Now in its 16th year, the London’s Meltdown festival was overseen by Ornette Coleman, and he also picked all the artists that played there. He picked artists such as: Charlie Haden James Blood Ulmer Acoustic Ladyland Marc Ribot Keiran Hebden & Steve Reid Yoko Ono The Bad Plus The Roots Patti Smith Yo La Tengo [...]

Here’s some info about an upcoming jazz concert festival and where you can get tickets. The West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts Festival will start tomorrow and run thru Sunday. Some of the headliners will be WAR, The Mingus Big Band, Average White Band, Tower of Power, and Roy Ayers. This festival is funky and [...]

On June 29th “The Blue Note jazz Club will host a benefit for JazzReach featuring two of jazz’s most accomplished and celebrated musicians – Ravi Coltrane and Jack DeJohnette – along side bassist Kenny Davis and harpist Brandee Younger” their website says. Ravi Coltrane has always been a favorite contemporary sax player of mine. I [...]