Mar 21, 2002 5:59 AM

BMG’s adult music division, The RCA Victor Group, has signed the contemporary instrumental supergroup Fourplay to the…

Mar 21, 2002 5:57 AM

Guitarist Wayne Krantz, a former sideman with Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham and others, has scheduled a…

Mar 12, 2002 9:45 AM

From March 19-24, the Jazz Composers Collective will hold its annual jazz festival in New York at the newly reopened…

Mar 12, 2002 9:35 AM

From 1969 until 1983—with the exception of a three-year hiatus from 1979-81—the northern Italian city of Bergamo…

Mar 11, 2002 10:26 AM

The sophomore Blue Note release for the band Soulive, Next, is set for a March 12 release. The group’s Blue Note…

Mar 6, 2002 12:29 PM

Aretha Franklin, Sonny Rollins, Dianne Reeves, Dr. John, and jazz festival favorites such as Medeski Martin & Wood,…

Mar 6, 2002 12:27 PM

Singer Judo Silvano has announced a vocal jazz series in March and April, with four concerts on various Fridays at New…

Mar 5, 2002 12:12 PM

Telarc has released Junior Wells’ Come On In This House, the bluesman’s final studio recording before his death in…

Mar 5, 2002 12:06 PM

The band Vital Information (Steve Smith, drums; keyboardist Tom Coster; guitarist Frank Gambale; and bassist Baron…

Mar 1, 2002 10:13 AM

The lineup for the 2002 Playboy Jazz Festival has been released, and the stars of the 24th annual festival at Los…