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The King Khan & BBQ Show: Two heads, twelve arms and a whole lotta debauchery. Details: The King Khan & BBQ Show 8 p.m. Thursday, November 12.

THE STEVE REID ENSEMBLE 9th November 2009 @ The Jazz Cafe 5, Parkway, Camden, London, NW1 7PG 14 from seetickets.co.uk Doors: 7pm The Steve Reid Ensemble are set to play an exclusive London show at The Jazz Cafe on Monday 9th November.

The saying might go something like, "Those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it." For composer/bandleader Mike Reed, his knowledge of jazz history allows him the freedom to cherish and exalt the past.

Cuneiform : Rune 152 . Chris McGregor : piano Harry Beckett : trumpet Mark Charig : trumpet Nick Evans : trombone Mongezi Feza : trumpet Malcolm Griffiths : trombone Harry Miller : double bass Louis Moholo : drums Mike Osborne : alto saxophone Evan Parker : tenor saxophone Dudu Pukwana : alto saxophone Gary Windo : tenor saxophone The Brotherhood ...

DJ Gilles Peterson's stash of jazz album cover art has been made into a book. Charlotte Cripps flips through some of the best Click here for more rare jazz album cover art A collection of rare jazz cover artwork of the 1970s has been brought together by the DJ Gilles Peterson and independent jazz label boss Stuart Baker of Soul Jazz Records.

It's not easy to get on Leo Records. The U.K. label, founded 30 years ago by Leo Feigin, is a bastion of the avant-jazz/improv scene, releasing Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra and Eugene Chadbourne.

HYPNOTIC Brass Ensemble are the ultimate band of brothers. All eight of the group's brass players are sons of jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran, who played in Sun Ra's legendary Arkestra.

Leigh Harris left her native New Orleans four years ago, after Hurricane Katrina swept through.

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity The Stone presents A Very Special 'Double" CD Release Pereformance!! On Ka'a Davis with the Famous Original Djuke Music Players Friday Midnight October 23rd 'On Ka'a Davis and his band of musical magicians!!" A Special Midnight Concert to celebrate On's two new releases on Live Wired and Tzadik.

All About Jazz is celebrating Von Freeman's birthday today! Von Freeman Influential elder jazz tenor saxophonist originally became known for his work with the Horace Henderson Group during the Late 1940s, and Sun Ra\'s band in the early \'50s. During that period... more Follow Von Freeman Visit website Von Freeman at All About Jazz .

The show , from a series called "The Chill Room" is a mixture of jazz musician Sun Ra's music/performances and a lecture he gave at Berkeley as part of his "The Black Man in the Cosmos" class.

Wild horses were not obstacles getting into Page Auditorium, but they were about the only things missing: Duke University's homecoming football game had a kickoff time matching the start of a double bill with the Sun Ra Arkestra and the Mingus Big Band, so West Campus looked like some mad maze teeming with cars and pedestrians in every direction.

Remarkably, the latest batch of releases from Leo Records marked the labels thirtieth anniversary.

The first real conversation I ever had with Lars Gotrich was about the Peter Brotzmann and Han Bennink U.S. duo tour of 2007.

These six concerts reveal the sparks that fly when structure and improvisation come into contact.

When Ben Opie gets involved in a jazz project, it will be unlike few seen around here.

Kate Gosselin believes that "Aliens have taken him away." Miyuki Hatoyama , wife of Japan's prime minister-elect, wrote in her book, Very Strange Things I Encountered , that she was abducted by aliens 20 years ago and taken in a triangular-shaped UFO to Venus , a green beautiful place.

For the past 25 years, Yo La Tengo have been making noise-pop with an eclectic set of reference points, ranging from Beach Boys pop to Sun Ra space-jazz, and from Sonic Youth guitar squall to restrained lounge music.

Emigre radio presenter and record label owner Leo Feigin pictured on a visit to St.