oct 30, 2006 9:13 AM

In The Country will release Losing Stones, Collecting Bones (Rune Grammofon), the trio’s follow-up to its 2005 debut,…