Trumpeter, composer, and Nashville Jazz Orchestra (NJO) director Jim Williamson has a concise, yet extensive answer whenever people ask him what type of music is his large group's specialty: "I tell them we're a repertory band, kind of like the jazz... Full Article at Nashville Scene

Lebrew Jones performs a drum solo at Alto Music in Middletown Friday night Nov. 20, 2009.TH-R /JOHN PERTEL A day after his release from prison, Lebrew Jones, a man who spent 22 years behind bars for a murder that he, the victim's mother and a growing... Full Article at Times Herald-Record

As Latin-jazz legends go, saxophonist Ray Santos ranks high on the list. Few living Latin-jazz artists today can claim to have played in and arranged for the bands of Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez. Full Article at All About Jazz

TheDefendersOnline is paying tribute to Black Music with special perspectives by three top writers on Black Rock, Hip-Hop Planet, and a coming-of-age retrospective of The Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Full Article at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

New York, November -- Wolfgang's Vault, longtime home of the rarest archive of live music recordings for free streaming and for download, has announced the addition of the Newport Jazz collection and posted Count Basie and His Orchestra, the first... Full Article at All About Jazz

Courtesy of the artistNoel Hogan, Dolores O’Riordan, Mike Hogan and Fergal Lawler of The Cranberries. Full Article at NJ.com