Grammy winner Skip Martin of Kool & the Gang and the Dazz Band releases his debut jazz CD Miles High . Are You Ready , the debut sing...

On the road since early March, Carlos Santa na and the Santana Band have already performed for many hundreds of thousands of fans this y...

JAZZ CHILL CORNER NEWSBITS .......... Chick Corea, David Benoit, Gary Burton, Sophie Milman and Chris Botti will headline the Cultural Tr...

Rainbow Promotions presents the 19th Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival August 11, 12 and 13, 2006. The Festival again takes place at the breat...

Medeski Martin & Wood and John Scofield have just teamed up again. Out Louder is their newest collaboration, scheduled f or release S...

I.E.W. Video, a leading home video label and producer of jazz, performing arts, and pop music programs, announced the July 2006 DVD release ...

R&B @ JAZZ IN THE TWIN CITIES - A listing of upoming r&b & jazz concerts... Arturo Sandoval @ Dakota Jazz Club, Oct. 1-2 Ben Ha...

Jazz Chill Corner Newsbits ……….The 23rd Annual Stockholm Jazz Festival was being held on the small island of Skeppsholmen in downtown Stockh...

Grammy nominated and platinum recording artist Ruben Studdard will release his long awaited sophomore R&B/soul album, THE RETURN , on J...

EMI Music's legendary jazz label Blue Note Records has begun releasing ring tunes featuring riffs from some classic recordings by legend...

Continuing to bring smooth jazz to the Philadelphia Waterfront, WJJZ Smooth Jazz Summer Nights returns for a ninth season, to the Great Plaz...

For the past half-century, when the subject turns to the simple question, “What defines ‘cool’?” there has always been one perfect answer: M...

Fifteen years of Fourplay seems too good to be true -- yet with FOURPLAY X the world's top smooth jazz ensemble makes clear that the p...

Rafe Gomez (The Groove Boutique) is now working three gigs a week in addition to his nationally syndicated Groove Boutique show. He’s now s...

RADIO NEWS……….New York’s Smooth Jazz station, WCQD-FM scored a 2.9 rating in the spring 2006 Arbitron ratings. That places the station at nu...

Upcoming New Releases…Geffen will release te 2-CD compilation, The Definitive Collection from Patti LaBelle ……….Maralis Music will release ...

The sound of smooth soul music and slow jams comes to the 1st Annual Maryland Music Festival being held August 4-6, at the Show Place Arena....

Carlos Santana and the Santana Band will perform the last of their trio of extraordinary all-star concerts at the 40th annual presentation...

Malena Pérez's STARS is one of those rare gems that you find and tell the world about. Hailing from Atlanta's vibrant music scene ...

Thievery Corporation has added more shows to their fall touring schedule as they have just added is a pre-Lollapalooza show at the Metro in...

Academy and Grammy award-winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto returned to his electropop roots with the 2005 release of his 15th ...

New York’s CD101.9 (WQCD-FM) is sponsoring the upcoming Liberty Jazz Festival being held on September 9 and 10 at Liberty State Park in New ...

Candy Dulfer is planning to hit the road with more dates confirmed for the year (and beyond). First she heads off for a series of Californi...

12-time Grammy nominee India.Arie enters the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart this week at #1 with her third studio album Testimony: Vol. 1, ...

Tower Records, America's leading independent music and entertainment retailer, this week unveiled 'Tower Records Digital,' a mus...

AKMusique – La Vie Du Lounge Afterdark: Montreal (Various Artists) Alif Tree – French Cuisine An Exciting House Mix (Various Artists) Aqu...

First as the lead singer of the Miracles and writer of their biggest hit, Love Machine , and later as a solo artist singing hits like the E...

The Brazilian Girls’ new album, Talk To La Bomb , will have a release date of September 12 on the Verve Forecast label. The group is curren...

Beat Kaestli will play at The Bacchus Room in New York City on July 1, this after returning from a promotional tour for his new CD, Happy, ...

New from J, Epic and Legacy Records is the Luther Vandross compilation set The Ultimate Luther Vandross . The new CD will offer two previo...

Super-group The Clarke Duke Project are in the midst of a major US city and world-wide swing in celebration of 25 years since they united i...

Wayman Tisdale's new release Way Up! features special guests Eric Benet, Jonathan Butler, George Duke, Bob James, Jeff Lorber, Dave ...

It’s been a while since we’ve reported on the latest and releases, so here goes a list of the titles we think might be of interest to you fr...