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Bassist Mark Stoermer, singer Brandon Flowers and drummer Ronnie Vannucci of The Killers.

The Original Big 7 Social Aid & Pleasure Club with the Original Big 7 Junior Steppers second-line with a brass band down Pauger Street as part of the 7th Ward Festival in celebration of Mother's Day in 2009.

Herricks High School recently hosted its 4th annual jazz festival. Each year bands from around Long Island perform in the Herricks High School auditorium for family, friends, peers, as well as receive a clinic from a renowned jazz musician and educator.

Rudresh Mahanthappa creates an explosive blend of South Indian classical music and progressive jazz.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - Police have arrested Akein Scott, a 19-year-old suspect in the Mother's Day shooting in the US city of New Orleans that injured 19 people, including two 10-year-old kids.

Lisa Hilton offered the perfect Getaway for her fans at Catalina's Bar & Grill in Hollywood, CA recently.

Imagine how many interviews Liza Minnelli has done in a career that's spanned more than 50 years and brought her an Academy Award, four Tony Awards, an Emmy Award and a Grammy Legend Award.

In fact, it took Napoleon Maddox and his Cincinnati-based genre-defying Hip Hop/Jazz/Rock/Soul collective three years after their 1996 formation to drop their auspicious debut, Landmines.

Looking for a different type of community event, the Eustis Chamber of Commerce got creative and came up with the BlueZberry Fest & All That Jazz.

Woody Herman , who would have turned 100 on Thursday, bloomed early and late - and then later still.

Short spent consequential time during his last four decades as resident singer-pianist at the Caf Carlyle on the Upper East Side, where his "gravelly baritone and perfect diction" demonstrated the triumph of character over beauty.

ZOE SALDANA is begging NINA SIMONE devotees to hold off on criticising her for signing up to play the jazz legend in a new biopic until they see the film because she's determined to do the role justice.

New jazz bands always seem to be germinating new jazz music in Edmonton thanks to the city's busy student population.

May is a great time in Paris, as it kicks off the free music season. It all begins with the annual Festival Jazz Saint-Germain-des-Pres, a fortnight-plus fiesta of all forms of the art from swing to gypsy to modern jazz in an assortment of concerts all over Paris .

Hailing from American Fork, Utah, the Crescent Super Band has won numerous awards from Downbeat Magazine and performed around the world.

The Hartselle Fine Arts Center will host an Afternoon of Jazz & Art Sunday May 19 at 2:30 p.m. at the Hartselle Fine Arts Center.

Salmon Arm band Babalu play some Afro-Cuban jazz, salsa, and other Latin American rhythms at the Vernon Jazz Club Saturday.

"I realized that both of these are dance, party music," Hangout Fest performers tell SPIN.

Would three inches of mud deter you from seeing your favorite band? It didn't stop some 425,000 music fans from loving every minute of the 44th annual Jazz Fest in New Orleans , despite pouring rain on three out of seven festival days that quickly turned the gorgeous grassy lawns at the Fair Grounds Race Course into pure mud pits.