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Features selections from their most popular themed shows and CD album releases. Classic tunes from songwriters Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin, and Richard Rodgers.

Jim Kanas, consummate jazz and folk guitarist, will perform with the Jim Kanas Trio at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

PENGUINS When "March of the Penguins" came to town, I went with my wife to our local theater and was dismayed to see the evening showing had drawn an army of tiny tots.

All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Mariano's birthday today! Charlie Mariano Charlie Mariano is an American jazz alto saxophonist.

Artistry in Rhythm, the Ken Poston / Los Angeles Jazz Institute's 2009 homage to the renowned bandleader Stan Kenton , was held October 8-11 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel.

West Coast jazz pianist Jim Martinez and his jazz trio will present "A Jazzy Christmas" Nov.

The University of North Texas Press has confirmed publication of a new book on Stan, with an anticipated publishing date of Spring, 2010.

This Piano Jazz is an encore of a program with the late saxophonist Bud Shank, one of the most original musical voices of the post-Charlie Parker generation.

Last updated on Sunday, Sep. 06, 2009 09:48PM EDT C hris Connor, a smoky-voiced jazz vocalist who had numerous hits during a career that spanned more than 50 years, has died at 81.

Here's a simple little name-the-year quiz. Jazz pianist and band leader Stan Kenton is seen talking with assistant Band Boy Mort Lewis, somewhere in the vicinity of the University of North Texas.

Interview: Howard Rumsey If you dig West Coast jazz, you have bassist Howard Rumsey to thank.

Connor died on Saturday in New Jersey. Additional details surrounding her illness were unavailable as WENN went to press.

DENTON , Texas -- Leon Breeden , who was director of the University of North Texas Jazz Studies Program and the One O'Clock Lab Band from 1959 to 1981, will be awarded an honorary doctorate at UNT's doctoral commencement ceremony.

"Drummers rule," says Gary Hobbs, who will direct the Stan Kenton Tribute Band from his drum chair at the 28th annual Mt.

This excerpt appears in New York Nights: Performing, Producing and Writing in Gotham .

This excerpt appears in New York Nights: Performing, Producing and Writing in Gotham .

Susie Jones, president of the Gresham/Mt. Hood Jazz Association, has learned one thing over the past few years.

Verve Music Group This is music that may be impossible to listen to while remaining still.

Susie Jones, president of the Gresham/Mt. Hood Jazz Association, has learned one thing over the past few years.

Jazz singer Anita O'Day died of a heart attack in 2006. She had possessed one of the music world's most distinctive voices, the product of a botched childhood tonsillectomy that left her without a uvula, and thus, without vibrato or the ability to sustain notes.