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These days everybody seems to be releasing CDs, and the market is flooded with new material almost every day.This CD, however, is well worth adding to your collection.

Ottawa's annual jazz fest presents its most recognizable lineup in years. The result? Record sales.

Jazz music festivals are held around the year in all parts of the world. The festivals bring alive the moving, entertaining and empowering songs played on the radio.

November 2007 departure on Holland America Westerdam cruise ship features straight-ahead jazz stars Ken Peplowski, Cyrus Chestnut, Dizzy Gillespie Big Band live

He has composed many memorable songs. His work with the late great Art Farmer is hailed by critics. Now Benny Golson has a new start with a new jazztet..

It seems like Roy Haynes has been around forever, maybe he has. He was there at the beginning of Bop and worked with innovators like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

Bobbi Humphrey is known as the first lady of the flute, by both critics and lovers of her music, and her sound is still as important and dynamic as it ever was.

Charlie Parker, the alto saxophone player, wrote "Ornithology," "Scrapple from the Apple" and other classics. He played with Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.

Elizabeth Shepherd released her latest CD Parkdale mid year and it soon had her growing legion of fans buzzing. It was her third disc for the indie label Do Right Music.

'The First Lady of Song' is known for her sweet jazz and sultry ballads, peerless vocal technique and wide vocal range.

If there is one musician within the jazz genre that any fan should know, it's Miles Davis. Very few other musicians have so influenced a single genre and multiple genres

With the death, aged 84, of baritone saxophonist Cecil Payne, on 30 November 2007, the jazz world has lost one of its most respected and creative players and composers.

The broad term "latin jazz" encompasses many subgenres of music from several countries, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil.

Toronto's Massey Hall, built expressly for orchestral and choral performances, opened June 14, 1894 and earned a unique place in history.

The side stages rocked at the 2009 George Wein CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival 55 as Vandermark 5 and the North Carolina Central Big Band played to enthusiastic crowds.

Scat is a way of singing the melody of a song without using the words, and It's a lot of fun for adults to do with kids. Here's a way to get started.

The music of Miles Davis encapsulated the many sides of his prodigious talent with that familiar provocative "Me-ness" that always identified his work instantly.

Hazel Scott was born in Trinidad, grew up in the US. She mesmerized audiences with her piano skills, married a congressman and ended up on Joe McCarthy's blacklist.

Over its' many years of existence, Massey hall, Toronto's world renown house of culture has played host to many great jazz performances

A sax man who played with everyone who was anyone during jazz's golden age discusses playing styles and contemporaries Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Giliepie.

Miles Davis recorded many masterpieces aside from Kind of Blue. However, it remains as the largest selling jazz album of all time.

From the 1940s to the present, urban music has creatively changed during each decade. The artists managed to find innovative ways to update the music.

Who were Disney's Nine Old Men? I run down the careers of the influential animators. This installment honours Ward Kimball (March 4, 1914 - July 8, 2002).

Pete Seeger has been a pivotal voice in American and World politics for 70 years. But does he deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for it?

Toronto Downtown Jazz continues to program excellent choices, local and international, for the summer festival that brings great performances to the eager jazz public

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been mystifying music lovers with his jazzy classical trumpet playing for decades.

He is the only surviving member of the Quintet that recorded what is considered the greatest Jazz recording; Kind Of Blue. These days he still drums in the Blue.