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Have a first taste of Mal Waldron's 'Searching in Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert,' due out on Tompkins Square Records on Sept. 23.

Get your own copy of this album at SwapaCD.com. If you're not yet a member, your first 2 cds and membership are free! All you have to do is post 10 cds you want to get rid of. Visit the site to find a huge selection of music!

PopMatters jazz critic Will Layman rounds up the best new jazz albums of recent vintage, including some thoughts on Paul McCartney and Ron Carter.

On a recent morning on the Upper West Side, bassist and bandleader Ron Carter sat on the far end of a plush, rust-colored sofa in his spacious 10th-fl

The famously curious musician and bandleader will celebrate his milestone birthday with a career-spanning Carnegie Hall concert.

Charles Mingus at 100: The legacy of the late jazz giant also looms large in rock, hip-hop, film and beyond

This month The Jazz Show will be presenting a Charles Mingus Jazz Feature on the four Mondays in April. This is to honor the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Charles Mingus Jr who was born in Nogales, Arizona on April 22,1922. Tonights recording is an early mature statement by The Charles Mingus Jazz Composers Workshop which later became the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop. Mingus music here reflected a more formal stance with a lot music written out and scored coupled with improvisation. Mingus l...

Tonights Jazz Feature honours Black History Month and throughout February well spotlight music that has social significance. Well open with a piece by drummer Max Roachs band from 1980 first. The piece is a composition by Mr. Roach, and its called "The Dream/ Its Time". It features the Roach Quartet interspersed by sections of Dr. Martin Luther Kings Famous "I have a dream" speech. The band includes Max Roach on drums with Cecil Bridgewater on trumpet, Odean Pope on tenor s...

Read Alan Licht’s full transcript of musician, author and critic Greg Tate’s Invisible Jukebox interview from January 2004 for The Wire 240