Miles Davis

LONDON: When legions of jazz buffs descend on the Swiss farming town of Willisau for its annual jazz festival, they discover the streets filled with posters dedicated to Cecil Taylor, Dexter Gordon, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, the Kronos Quartet or whoev...

Fortunately, it doesn't last. The music played by trombonist Wayne Wallace and his Rhythm Rhyme big band, consisting of some of the Bay Area's top Latin jazz artists, finally gets the fogies on their feet...

Gourmands will be following their noses to Petone this Saturday as the seaside suburb's annual fusion food festival gets under way...

A teenage Miles Davis sitting in with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie when Billy Eckstine's band played the Plantation Club. Davis, Clark Terry, Oliver Nelson and Jimmy Forrest playing St. Louis clubs with Eddie Randle's Blue Devils...

nice! everybody should own a copy of Out To Lunch . seriously. Interstellar Space is a good one too. (also good for clearing the room of unwanted guests at the end of a party....;-) ) Nice.....

A while back we looked at some of , a short but certainly not complete list of the best last recordings of some jazz greats. So, what about some of the best beginnings? Here are five of what I'd consider some of the finest debut albums in jazz...

John Zorn... Keith Jarrett... The Art Ensemble of Chicago... Derek Bailey... Three long tracks... one short.....

Whether you like it or not. You ve been through the desert on a horse with no name. Except your horse does have a name. What is it? Submitted by . Beetches...

Along with the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park and the serene hiking trails in Inwood Hill Park, the uptown Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood are home to a number of intriguing restaurants...